University of Melbourne Datasets API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University of Melbourne — Spatial Urban Data Observatory (SUDO) Datasets API
  version: v2
  description: "Read surface of the Spatial Urban Data Observatory (SUDO), an institution-operated GeoNode deployment run by the University of Melbourne on its own `eresearch.unimelb.edu.au` host. SUDO is the one genuinely institution-operated, publicly callable API found in this profile: an unauthenticated JSON collection API over 7,417 spatial datasets, with OGC-style bounding-box geometry, DOIs, licences and download links on every record.\nThis document was DERIVED from live probes on 2026-08-19, not from a contract the University publishes. Only endpoints that returned HTTP 200 on that date are described. The University of Melbourne does not publish an OpenAPI description of SUDO; GeoNode's own `/api/v2/openapi` and `/api/v2/swagger.json` both return 404 on this deployment.\nKNOWN DEFECTS, recorded rather than smoothed over:\n  * TLS certificate mismatch — https://sudo.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au\n    presents a certificate whose subject and only SAN is\n    `staging.unimelb-sudo.cloud.edu.au`. Standard clients reject the\n    connection; every probe below required certificate verification to be\n    disabled. The page title served is also `staging.unimelb-sudo.cloud.edu.au`,\n    so the production hostname appears to be fronting a staging instance.\n  * Intermittent timeouts — `/api/v2/categories` timed out at 60s on\n    2026-08-19 while `/api/v2/datasets` and `/api/v2/` answered normally."
  contact:
    name: University of Melbourne eResearch
    url: https://sudo.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au/about/
  x-operator: institution
  x-software: GeoNode (OSGeo, GPL-3.0)
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-19'
    method: derived
    source: Live probes of https://sudo.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au/api/v2/ , /api/v2/datasets?page_size=1 and /api/v2/datasets/999999999 on 2026-08-19. Schema fields enumerated from the actual dataset record returned.
servers:
- url: https://sudo.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au/api/v2
  description: Production hostname (see TLS defect in info.description)
tags:
- name: Datasets
  description: Spatial datasets held in the observatory
paths:
  /datasets:
    get:
      tags:
      - Datasets
      summary: List spatial datasets
      description: 'Page through the observatory''s spatial datasets. Verified 200 with `total: 7417` on 2026-08-19. No authentication required and no rate-limit headers are returned.'
      operationId: listDatasets
      parameters:
      - name: page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          default: 1
      - name: page_size
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          default: 10
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A page of datasets
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DatasetPage'
  /datasets/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Datasets
      summary: Retrieve one dataset
      description: Retrieve a single dataset by primary key. The 404 shape below was verified against `/api/v2/datasets/999999999` on 2026-08-19.
      operationId: getDataset
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: One dataset
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  dataset:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Dataset'
        '404':
          description: Not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
              example:
                detail: Not found.
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
    Dataset:
      type: object
      description: Field set enumerated from a live record on 2026-08-19. Only fields actually present on that record are described; types are inferred from the observed values and are marked as such.
      properties:
        pk:
          type: integer
        uuid:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        abstract:
          type: string
        raw_abstract:
          type: string
        purpose:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        name:
          type: string
        resource_type:
          type: string
          example: dataset
        subtype:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        doi:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        date:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        date_type:
          type: string
        created:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        last_updated:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        language:
          type: string
        category:
          type:
          - object
          - 'null'
        keywords:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        tkeywords:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        regions:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        license:
          type:
          - object
          - 'null'
        constraints_other:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        data_quality_statement:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        supplemental_information:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        attribution:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        owner:
          type: object
        poc:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        metadata_author:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        publisher:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        custodian:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        distributor:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        originator:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        principal_investigator:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        processor:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        resource_provider:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        resource_user:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        bbox_polygon:
          type: object
          description: GeoJSON Polygon
        ll_bbox_polygon:
          type: object
          description: GeoJSON Polygon
          lat/long: null
        extent:
          type: object
        srid:
          type: string
          example: EPSG:4326
        spatial_representation_type:
          type:
          - object
          - 'null'
        has_time:
          type: boolean
        has_elevation:
          type: boolean
        temporal_extent_start:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date-time
        temporal_extent_end:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date-time
        time_regex:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        elevation_regex:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        is_mosaic:
          type: boolean
        is_approved:
          type: boolean
        is_published:
          type: boolean
        is_copyable:
          type: boolean
        advertised:
          type: boolean
        featured:
          type: boolean
        favorite:
          type: boolean
        metadata_only:
          type: boolean
        metadata_uploaded_preserve:
          type: boolean
        processed:
          type: boolean
        state:
          type: string
        store:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        workspace:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        charset:
          type: string
        edition:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        group:
          type:
          - object
          - 'null'
        maintenance_frequency:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        restriction_code_type:
          type:
          - object
          - 'null'
        sourcetype:
          type: string
        ptype:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        polymorphic_ctype_id:
          type: integer
        default_style:
          type:
          - object
          - 'null'
        styles:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        featureinfo_custom_template:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        alternate:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        perms:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        rating:
          type: integer
        popular_count:
          type: integer
        share_count:
          type: integer
        detail_url:
          type: string
        embed_url:
          type: string
        thumbnail_url:
          type: string
        download_url:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        download_urls:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        link:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        links:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        assets:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        raw_constraints_other:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        raw_data_quality_statement:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        raw_purpose:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        raw_supplemental_information:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
    DatasetPage:
      type: object
      required:
      - links
      - total
      - page
      - page_size
      - datasets
      properties:
        links:
          type: object
          properties:
            next:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              format: uri
            previous:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              format: uri
        total:
          type: integer
          example: 7417
        page:
          type: integer
          example: 1
        page_size:
          type: integer
          example: 1
        datasets:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Dataset'