University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Deep Blue Data REST API

Public REST API for Deep Blue Data, the University of Michigan Library's open repository for research datasets produced by U-M researchers, with DataCite DOI persistent identifiers. Documented publicly at deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/rest-api. Could not be described here: every request to deepblue.lib.umich.edu from an automated client — including the documentation page and /data/api/v1/works — returns a Cloudflare managed challenge (HTTP 403, body "Just a moment..."). That is a limit on our probing, not a finding about the API. No paths, parameters or schemas have been guessed; no OpenAPI is emitted for this surface until it can actually be read.

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https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/rest-api

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-michigan-ann-arbor:deep-blue-data
name: Deep Blue Data REST API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: deepblue.lib.umich.edu is under umich.edu. The repository is Hyrax/Samvera software
  run by the University of Michigan Library; the DOIs are minted under the U-M Library DataCite membership
  (symbol UMICH).
description: 'Public REST API for Deep Blue Data, the University of Michigan Library''s open repository
  for research datasets produced by U-M researchers, with DataCite DOI persistent identifiers. Documented
  publicly at deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/rest-api. Could not be described here: every request to deepblue.lib.umich.edu
  from an automated client — including the documentation page and /data/api/v1/works — returns a Cloudflare
  managed challenge (HTTP 403, body "Just a moment..."). That is a limit on our probing, not a finding
  about the API. No paths, parameters or schemas have been guessed; no OpenAPI is emitted for this surface
  until it can actually be read.'
humanURL: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/rest-api
baseURL: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- REST
- Open Data
- Library
- DataCite
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/rest-api