# Carolina Digital Repository Services API (box-c)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/cdr-services-api/  
**Provider:** University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/  
**Base URL:** https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/services/api  
**Documentation:** https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/aboutRepository

Carolina Digital Repository Services API (box-c) is one of 10 APIs that [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Digital Library, IIIF, Search, and Open-Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Public, keyless JSON API behind the Carolina Digital Repository, UNC Libraries' institutional repository for digitized special collections, theses, dissertations and research output. GET /services/api/search returns Solr-backed results over 2,102,332 indexed records with faceting, and the same service publishes IIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests (/services/api/iiif/v3/{id}/manifest) and IIIF Image API 3.0 image information (/services/api/iiif/v3/{id}/info.json). Errors are returned as RFC 7807 application/problem+json. The service is box-c — a Java/Spring application that UNC Libraries itself writes, tests and releases in the open at https://github.com/UNC-Libraries/box-c — so both the deployment and the contract are UNC's own engineering. Some administrative paths (/services/api/status) return 401 and are staff-only. There is no published API reference: the endpoints below were found by probe, and the source repository is the documentation.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/UNC-Libraries/box-c
- **Website** — https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-education-standards-conformance.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill APIs (9)

- [UNC Libraries Catalog Search API (TRLN Discovery / Blacklight)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/library-catalog-search/)
- [UNC Finding Aids Search API (Blacklight JSON:API)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/finding-aids-search/)
- [UNC Dataverse OAI-PMH Archive](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/dataverse-oai-pmh/)
- [UNC Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / InCommon)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Facilities SPOTS REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/facilities-spots/)
- [UNC Dataverse Native REST API (Dataverse deployment)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/dataverse-native-api/)
- [UNC Catalog Course Search API (CourseLeaf)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/course-catalog-search/)
- [UNC GIS Open Data Hub (ArcGIS Hub DCAT-US)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/gis-opendata/)
- [UNC Digital Collections Search (OCLC CONTENTdm)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/digital-collections/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Digital Library, IIIF, Search, Open-Source

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