University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

UNC Digital Collections Search (OCLC CONTENTdm)

"Search the Special Collections", UNC University Library's discovery layer over its digitized special collections. A WordPress front at the root fronts an OCLC CONTENTdm 6.10 installation that handles /digital/ and all unmatched paths. This entry corrects an earlier profile that described dc.lib.unc.edu as running box-c: box-c is real and is UNC's own work, but its deployment is the Carolina Digital Repository at dcr.lib.unc.edu (recorded separately above), not this host. No keyless CONTENTdm API path was found in probing on 2026-08-30 — /digital/api/search/collection/all, /api/listJson/collections and /iiif/v3/collection/root all returned HTML or 404 from the CONTENTdm error handler.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:digital-collections
name: UNC Digital Collections Search (OCLC CONTENTdm)
description: '"Search the Special Collections", UNC University Library''s discovery layer over its digitized
  special collections. A WordPress front at the root fronts an OCLC CONTENTdm 6.10 installation that handles
  /digital/ and all unmatched paths. This entry corrects an earlier profile that described dc.lib.unc.edu
  as running box-c: box-c is real and is UNC''s own work, but its deployment is the Carolina Digital Repository
  at dcr.lib.unc.edu (recorded separately above), not this host. No keyless CONTENTdm API path was found
  in probing on 2026-08-30 — /digital/api/search/collection/all, /api/listJson/collections and /iiif/v3/collection/root
  all returned HTML or 404 from the CONTENTdm error handler.'
humanURL: https://dc.lib.unc.edu/
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'dc.lib.unc.edu CNAMEs to lookout.lib.unc.edu (152.2.176.89), so UNC runs the server
  — but the application, the URL scheme and any API contract are OCLC CONTENTdm''s, identified from the
  "CONTENTdm Version 6.10.0.473s/6.10.0.918w (c) OCLC" comment served on its own error pages. Recorded
  as tenant on the same principle as the Dataverse deployment: institution-hosted, vendor-contracted.'
tags:
- Digital Library
- Special Collections
- CONTENTdm
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://dc.lib.unc.edu/