University of Pittsburgh

Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API

WPRDC is a regional open data portal led by the University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) at the University of Pittsburgh, in partnership with Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh and funded by the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Its own Data Use Agreement names the University as the operating party. The portal runs CKAN 2.11.6 on infrastructure the project operates itself, with a local `wprdctheme` extension alongside datastore, spatialdata, dcat and datapusher_plus, and it exposes the CKAN Action API keyless for read plus a DCAT-US 1.1 catalog at /data.json and JSON-LD at /catalog.jsonld. Recorded as institution-operated because Pitt runs the deployment — but the API contract itself is CKAN's upstream design, not Pitt's engineering, so no generic CKAN OpenAPI is saved under this institution's name.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-pittsburgh:wprdc-ckan
name: Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API
description: WPRDC is a regional open data portal led by the University Center for Social and Urban Research
  (UCSUR) at the University of Pittsburgh, in partnership with Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh
  and funded by the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Its own Data Use Agreement names the University as
  the operating party. The portal runs CKAN 2.11.6 on infrastructure the project operates itself, with
  a local `wprdctheme` extension alongside datastore, spatialdata, dcat and datapusher_plus, and it exposes
  the CKAN Action API keyless for read plus a DCAT-US 1.1 catalog at /data.json and JSON-LD at /catalog.jsonld.
  Recorded as institution-operated because Pitt runs the deployment — but the API contract itself is CKAN's
  upstream design, not Pitt's engineering, so no generic CKAN OpenAPI is saved under this institution's
  name.
humanURL: https://data.wprdc.org
baseURL: https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Civic Data
- Regional Data
- DCAT
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: https://data.wprdc.org/about names WPRDC "a project led by the University Center
  of Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) at the University of Pittsburgh". /api/3/action/status_show returns
  CKAN 2.11.6 carrying the site-specific `wprdctheme` extension, which is a locally operated and locally
  customised deployment rather than a hosted tenancy; the host resolves to an EC2 instance the project
  runs, not to a vendor's shared platform. The registrable domain is wprdc.org rather than pitt.edu because
  the portal belongs to the three-way partnership, which is why the cohort audit could not attribute it
  from the hostname alone.
x-contract-designer: CKAN (open source), not the University of Pittsburgh
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://data.wprdc.org
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/university-of-pittsburgh-wprdc-ckan-action-envelope.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-pittsburgh-wprdc-ckan-status-show.json
- type: OpenData
  url: https://data.wprdc.org/data.json