University of Reading

Talis Aspire Online Reading Lists (tenant)

The university's online reading list service, a Talis Aspire tenant at reading.rl.talis.com whose canonical institution URI is http://readinglists.reading.ac.uk/. Genuinely machine-readable: /index.json returned 200 application/json on 2026-09-01, serving RDF/JSON in the AIISO vocabulary with aiiso:name "University of Reading" and the organisational unit tree beneath it. The data — which modules read which resources — is the university's; the platform and its contract are Talis's, so only the relationship is recorded here.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-reading:talis-aspire-reading-lists
name: Talis Aspire Online Reading Lists (tenant)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The university''s online reading list service, a Talis Aspire tenant at reading.rl.talis.com
  whose canonical institution URI is http://readinglists.reading.ac.uk/. Genuinely machine-readable: /index.json
  returned 200 application/json on 2026-09-01, serving RDF/JSON in the AIISO vocabulary with aiiso:name
  "University of Reading" and the organisational unit tree beneath it. The data — which modules read which
  resources — is the university''s; the platform and its contract are Talis''s, so only the relationship
  is recorded here.'
humanURL: https://reading.rl.talis.com/
baseURL: https://reading.rl.talis.com/index.json
tags:
- Reading Lists
- Library
- Linked Data
- Talis Aspire
- Tenant
properties:
- type: API
  url: https://reading.rl.talis.com/index.json