University of Southampton

University of Southampton Catalogue API

DCAT catalogue of the datasets the service publishes.

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Operations 2

GET /dataset/data-catalog.ttl Retrieve the DCAT catalogue description #

GET /datasets.html Human-readable index of all published datasets #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University of Southampton Open Data Service (Linked Data)…
  version: '1.0'
  x-generated: '2026-08-30'
  x-method: derived
  x-source: Derived from live probes of data.southampton.ac.uk and id.southampton.ac.uk on 2026-08-30. URI dereferencing, format-extension content negotiation and dataset dump retrieval were each exercised against the running service. Captured responses are held in examples/open-data-dcat-catalog.ttl, examples/open-data-building-94A.ttl and examples/open-data-building-94A.rdf. The University publishes no OpenAPI description of this service; this document is API Evangelist's, not the institution's.
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: 'data.southampton.ac.uk is a CNAME to sni-vserver-02.soton.ac.uk (152.78.118.88) and id.southampton.ac.uk to websites-ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.118.28) — both inside the University''s own JANET address space and its own registrable domain. The catalogue''s own DCAT record names dcterms:publisher <http://id.southampton.ac.uk/>, typed as an aiiso:Institution labelled "University of Southampton". No vendor platform is involved: the FAQ states the service is built on Sesame, Grinder, rapper, Graphite and sparqllib, with Grinder written for this project at Southampton.'
  description: 'The University of Southampton Open Data Service, one of the longest-running institutional linked open data programmes in higher education and a genuine outlier in this cohort: it is institution-built, institution-hosted and institution-maintained, with no vendor contract behind it.'
  contact:
    name: University of Southampton Open Data Service
    url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  license:
    name: Open Government Licence
    url: http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence
servers:
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk
  description: Representation host. id.southampton.ac.uk URIs redirect here.
tags:
- name: Catalogue
  description: DCAT catalogue of the datasets the service publishes.
paths:
  /dataset/data-catalog.ttl:
    get:
      operationId: getCatalogTurtle
      summary: Retrieve the DCAT catalogue description
      description: 'The catalogue''s own record, as a dcat:Catalog. Verified 2026-08-30: 200, text/turtle, 4244 bytes. Also available as .rdf and .html. Beware the void:sparqlEndpoint assertion it carries — that endpoint is retired.'
      tags:
      - Catalogue
      responses:
        '200':
          description: DCAT catalogue in Turtle.
          content:
            text/turtle:
              schema:
                type: string
  /datasets.html:
    get:
      operationId: listDatasets
      summary: Human-readable index of all published datasets
      description: 'Verified 2026-08-30: 200, 14049 bytes, linking 22 dataset URIs under http://id.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/.'
      tags:
      - Catalogue
      responses:
        '200':
          description: HTML dataset index.
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string