University of Southampton Datasets API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University Of Southampton Datasets API
  x-generated: '2026-08-30'
  x-method: derived
  x-operator: institution
  x-refined-note:
  - x-operator-evidence differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  - x-source differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Datasets across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: university-of-southampton-eprints-rest-openapi.yml, university-of-southampton-open-data-linked-data-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/rest
  description: ePrints Soton REST base, University of Southampton
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk
  description: Representation host. id.southampton.ac.uk URIs redirect here.
tags:
- name: Datasets
  description: Enumeration of the repository's exposed datasets.
paths:
  /:
    get:
      operationId: listDatasets
      summary: List the datasets this repository exposes
      description: 'Returns an HTML index naming the available datasets. Verified 2026-08-30: 200, 524 bytes, listing eprint, user and subject.'
      tags:
      - Datasets
      responses:
        '200':
          description: HTML index of datasets.
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
        '401':
          description: Anubis proof-of-work bot challenge, keyed off a browser-like User-Agent.
    servers:
    - url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/rest
      description: ePrints Soton REST base, University of Southampton
  /dataset/{datasetId}/latest.{format}:
    get:
      operationId: getDatasetDump
      summary: Retrieve the current bulk dump of one dataset
      description: Verified 2026-08-30 against data-catalog (200, 46377 bytes), university-timetable (200, 166536 bytes), printers (200, 337978 bytes) and workstation-opening (200, 277689 bytes). Dumps are unpaginated and some are large — bus-info was still streaming past 9.9 MB of a declared 21.1 MB at a 25-second timeout — so clients should stream rather than buffer.
      tags:
      - Datasets
      parameters:
      - name: datasetId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Dataset slug as listed in the catalogue.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - amenities
          - building-portals
          - bus-info
          - cls-extras
          - data-catalog
          - disabledgo
          - easting-northing
          - events-diary
          - facilities
          - markers
          - org
          - photos
          - places
          - printers
          - profile
          - room-bookings
          - room-features
          - room-shapes
          - services
          - transport-locations
          - university-timetable
          - workstation-clusters
          - workstation-opening
      - name: format
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Serialisation to return.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - ttl
          - rdf
          - nt
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The dataset dump in the requested serialisation.
          content:
            text/turtle:
              schema:
                type: string
            application/rdf+xml:
              schema:
                type: string
        '404':
          description: No such dataset or format. Verified as a genuine 404 rather than a soft-200 — /dataset.html, /buildings.html and /termdates.html each returned 404 with a 3996-byte error body on 2026-08-30.
    servers:
    - url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk
      description: Representation host. id.southampton.ac.uk URIs redirect here.
x-refined-from:
- university-of-southampton-eprints-rest-openapi.yml
- university-of-southampton-open-data-linked-data-openapi.yml