University of Vienna

PHAIDRA object-basics API (University of Vienna)

Most important requests you'll need to manage digital objects in PHAIDRA

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 17

POST /picture/create Creates a picture object #
POST /audio/create Creates an audio object #
POST /video/create Creates a video object #
POST /document/create Creates a document object #
POST /unknown/create Creates a data object #
POST /collection/create Creates a collection #
POST /container/create Creates a container object #
GET /object/{pid}/info Get object info #
GET /object/{pid}/thumbnail Get the thumbnail image #
GET /object/{pid}/preview Get preview page #
GET /object/{pid}/download Download object's data #
GET /object/{pid}/get Get object's data #
POST /object/{pid}/metadata Edit object's metadata #
POST /object/{pid}/index Re-indexes object #
GET /object/{pid}/rights Retrieves the object access restrictions. This method expects authentication #
POST /object/{pid}/rights Saves the object's access restrictions #
POST /object/{pid}/delete Delete object #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://phaidra.org/docs/api/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-vienna-object-basics-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json

Other Resources

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x-json-structure
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
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x-json-structure
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
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x-example
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
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x-example
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
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x-spectral-ruleset
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
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x-vocabulary
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
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x-json-ld-context
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
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GitHub
https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation

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OpenAPI Specification

university-of-vienna-object-basics-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: PHAIDRA Object Basics API
  version: '3.0'
  description: Documentation of the PHAIDRA API.
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
servers:
- description: University of Vienna PHAIDRA
  url: https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/
- description: PHAIDRA Sandbox
  url: https://sandbox.phaidra.org/api/
tags:


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