University of Southern California

USC Digital Library API (Orange Logic Cortex)

A live, token-gated REST API on USC's own host running Orange Logic's Cortex digital asset platform. GET https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/API/search/v3.0/search?query=test&format=json returns 401 application/json with a fully formed Cortex envelope — APIRequestInfo naming ProviderVersion PRINCETON.R6.2293U.273257, ProviderIdentity USC-AWS-ORG-209, Module search, APIVersion v3.0 — and the message "you must be signed in to access to this functionality. Please request a token through the Authentication." /API/Authentication/v1.0/Login answers 405 to GET, confirming the auth resource exists. The deployment, the host, the 1.5 million DOIs it mints as DataCite client usc.dl and the collections themselves are USC's; the contract is Orange Logic's product API, identical across every Cortex customer, so no spec is saved under USC. Tokens are not self-service and there is no public API documentation on any USC host, so this surface is recorded but not readable.

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APIReference
https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/API/search/v3.0/search?query=test&format=json

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Website
https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: usc:digital-library-cortex
name: USC Digital Library API (Orange Logic Cortex)
x-operator: tenant
description: A live, token-gated REST API on USC's own host running Orange Logic's Cortex digital asset
  platform. GET https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/API/search/v3.0/search?query=test&format=json returns 401
  application/json with a fully formed Cortex envelope — APIRequestInfo naming ProviderVersion PRINCETON.R6.2293U.273257,
  ProviderIdentity USC-AWS-ORG-209, Module search, APIVersion v3.0 — and the message "you must be signed
  in to access to this functionality. Please request a token through the Authentication." /API/Authentication/v1.0/Login
  answers 405 to GET, confirming the auth resource exists. The deployment, the host, the 1.5 million DOIs
  it mints as DataCite client usc.dl and the collections themselves are USC's; the contract is Orange
  Logic's product API, identical across every Cortex customer, so no spec is saved under USC. Tokens are
  not self-service and there is no public API documentation on any USC host, so this surface is recorded
  but not readable.
humanURL: https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/
baseURL: https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/API/search/v3.0/search
tags:
- Research Repository
- Digital Collections
- Orange Logic
- Cortex
- Library
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/API/search/v3.0/search?query=test&format=json
- type: Website
  url: https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/