# Yale University Info API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-info-api/  
**Provider:** Yale University — https://apis.io/providers/yale/  
**Base URL:** https://lux.collections.yale.edu  
**Documentation:** https://lux.collections.yale.edu/

Yale University Info API is one of 13 APIs that [Yale University](https://apis.io/providers/yale/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Info. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Deployment identity, version and metrics

## Operations (4)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/api/info/version` | Get the Dataverse software version of this deployment |
| GET | `/api/v1/info/server` | Get the canonical hostname of this installation |
| GET | `/api/info/metrics/datasets` | Count published datasets |
| GET | `/api/metadatablocks/{name}` | Retrieve a metadata block definition |

## Machine-readable artifacts (11)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/openapi/yale-info-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/examples/yale-dataverse-search-example.json
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/examples/yale-dataverse-info-version-example.json
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/conformance/yale-domain-standards.yml
- **Documentation** — https://iiif.io/guides/guides/collections.library.yale.edu/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/yalelibrary
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/yalelibrary/yul-dc-camerata
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/examples/yale-iiif-manifest-example.json
- **Documentation** — https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fauth.yale.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/examples/yale-shibboleth-idp-metadata-example.xml

## Other Yale University APIs (12)

- [LUX Collections Discovery — Search API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-search-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Documents API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-documents-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Facets API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-facets-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Related API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-related-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Configuration API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-configuration-api/)
- [Yale API Portal — Portal APIs](https://apis.io/apis/yale/portal/)
- [Yale Courses Web Service v3](https://apis.io/apis/yale/courses/)
- [Yale Enterprise (SOA) Services](https://apis.io/apis/yale/enterprise-soa/)
- [EliScholar OAI-PMH (bepress Digital Commons tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/yale/elischolar/)
- [Yale Course Search and University Publications (CourseLeaf tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/yale/course-catalog/)
- [Yale University Federation API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-federation-api/)
- [Yale University IIIF API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-iiif-api/)

## Tags

Info

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-info-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/yale/.