University of British Columbia · Example Payload

Ubc Get Dataverse Example

Representative response from GET /api/dataverses/{alias} on the UBC Abacus repository, returning a single dataverse collection.

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Ubc Get Dataverse Example is an example object payload from University of British Columbia, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

x-provenancedescriptionstatusdata

Example Payload

{
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "generated",
    "source": "REPRESENTATIVE, NOT CAPTURED. Hand-shaped to the Dataverse 5.9 response envelope; not a recorded response from https://abacus.library.ubc.ca. Treat the values as illustrative.",
    "x-operator": "institution"
  },
  "description": "Representative response from GET /api/dataverses/{alias} on the UBC Abacus repository, returning a single dataverse collection.",
  "status": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": 1,
    "alias": "abacus",
    "name": "Abacus Dataverse Network",
    "affiliation": "University of British Columbia Library",
    "dataverseContacts": [
      {
        "displayOrder": 0,
        "contactEmail": "abacus.data@ubc.ca"
      }
    ],
    "permissionRoot": true,
    "description": "Abacus is UBC Library's research-data repository, including the UBC Open Data collection.",
    "dataverseType": "ORGANIZATIONS_INSTITUTIONS",
    "creationDate": "2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}