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Ubc Open Collections Items Example

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Ubc Open Collections Items Example is an example object payload from University of British Columbia, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

_provenanceresponse

Example Payload

{
  "_provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "probed",
    "source": "Live GET against https://oc-index.library.ubc.ca on 2026-08-19; response body captured verbatim.",
    "x-operator": "institution",
    "url": "https://oc-index.library.ubc.ca/collections/berkpost/items?limit=2"
  },
  "response": {
    "http_code": 200,
    "endpoint": "GET: /collections/berkpost/items",
    "api_code": 3000,
    "api_text": "Get All Items | Hint: data.length = 0 === empty collection | API Version: 1",
    "user_ip": "141.157.211.19",
    "data": [
      {
        "_index": "cdm.berkpost-2022-11-09",
        "_id": "1.0001240",
        "title": "[Amerika is devouring its children]",
        "creator": "Belloli, Jay",
        "type": "Still Image",
        "dateAvailable": "2009-02-01T00:00:00Z",
        "ubc_date_sort": "1970-12-31 AD",
        "ubc_internal_item_last_ingested": "2022-11-09 07:50:32",
        "ubc_internal_repo_handle": "622"
      },
      {
        "_index": "cdm.berkpost-2022-11-09",
        "_id": "1.0001116",
        "title": "[Kent State reaction]",
        "creator": "[Unknown]",
        "type": "Still Image",
        "dateAvailable": "2009-02-01T00:00:00Z",
        "ubc_date_sort": "1973-12-31 AD",
        "ubc_internal_item_last_ingested": "2022-11-09 07:52:25",
        "ubc_internal_repo_handle": "752"
      }
    ]
  }
}