University of York · Example Payload
University Of York Digital Collections Search Example
Verbatim response from the University of York Digital Collections search API. Captured live; not edited except for pretty-printing.
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University Of York Digital Collections Search Example is an example object payload from University of York, with 7 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
Top-level fields
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Example Payload
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