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Epfl News Structure

JSON Structure for an EPFL Actu News item.

Type: object Properties: 21 Required: 4

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EpflNews is a JSON Structure definition published by EPFL, describing 21 properties, of which 4 are required. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0 meta-schema.

Properties

id lang title subtitle text order publish_date visual_url thumbnail_url visual_description video channel category news_url themes publics faculties projects funding references is_under_cc_license

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0

JSON Structure

{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/main/json-structure/epfl-news-structure.json",
  "name": "EpflNews",
  "description": "JSON Structure for an EPFL Actu News item.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "int32"
    },
    "lang": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "subtitle": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "text": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "order": {
      "type": "int32"
    },
    "publish_date": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "visual_url": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "thumbnail_url": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "visual_description": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "video": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "channel": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "is_active": {
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      }
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "en_label": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "fr_label": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "de_label": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    },
    "news_url": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "themes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "publics": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "faculties": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "projects": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "funding": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "references": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "is_under_cc_license": {
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id",
    "title",
    "publish_date",
    "news_url"
  ],
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "json-schema/epfl-news-schema.json",
    "operator": "institution",
    "operator_basis": "describes payloads served from EPFL's own registrable domain epfl.ch"
  }
}