Brown University · Schema

CollectionRef

EducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited StatesIvy LeagueResearchResearch RepositoryDigital RepositoryLibraryIIIFIdentity FederationCourse CatalogResearch Computing

Properties

Name Type Description
pid string
id string
db_id integer
name string
description string
tags array
json_uri string Collection API URL for this collection.
uri string Human web view of this collection.
thumbnail_url string
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JSON Schema

brown-bdr-collectionref.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brown/refs/heads/main/json-schema/brown-bdr-collectionref.json",
  "title": "CollectionRef",
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-30",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "Derived from openapi/brown-bdr-api-openapi.yml and openapi/brown-bdr-iiif-openapi.yml, which were themselves derived from Brown's own API documentation wiki plus live probes on 2026-08-30. Brown publishes no JSON Schema. Not a Brown-authored artifact.",
    "x-operator": "institution"
  },
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "pid": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "id": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "db_id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "json_uri": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Collection API URL for this collection."
    },
    "uri": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Human web view of this collection."
    },
    "thumbnail_url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri"
    }
  }
}

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