University of British Columbia · Schema

UBC Abacus Dataverse DataFile

A single file belonging to a dataset in UBC Library's Abacus Dataverse repository. Field set derived from the live OpenAPI DataFile schema.

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
id	integer	Internal numeric database id of the file.
contentType	string	MIME content type of the file.
filesize	integer	Size of the file in bytes.
checksumType	string	Checksum algorithm, e.g. MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256.
checksumValue	string	Computed checksum value for integrity verification.
storageIdentifier	string
restricted	boolean	Whether the file is access-restricted.
deleted	boolean
markedAsDuplicate	boolean
duplicateFilename	string
rootDataFileId	integer
previousDataFileId	integer
publicationDate	string
createDate	string

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JSON Schema

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  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ubc/main/json-schema/ubc-datafile-schema.json",
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "Derived from openapi/_original/ubc-abacus-dataverse.yaml (Dataverse 5.9 contract served by UBC Library's Abacus repository at https://abacus.library.ubc.ca/openapi). The underlying object model is Dataverse software's; the deployment is UBC-operated.",
    "x-operator": "institution"
  },
  "title": "UBC Abacus Dataverse DataFile",
  "description": "A single file belonging to a dataset in UBC Library's Abacus Dataverse repository. Field set derived from the live OpenAPI DataFile schema.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Internal numeric database id of the file."
    },
    "contentType": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "MIME content type of the file."
    },
    "filesize": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Size of the file in bytes."
    },
    "checksumType": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Checksum algorithm, e.g. MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256.",
      "enum": [
        "MD5",
        "SHA1",
        "SHA256",
        "SHA512"
      ]
    },
    "checksumValue": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Computed checksum value for integrity verification."
    },
    "storageIdentifier": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "restricted": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the file is access-restricted."
    },
    "deleted": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "markedAsDuplicate": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "duplicateFilename": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "rootDataFileId": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "previousDataFileId": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "publicationDate": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "createDate": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": true
}