Institution

An institution record returned by the Cambridge Lookup/Ibis web service API.

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchUnited KingdomRussell GroupIdentityIdentity FederationAPI GatewayDeveloper PortalResearch DataOpen AccessResearch RepositoryLibraryDigital Collections

Properties

Name Type Description
cancelled boolean Flag indicating if the institution is cancelled.
instid string The institution's unique ID (e.g., "CS").
name string The institution's name.
acronym string The institution's acronym, if set (e.g., "UCS").
attributes array A list of the institution's attributes (only populated when requested via fetch).
members array A list of the institution's members (only populated when fetch includes all_members).
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JSON Schema

university-of-cambridge-institution-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/schema/institution.json",
  "title": "Institution",
  "description": "An institution record returned by the Cambridge Lookup/Ibis web service API.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "cancelled": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Flag indicating if the institution is cancelled."
    },
    "instid": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The institution's unique ID (e.g., \"CS\")."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The institution's name."
    },
    "acronym": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The institution's acronym, if set (e.g., \"UCS\")."
    },
    "attributes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "$ref": "https://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/schema/attribute.json" },
      "description": "A list of the institution's attributes (only populated when requested via fetch)."
    },
    "members": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "$ref": "https://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/schema/person.json" },
      "description": "A list of the institution's members (only populated when fetch includes all_members)."
    }
  }
}

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