DSpace 8 Community (Edinburgh DataShare / ERA)

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  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/main/json-schema/university-of-edinburgh-dspace-community-schema.json",
  "title": "DSpace 8 Community (Edinburgh DataShare / ERA)",
  "description": "Shape of a community object as returned by the DSpace 8.3 REST API operated by the University of Edinburgh at datashare.ed.ac.uk and era.ed.ac.uk. Derived from a probed response, not from vendor documentation.",
  "x-operator": "institution",
  "x-provenance": {
    "method": "derived",
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "source": "https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/server/api/core/communities?size=1",
    "note": "Derived from the observed 2026-08-19 response body. The API shape is DSpace open-source software; the deployment is Edinburgh's."
  },
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["uuid", "name", "handle", "type", "metadata"],
  "properties": {
    "id": {"type": "string", "format": "uuid"},
    "uuid": {"type": "string", "format": "uuid"},
    "name": {"type": "string"},
    "handle": {"type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9]+/[0-9]+$", "description": "Handle System identifier, e.g. 10283/2821 (DataShare) or 1842/69 (ERA)"},
    "archivedItemsCount": {"type": "integer", "description": "-1 when the deployment does not compute the count for anonymous callers"},
    "type": {"type": "string", "const": "community"},
    "metadata": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Qualified Dublin Core metadata map",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": ["value"],
          "properties": {
            "value": {"type": "string"},
            "language": {"type": ["string", "null"]},
            "authority": {"type": ["string", "null"]},
            "confidence": {"type": "integer"},
            "place": {"type": "integer"}
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "_links": {"type": "object"}
  }
}