Digital Collections
Providers using this tag (19)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
University of MinnesotaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of Maryland College ParkUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of ChicagoETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyUniversity of YorkLibrary of CongressPrinceton UniversityUniversity of OxfordUniversity of Florida
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
APIs with this tag (37)
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Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 23 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL)UCSB Library's institutional research repository, moved from alexandria.ucsb.edu to digital.library.ucsb.ed...UMedia Digital Collections JSON APIA read-only JSON API over UMedia, the University of Minnesota Libraries digital collections platform. Any s...UMedia IIIF image delivery (OCLC CONTENTdm tenant)UMedia's digital objects are delivered over the IIIF Image API 2.1 from the Libraries' OCLC CONTENTdm insta...UCLA Library Digital CollectionsUCLA Library's digital collections platform, institution-hosted on a UCLA IP under a UCLA-issued certificat...UCLA Library IIIF Image ServiceUCLA Library self-hosts a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server exposing both IIIF Image API 2.x and 3.0 endpoints ...UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation manifests for Open Collections items, served from UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2...UvA Library Linked Open Data (TriplyDB tenancy)The University of Amsterdam Library publishes its digitised collections — books, letters, maps, images, aud...UMD Collection on the Internet ArchiveThe University of Maryland, College Park collection at the Internet Archive, documented by UMD Libraries as...UMD Libraries Audio/Video Collections OAI-PMH and OpenSearchThe Libraries' Avalon Media System deployment for audio and video collections, with an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint...UMD Libraries Digital Collections OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over UMD Libraries' Fedora-backed digital collections. Identify reports rep...UMD Libraries IIIF ServicesIIIF Image and Presentation services operated by UMD Libraries — a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server and Papaya...University of Chicago Library IIIF Image APIIIIF Image API Level 2 service for the University of Chicago Library, running Loris. The service root self-...University of Chicago Library IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests for the University of Chicago Library's digital collections, addressed ...Digital Library Collections and the 10.7916 DOI namespaceColumbia University Libraries' digital collections platform and the resolution target for Columbia's own DO...ETH Zurich – e-rara OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 interface for e-rara, the platform of digitized rare books held by Swiss institutions, operated...University of York Digital Collections IIIF APIsThe University of York serves its digitised material through two IIIF specifications on its own host: IIIF ...University of York Digital Collections Search APIThe keyless JSON search interface behind discover.york.ac.uk, the University of York's Digital Collections....Digital PUL (DPUL)Princeton's public digital collections site at dpul.princeton.edu (pulibrary/dpul), the presentation layer ...Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIFFiggy is Princeton University Library's Valkyrie-based digital repository backend (pulibrary/figgy). It ser...Colenda Digital Repository — Search JSONPenn Libraries' digital repository at colenda.library.upenn.edu exposes a Blacklight/Solr JSON search respo...OPenn — Open Manuscript DataPenn Libraries' bulk open-data site publishing high-resolution manuscript images and TEI/XML descriptions i...MSU Libraries Digital Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 provider over the MSU Libraries Digital Repository at d.lib.msu.edu. Verified live on 2026-08-3...UF Libraries Patron APIThe public read API of the George A. Smathers Libraries, backing the UF Digital Collections, the Digital Li...
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
Patrimonio Documental y Bibliografico - CONTENTdmThe university's digital heritage and rare-materials collection, on an institution-specific subdomain that ...UC Berkeley Digital Collections OAI-PMH (TIND tenant)Berkeley's Digital Collections repository exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface, confirmed with an actual ve...Keio Media Center Digital Collections IIIF APIThe Keio University Media Center serves its digitised special collections as IIIF on two hosts it owns: dco...Vanderbilt Television News Archive APIPublic read API behind tvnews.vanderbilt.edu, self-identifying as the "TVNA Serverless API" v1.0.0. Search,...LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The hos...Leeds Digital Library (OAI-PMH and OpenSearch)A second, separate institution-run EPrints deployment holding digitised Special Collections — Bronte, incun...Library Floor Plans IIIF Image APIA static IIIF Image API level 0 service on the institution's own host, serving high-resolution floor plans ...TCD Digital Collections (IIIF Presentation)The Library of Trinity College Dublin's Hyrax/Samvera digital asset repository, on Trinity's own host and b...ASU Library KEEP OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for KEEP, the ASU Library digital repository, running on Islandora that ASU Library bu...ASU Library PRISM OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for PRISM, ASU Library's second Islandora digital-collections repository. repositoryNa...University Library IIIF Image ServerA IIIF server operated by the University Library of Bern at iiif.ub.unibe.ch, serving images for its digiti...PHAIDRA at Padua (deployment)PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System's digital-collections repository, holding the institution...
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Companies reaching this through an API (13)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Digital Collections” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.
Arizona State University
Columbia University
London School of Economics and Political Science
Michigan State University
University of Amsterdam
University of Bern
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Los Andes Colombia
University of Padua
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Score breakdown
Frequency
46.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
50.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
IIIF 16 co-occurrences
InCommon 15 co-occurrences
Cultural Heritage 8 co-occurrences
Public Research University 14 co-occurrences
UC System 5 co-occurrences
Research Computing 14 co-occurrences
DataCite 16 co-occurrences
Shibboleth 27 co-occurrences
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