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Digital Collections

Score 18.8 / 100 19 providers +13 via APIs 29 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (19)

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Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (29)

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Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
University of Chicago Library IIIF Image APIIIIF Image API Level 2 service for the University of Chicago Library, running Loris. The service root self-...36.3University of Chicago Library IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests for the University of Chicago Library's digital collections, addressed ...36.3ETH Zurich – e-rara OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 interface for e-rara, the platform of digitized rare books held by Swiss institutions, operated...36.2Digital Library Collections and the 10.7916 DOI namespaceColumbia University Libraries' digital collections platform and the resolution target for Columbia's own DO...33.9Digital PUL (DPUL)Princeton's public digital collections site at dpul.princeton.edu (pulibrary/dpul), the presentation layer ...33.5Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIFFiggy is Princeton University Library's Valkyrie-based digital repository backend (pulibrary/figgy). It ser...33.5Colenda Digital Repository — Search JSONPenn Libraries' digital repository at colenda.library.upenn.edu exposes a Blacklight/Solr JSON search respo...31.0OPenn — Open Manuscript DataPenn Libraries' bulk open-data site publishing high-resolution manuscript images and TEI/XML descriptions i...31.0UMD Collection on the Internet ArchiveThe University of Maryland, College Park collection at the Internet Archive, documented by UMD Libraries as...30.8UMD 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...30.8UMD Libraries Digital Collections OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over UMD Libraries' Fedora-backed digital collections. Identify reports rep...30.8UMD Libraries IIIF ServicesIIIF Image and Presentation services operated by UMD Libraries — a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server and Papaya...30.8MSU 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...30.2Patrimonio Documental y Bibliografico - CONTENTdmThe university's digital heritage and rare-materials collection, on an institution-specific subdomain that ...27.7UC 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...27.0
Emerging 7 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
44.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

IIIF 16 co-occurrences InCommon 15 co-occurrences Public Research University 14 co-occurrences UC System 5 co-occurrences Research Computing 14 co-occurrences Shibboleth 27 co-occurrences DataCite 15 co-occurrences Cultural Heritage 7 co-occurrences

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