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Digital Collections

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Providers using this tag (19)

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Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
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...53.4UMedia Digital Collections JSON APIA read-only JSON API over UMedia, the University of Minnesota Libraries digital collections platform. Any s...53.4UMedia 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...53.4UCLA Library Digital CollectionsUCLA Library's digital collections platform, institution-hosted on a UCLA IP under a UCLA-issued certificat...52.7UCLA 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 ...52.7UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation manifests for Open Collections items, served from UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2...52.3UvA Library Linked Open Data (TriplyDB tenancy)The University of Amsterdam Library publishes its digitised collections — books, letters, maps, images, aud...50.1UMD Collection on the Internet ArchiveThe University of Maryland, College Park collection at the Internet Archive, documented by UMD Libraries as...47.9UMD 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...47.9UMD Libraries Digital Collections OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over UMD Libraries' Fedora-backed digital collections. Identify reports rep...47.9UMD Libraries IIIF ServicesIIIF Image and Presentation services operated by UMD Libraries — a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server and Papaya...47.9University of Chicago Library IIIF Image APIIIIF Image API Level 2 service for the University of Chicago Library, running Loris. The service root self-...46.1University of Chicago Library IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests for the University of Chicago Library's digital collections, addressed ...46.1Digital Library Collections and the 10.7916 DOI namespaceColumbia University Libraries' digital collections platform and the resolution target for Columbia's own DO...44.7ETH Zurich – e-rara OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 interface for e-rara, the platform of digitized rare books held by Swiss institutions, operated...44.7University of York Digital Collections IIIF APIsThe University of York serves its digitised material through two IIIF specifications on its own host: IIIF ...43.7University of York Digital Collections Search APIThe keyless JSON search interface behind discover.york.ac.uk, the University of York's Digital Collections....43.7Digital PUL (DPUL)Princeton's public digital collections site at dpul.princeton.edu (pulibrary/dpul), the presentation layer ...42.1Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIFFiggy is Princeton University Library's Valkyrie-based digital repository backend (pulibrary/figgy). It ser...42.1Colenda Digital Repository — Search JSONPenn Libraries' digital repository at colenda.library.upenn.edu exposes a Blacklight/Solr JSON search respo...40.1OPenn — Open Manuscript DataPenn Libraries' bulk open-data site publishing high-resolution manuscript images and TEI/XML descriptions i...40.1MSU 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...39.9UF Libraries Patron APIThe public read API of the George A. Smathers Libraries, backing the UF Digital Collections, the Digital Li...39.9
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 ...38.7UC 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...35.9Keio Media Center Digital Collections IIIF APIThe Keio University Media Center serves its digitised special collections as IIIF on two hosts it owns: dco...35.8Vanderbilt Television News Archive APIPublic read API behind tvnews.vanderbilt.edu, self-identifying as the "TVNA Serverless API" v1.0.0. Search,...35.7LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The hos...35.1Leeds Digital Library (OAI-PMH and OpenSearch)A second, separate institution-run EPrints deployment holding digitised Special Collections — Bronte, incun...34.0Library Floor Plans IIIF Image APIA static IIIF Image API level 0 service on the institution's own host, serving high-resolution floor plans ...34.0TCD Digital Collections (IIIF Presentation)The Library of Trinity College Dublin's Hyrax/Samvera digital asset repository, on Trinity's own host and b...32.1ASU Library KEEP OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for KEEP, the ASU Library digital repository, running on Islandora that ASU Library bu...31.8ASU Library PRISM OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for PRISM, ASU Library's second Islandora digital-collections repository. repositoryNa...31.8University Library IIIF Image ServerA IIIF server operated by the University Library of Bern at iiif.ub.unibe.ch, serving images for its digiti...30.5PHAIDRA at Padua (deployment)PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System's digital-collections repository, holding the institution...29.6
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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