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Digital Collections

Score 21.3 / 100 19 providers +13 via APIs 29 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (19)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area

APIs with this tag (29)

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Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Cambridge Digital Library IIIF APIsThe Cambridge University Library digital collections platform exposes IIIF Presentation API 2.1 manifests a...50.0UMedia 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...48.0UCLA Library Digital CollectionsUCLA Library's digital collections platform, institution-hosted on a UCLA IP under a UCLA-issued certificat...47.9UCLA 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 ...47.9Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL)UCSB Library's institutional research repository, moved from alexandria.ucsb.edu to digital.library.ucsb.ed...47.7UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation manifests for Open Collections items, served from UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2...47.6UvA Library Linked Open Data (TriplyDB tenancy)The University of Amsterdam Library publishes its digitised collections — books, letters, maps, images, aud...46.5ETH Zurich – e-rara OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 interface for e-rara, the platform of digitized rare books held by Swiss institutions, operated...41.8University of Chicago Library IIIF Image APIIIIF Image API Level 2 service for the University of Chicago Library, running Loris. The service root self-...41.8University of Chicago Library IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests for the University of Chicago Library's digital collections, addressed ...41.8Digital Library Collections and the 10.7916 DOI namespaceColumbia University Libraries' digital collections platform and the resolution target for Columbia's own DO...40.1
Thin 17 Limited public surface area
Digital PUL (DPUL)Princeton's public digital collections site at dpul.princeton.edu (pulibrary/dpul), the presentation layer ...39.1Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIFFiggy is Princeton University Library's Valkyrie-based digital repository backend (pulibrary/figgy). It ser...39.1UMD Collection on the Internet ArchiveThe University of Maryland, College Park collection at the Internet Archive, documented by UMD Libraries as...38.7UMD 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...38.7UMD Libraries Digital Collections OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over UMD Libraries' Fedora-backed digital collections. Identify reports rep...38.7UMD Libraries IIIF ServicesIIIF Image and Presentation services operated by UMD Libraries — a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server and Papaya...38.7Colenda Digital Repository — Search JSONPenn Libraries' digital repository at colenda.library.upenn.edu exposes a Blacklight/Solr JSON search respo...37.0OPenn — Open Manuscript DataPenn Libraries' bulk open-data site publishing high-resolution manuscript images and TEI/XML descriptions i...37.0MSU 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...36.2Patrimonio Documental y Bibliografico - CONTENTdmThe university's digital heritage and rare-materials collection, on an institution-specific subdomain that ...33.7UC 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...33.0LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The hos...32.1TCD Digital Collections (IIIF Presentation)The Library of Trinity College Dublin's Hyrax/Samvera digital asset repository, on Trinity's own host and b...29.2ASU Library KEEP OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for KEEP, the ASU Library digital repository, running on Islandora that ASU Library bu...28.7ASU Library PRISM OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for PRISM, ASU Library's second Islandora digital-collections repository. repositoryNa...28.7University Library IIIF Image ServerA IIIF server operated by the University Library of Bern at iiif.ub.unibe.ch, serving images for its digiti...27.1PHAIDRA at Padua (deployment)PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System's digital-collections repository, holding the institution...26.7
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
45.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
49.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

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

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