{
  "@context": {
    "schema": "https://schema.org/",
    "caltech": "https://data.caltech.edu/vocab#",
    "@vocab": "https://schema.org/",
    "name": "schema:name",
    "url": "schema:url",
    "description": "schema:description",
    "identifier": "schema:identifier",
    "sameAs": "schema:sameAs",
    "logo": "schema:logo",
    "address": "schema:address",
    "CollegeOrUniversity": "schema:CollegeOrUniversity",
    "Dataset": "schema:Dataset",
    "DataCatalog": "schema:DataCatalog",
    "Organization": "schema:Organization",
    "WebAPI": "schema:WebAPI",
    "api": "caltech:api",
    "operator": "caltech:operator",
    "baseURL": { "@id": "caltech:baseURL", "@type": "@id" },
    "humanURL": { "@id": "caltech:humanURL", "@type": "@id" },
    "conformsTo": { "@id": "schema:isBasedOn", "@type": "@id" },
    "record": "caltech:record",
    "doi": { "@id": "caltech:doi", "@type": "@id" },
    "metadata": "caltech:metadata",
    "files": "caltech:files",
    "created": { "@id": "schema:dateCreated", "@type": "schema:Date" },
    "updated": { "@id": "schema:dateModified", "@type": "schema:Date" }
  },
  "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
  "name": "California Institute of Technology",
  "url": "https://www.caltech.edu/",
  "description": "Private research university in Pasadena, California. Its public machine-readable footprint is genuinely institution-operated rather than vendor-attributed: self-hosted research repositories (CaltechDATA and CaltechAUTHORS on InvenioRDM), the Caltech Seismological Laboratory's SCEDC FDSN web services, three Caltech/IPAC NASA astronomy archives behind IVOA interfaces, and a Shibboleth identity provider registered in InCommon. No central developer portal and no Caltech-published OpenAPI.",
  "logo": "https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://github.com/caltechlibrary",
    "https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/school/california-institute-of-technology/"
  ],
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "addressLocality": "Pasadena",
    "addressRegion": "CA",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  },
  "_provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "apis.yml — surfaces verified by live probe 2026-08-19",
    "note": "operator values mirror apis.yml x-operator. 'tenant' means the data is Caltech's and the contract is the vendor's."
  },
  "api": [
    {
      "@type": "DataCatalog",
      "name": "CaltechDATA REST API",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://caltechlibrary.github.io/caltechdata_api/",
      "baseURL": "https://data.caltech.edu/api/records",
      "description": "Public REST API for CaltechDATA, the Caltech institutional research data repository on self-hosted InvenioRDM. DataCite DOIs under Caltech's own 10.22002 prefix; ORCID iDs on creators."
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataCatalog",
      "name": "CaltechDATA OAI-PMH",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://data.caltech.edu/",
      "baseURL": "https://data.caltech.edu/oai2d",
      "conformsTo": "https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html",
      "description": "OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint, advertising datacite, datacite4, dcat, marc21 and oai_dc formats."
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataCatalog",
      "name": "CaltechAUTHORS REST API and OAI-PMH",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/",
      "baseURL": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/api/records",
      "description": "Caltech's institutional publications repository on self-hosted InvenioRDM, carrying ORCID and ROR identifiers."
    },
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "name": "Caltech Library Feeds",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/",
      "baseURL": "https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/",
      "description": "Caltech Library metadata service publishing JSON datasets harvested from its repositories, directory and archives — including 3,885 person records carrying ORCID iDs."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "name": "SCEDC FDSN Web Services",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://scedc.caltech.edu/",
      "baseURL": "https://service.scedc.caltech.edu/fdsnws",
      "conformsTo": "https://www.fdsn.org/webservices/",
      "description": "Southern California Earthquake Data Center seismic web services (fdsnws-event, fdsnws-station, fdsnws-dataselect), operated by the Caltech Seismological Laboratory."
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataCatalog",
      "name": "IRSA Virtual Observatory APIs (Caltech/IPAC)",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/voapi.html",
      "baseURL": "https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP",
      "description": "NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive IVOA interfaces — TAP, Simple Cone Search and Simple Image Access v2."
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataCatalog",
      "name": "NED Table Access Protocol (Caltech/IPAC)",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/Documents/Guides/Interface/TAP",
      "baseURL": "https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/tap",
      "description": "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database IVOA TAP service, with spec-conformant VOTable error documents."
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataCatalog",
      "name": "NASA Exoplanet Archive TAP (Caltech/IPAC)",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/program_interfaces.html",
      "baseURL": "https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP",
      "description": "NASA Exoplanet Archive IVOA TAP service over confirmed-planet and related tables."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "name": "Caltech Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)",
      "operator": "institution",
      "humanURL": "https://www.imss.caltech.edu/",
      "baseURL": "https://idp.caltech.edu/idp/shibboleth",
      "description": "Caltech's SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider, scope caltech.edu, registered in the InCommon federation and reachable through eduGAIN."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "name": "Caltech Library Guides (Springshare tenancy)",
      "operator": "tenant",
      "humanURL": "https://libguides.caltech.edu/",
      "baseURL": "https://libguides.caltech.edu/",
      "description": "Caltech Library's discovery and research-guide layer runs on Springshare LibGuides. The tenancy and content are Caltech's; the contract is Springshare's and is not saved under Caltech."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "name": "EBSCO Link Resolver (Caltech instance)",
      "operator": "tenant",
      "humanURL": "https://library.caltech.edu/search",
      "description": "Caltech Library's OpenURL link resolver is an EBSCO tenancy (instance l7ubco) on a shared vendor host."
    }
  ]
}