generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
source: >-
  Derived by API Evangelist from this repository's own OpenAPI contracts for the SPICA Atlas
  API and the IRIS DSpace REST API, both reconstructed from live UNIL hosts. Not published by
  the University of Lausanne.
vocabulary:
  name: University of Lausanne API Vocabulary
  description: >-
    Controlled vocabulary of the key terms used across the publicly documented
    University of Lausanne (UNIL) APIs: the SPICA single-cell / spatial atlas
    JSON API and the IRIS institutional repository DSpace REST API.
  version: '1.0.0'
  terms:
    - term: Project
      definition: >-
        A SPICA atlas dataset describing a single-cell / spatial transcriptomics
        experiment, with metadata, sample counts and a downloadable archive.
      tags: [spica, research-data]
    - term: ref_id
      definition: >-
        Reference atlas identifier used by SPICA to group projects belonging to
        the same reference atlas.
      tags: [spica, filtering]
    - term: project_attrs
      definition: >-
        Variable key-value experimental attributes attached to a SPICA project
        (e.g. condition, timepoints, tissue).
      tags: [spica, metadata]
    - term: free_text
      definition: >-
        SPICA query parameter performing a free-text search across project
        metadata fields.
      tags: [spica, search]
    - term: Community
      definition: >-
        A top-level DSpace container in IRIS that groups collections; the root
        community is "IRIS".
      tags: [iris, dspace]
    - term: Collection
      definition: >-
        A DSpace grouping of items within a community in the IRIS repository.
      tags: [iris, dspace]
    - term: Item
      definition: >-
        A DSpace archived record (publication, dataset, thesis) within a
        collection in the IRIS repository.
      tags: [iris, dspace]
    - term: Bitstream
      definition: >-
        A binary file (the actual document or data) attached to a DSpace item
        via a bundle.
      tags: [iris, dspace]
    - term: handle
      definition: >-
        Persistent Handle System identifier assigned to DSpace objects in IRIS
        (e.g. iris/1).
      tags: [iris, identifier]
    - term: metadata
      definition: >-
        DSpace Dublin Core metadata map keyed by qualified field name (e.g.
        dc.title, dc.identifier.uri).
      tags: [iris, dublin-core]
    - term: HAL
      definition: >-
        Hypertext Application Language hypermedia format used by the DSpace REST
        API, exposing resource relations via _links and _embedded.
      tags: [iris, hypermedia]