Methods

Method	description
jsonInterface?method=getWitness&entId=x1	returns a witness by id
jsonInterface?method=getEntity&entId=x1	returns an entity by id
jsonInterface?method=getCodex&codexIdentifier=x1&collection=x2	returns a codex by its identifier and collection
jsonInterface?method=getAllCodices	returns all codices

Examples

• ​https://openmind-ismi-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ismi-server/jsonInterface?method=getEntity&entId=432674

  Output:

  {
      "entity": {
          "id": 432674,
          "attributes": [
              {
                  "name": "name_translit",
                  "value": "ʿAbbās Wasīm Efendī"
              },
              {
                  "name": "url",
                  "value": "http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Abbas_Wasim_Efendi_BEA.htm"
              }
          ],
          "targets": [
              {
                  "source": 432672,
                  "name": "is_prime_alias_name_of",
                  "target": 432674
              }
          ],
          "sources": [
              {
                  "source": 432674,
                  "name": "was_born_in",
                  "target": 149169
              }
          ]
      }
  }
  

• ​https://openmind-ismi-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ismi-server/jsonInterface?method=getCodex&codexIdentifier=437&collection=Jawāhir

  Output:

  {
      "codices": [
          {
              "id": 134176,
              "witnesses": [
                  {
                      "id": 55153
                  }
              ],
              "repository": "Azad Library",
              "entity": {
                  "attributes": [
                      {
                          "name": "identifier",
                          "value": "437"
                      }
                  ],
                  "targets": [
                      {
                          "source": 55153,
                          "name": "is_part_of",
                          "target": 134176
                      }
                  ],
                  "sources": [
                      {
                          "source": 134176,
                          "name": "is_part_of",
                          "target": 149134
                      }
                  ]
              },
              "collection": "Jawāhir",
              "identifier": "437",
              "country": "India",
              "city": "Aligarh"
          }
      ]
  }
  

• ​https://openmind-ismi-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ismi-server/jsonInterface?method=getManuscript&entId=63326

  Output:

  {
      "responseInfo": "OK",
      "extended-manuscript": {
          "notes_on_ownership_in_codex": "",
          "notes_in_codex": "",
          "location": "Konya, Turkey",
          "date_calendar": "",
          "number_of_folios": "",
          "holding_library": "Yusuf Agha",
          "author": "Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Harawī",
          "scripts": "",
          "title": " Al-Tadhkira al-Harawiyya fī ḥiyal al-ḥarbiyya",
          "notes_on_ownership": "",
          "call_number": "5009",
          "distinguishing_features": "",
          "editorial_remarks": "",
          "signature": "",
          "linesPerPage": "",
          "abstract": "",
          "keywords": "",
          "contents": "",
          "collation_corrections": "",
          "incipit": "",
          "catchwords": "",
          "copyist": "Abū Isḥāq b. Saʿd Allāh",
          "written_area_dimensions": "",
          "secondary_literature": "",
          "year_calendar": "",
          "explicit": "",
          "binding": "",
          "writing_surface": "",
          "foliation": "",
          "page_dimensions": "",
          "notes": ""
      }
  }