NF EN ISO 19168-1, Z52-004-1 (01/2025)

This document specifies the behavior of Web APIs providing access to entities in a dataset independent of the underlying data storage system. This document defines discovery and query operations. Discovery operations allow clients to query the API, including the API definition and metadata regarding collections of entities provided by the API, to determine the capabilities of the API and extract related information. to the available distributions of datasets. Query operations allow clients to retrieve entities from the underlying data storage system based on simple selection criteria defined by the client.
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