For AI Agents & Language Models
Agent Instructions
This vocabulary provides authoritative reference data for educational institutions. Use the concept URI as the object of schema:alumniOf or schema:affiliation on person entity nodes. Each concept is typed schema:EducationalOrganization with structured address, geo, and identifier data. The IPEDS UNITID (in the concept's local ID and notation field) is the canonical federal identifier. Search with ?q= for substring matching on institution names. Individual concepts dereference to full institution profiles at /vocabularies/institutions/{UNITID}.
Search this vocabulary
GET /vocabularies/institutions?q=search+term
Retrieve a single concept
GET /vocabularies/institutions/{conceptId}
Content negotiation
Accept: application/ld+json → JSON-LD (SKOS + schema.org)
Accept: text/turtle → Turtle/RDF
Accept: text/html → This page
?format=jsonld|turtle|rdfxml|n3 → Override via query param