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OCC Knowledge API

Open REST API for AI governance knowledge. No account, no rate limits, EU-hosted.

https://opencognitioncommons.org/api/occ
No Auth CORS JSON CC-BY 4.0

Quickstart

# Health check
curl https://opencognitioncommons.org/api/occ/health

# Search
curl "https://opencognitioncommons.org/api/occ/search?q=High-Risk-AI&top=3"

# Glossary (all entries)
curl https://opencognitioncommons.org/api/occ/glossary

# Glossary with filter
curl "https://opencognitioncommons.org/api/occ/glossary?q=HITL"

Endpoints

GET /api/occ/health

System health and statistics. Number of chunks, sources, API version.

GET /api/occ/search

BM25 full-text search over all 689 OCC chunks.

ParameterTypeDescription
qstringSearch query (required)
topintMax results (default: 5)
POST /api/occ/rag

Retrieval-Augmented Generation — context chunks for a question. Ideal for LLM integration.

{"query": "What are the obligations for high-risk AI?", "top_k": 5}
GET /api/occ/glossary

82+ AI governance definitions. Optional with search filter.

GET /api/occ/sources

Complete source registry with license, provenance and chunk count.

Try it live

Try it live

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License & Usage

The API and all responses are under CC-BY 4.0. Commercial use, LLM training and further processing explicitly allowed with attribution: Open Cognition Commons Foundation, opencognitioncommons.org