---
title: "Read API and knowledge identity"
method: GET
path: "/v1/meta"
tags: ["Discovery"]
---

# Read API and knowledge identity

`GET /v1/meta`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.kentekenkompas.nl`
- URL: `https://api.kentekenkompas.nl/v1/meta`
- Auth: none required

Primary machine entrypoint: contract version, immutable bundle identity, release status, scope, classification vocabulary and limitations.

## Headers

- `If-None-Match` string

## Response `200`

Successful JSON response.

- Meta
  - `service` 'KentekenKompas Public Knowledge API', required
  - `apiVersion` 'v1', required
  - `schemaVersion` 'kk-api-v1', required
  - `apiSchemaVersion` 'kk-api-v1', required
  - `sourceSchemaVersion` 'kk-public-knowledge-v1', required
  - `knowledgeVersion` string, required
  - `bundleContentHash` string, required
  - `releaseStatus` 'PUBLISHED' | 'PUBLISHED_DATE_UNKNOWN', required
  - `generatedAt` string, date-time, required: Bundle generation time; not underlying data actuality.
  - `publishedAt` string, date-time, nullable, required: Publication moment when recorded; not underlying data actuality.
  - `modelCount` integer, required
  - `answerCount` integer, required
  - `sourceCount` integer, required
  - `termCount` integer, required
  - `language` 'nl-NL', required
  - `scope` string[], required
  - `classifications` unknown[], required
    - unknown
  - `website` 'https://kentekenkompas.nl/', required
  - `openapi` '/openapi.json', required
  - `limitations` Limitation[], required
  - `nonAffiliation` string, required
  - `access` 'anonymous', required

## Other responses

- `304`: Not modified because If-None-Match matched the current representation.
- `400`: The request contains invalid encoding, control characters, ambiguous parameters or another invalid public input.
- `414`: The complete request URL exceeds 2,048 UTF-8 bytes.
- `429`: The anonymous route-class limit was exceeded at this Cloudflare location. This is not a globally exact quota.
- `503`: The selected knowledge release is not ready at this edge location, or the fail-closed request-protection binding is temporarily unavailable.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/kentekenkompas/apis/kentekenkompas-public-knowledge-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/kentekenkompas/apis/kentekenkompas-public-knowledge-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/kentekenkompas/apis/kentekenkompas-public-knowledge-api/revisions/147f92845518?raw)