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+# Meta information for MDS APIs
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+MDS follows the [JSON API](http://jsonapi.org/format/#fetching-pagination) compliance for pagination. 
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+All API reponses must provide the following members
+
+the following keys MUST be used for pagination links:
+`first`: the first page of data
+`last`: the last page of data
+`prev`: the previous page of data
+`next`: the next page of data