Australian National University

Australian National University Harvesting API

OAI-PMH verbs for metadata harvesting.

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GET /request Issue an OAI-PMH verb #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: ANU Open Research OAI-PMH Harvesting API
  version: '2.0'
  summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for ANU's Open Research institutional repository.
  description: ANU operates its institutional repository, Open Research, on self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7 at openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au (CNAME dspace-prod.anu.edu.au, 130.56.67.40 — ANU address space).
  contact:
    name: ANU Open Research
    email: genevieve.turner@anu.edu.au
    url: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/open-research-collections
  x-operator: institution
  x-provenance:
    method: probed
    generated: '2026-08-19'
    source: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    derived_by: API Evangelist university pipeline
  x-standard:
    id: oai-pmh
    name: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
    version: '2.0'
    spec: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
servers:
- url: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai
  description: ANU Open Research OAI-PMH provider (DSpace 7.6.7, self-hosted).
tags:
- name: Harvesting
  description: OAI-PMH verbs for metadata harvesting.
paths:
  /request:
    get:
      operationId: oaiPmhRequest
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH verb
      description: Single dispatch endpoint for all six OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs. The verb query parameter selects the operation; the remaining parameters are conditional on the verb. All responses are XML in the http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ namespace.
      tags:
      - Harvesting
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The OAI-PMH verb to execute.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
          examples:
          - Identify
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format to return. Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord. Twelve prefixes are supported by this repository.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - qdc
          - mods
          - mets
          - didl
          - ore
          - rdf
          - marc
          - xoai
          - dim
          - etdms
          - uketd_dc
          examples:
          - oai_dc
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 'OAI identifier of a single record. Required for GetRecord. Form: oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/1234'
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/1234
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set spec to restrict a selective harvest to one collection or community.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound on datestamp, YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. Earliest datestamp in this repository is 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound on datestamp, YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Continuation token returned by a previous incomplete list response. Exclusive of all other arguments except verb.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An OAI-PMH XML response. Protocol-level failures (badVerb, badArgument, cannotDisseminateFormat, idDoesNotExist, noRecordsMatch, noSetHierarchy, badResumptionToken) are returned inside this 200 as an <error> element with a code attribute, per the OAI-PMH specification — status code alone is not a success signal.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                contentMediaType: text/xml
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Live Identify response captured 2026-08-19
                  externalValue: ../examples/anu-open-research-oai-identify-example.xml

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