Boston University

OpenBU Repository — OAI-PMH and DSpace REST (Atmire-operated)

OpenBU is Boston University Libraries' open-access institutional repository. The content, the collections and the 2144 Handle prefix are Boston University's; the software is DSpace 7.6 and the deployment is Atmire's. Both the OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and the DSpace 7 REST API answer anonymous callers — Identify returns repositoryName OpenBU with an earliest datestamp of 2005-08-12, ListMetadataFormats offers eight prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, marc, dim, etdms, didl, uketd_dc) and ListSets returns 100 sets. Recorded as a tenant relationship: the repository is a real institutional surface, the contract describing it belongs to DSpace and Atmire, and no DSpace or Figshare specification is saved under this institution's slug.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://open.bu.edu/

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boston/refs/heads/main/conformance/boston-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: boston:openbu-oai
name: OpenBU Repository — OAI-PMH and DSpace REST (Atmire-operated)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Atmire
x-vendor-evidence: open.bu.edu is a CNAME to boston-prod.cname.atmire.com; the OAI-PMH Identify response
  returns adminEmail atmirenv@gmail.com; the DSpace REST root advertises atmire-versions and atmirevaluepair
  endpoints.
description: 'OpenBU is Boston University Libraries'' open-access institutional repository. The content,
  the collections and the 2144 Handle prefix are Boston University''s; the software is DSpace 7.6 and
  the deployment is Atmire''s. Both the OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and the DSpace 7 REST API answer anonymous
  callers — Identify returns repositoryName OpenBU with an earliest datestamp of 2005-08-12, ListMetadataFormats
  offers eight prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, marc, dim, etdms, didl, uketd_dc) and ListSets returns 100
  sets. Recorded as a tenant relationship: the repository is a real institutional surface, the contract
  describing it belongs to DSpace and Atmire, and no DSpace or Figshare specification is saved under this
  institution''s slug.'
humanURL: https://open.bu.edu/
baseURL: https://open.bu.edu/server/oai/request
tags:
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Library
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.bu.edu/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/boston-conformance.yml