Cardiff University

ORCA OAI-PMH Interface

Online Research @ Cardiff (ORCA) is Cardiff University's own EPrints institutional repository, listed as an IT service the University runs. Its OAI-PMH interface has been registered under Cardiff University in the EPrints Registry of Open Access Repositories since 25 October 2005. Institution-operated: the host is on cardiff.ac.uk and the software is self-hosted EPrints, not a vendor tenancy. Machine-readable but not an OpenAPI - OAI-PMH is its contract.

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Documentation
https://roar.eprints.org/957/

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

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: cardiff:cardiff-orca-oai-pmh
name: ORCA OAI-PMH Interface
description: 'Online Research @ Cardiff (ORCA) is Cardiff University''s own EPrints institutional repository,
  listed as an IT service the University runs. Its OAI-PMH interface has been registered under Cardiff
  University in the EPrints Registry of Open Access Repositories since 25 October 2005. Institution-operated:
  the host is on cardiff.ac.uk and the software is self-hosted EPrints, not a vendor tenancy. Machine-readable
  but not an OpenAPI - OAI-PMH is its contract.'
humanURL: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/information.html
baseURL: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://roar.eprints.org/957/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cardiff-education-standards.yml