Cornell University

eCommons Institutional Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH) — tenant

eCommons is Cornell University Library's institutional repository: Cornell's content, Cornell's DOIs, Cornell's host. The interface is not Cornell's engineering. It runs DSpace 8.2 on a 4Science-managed platform, so the REST and OAI-PMH contracts belong to DSpace/4Science and are deliberately NOT saved as Cornell OpenAPIs. The relationship is recorded because a managed repository is a real institutional fact and one of the few programmable surfaces a university has. OAI-PMH Identify and ListMetadataFormats both answer 200 and are the repository's genuine education-regime conformance evidence.

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Documentation

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Documentation

https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication

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Examples

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cornell/refs/heads/main/examples/cornell-ecommons-dspace-root-example.json

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Conformance

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

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: cornell:ecommons
name: eCommons Institutional Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH) — tenant
description: 'eCommons is Cornell University Library''s institutional repository: Cornell''s content,
  Cornell''s DOIs, Cornell''s host. The interface is not Cornell''s engineering. It runs DSpace 8.2 on
  a 4Science-managed platform, so the REST and OAI-PMH contracts belong to DSpace/4Science and are deliberately
  NOT saved as Cornell OpenAPIs. The relationship is recorded because a managed repository is a real institutional
  fact and one of the few programmable surfaces a university has. OAI-PMH Identify and ListMetadataFormats
  both answer 200 and are the repository''s genuine education-regime conformance evidence.'
humanURL: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication
baseURL: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'ecommons.cornell.edu CNAMEs to cornell-ecommons.eks.prod.4science.cloud — an institution
  hostname on a vendor-managed DSpace platform. The REST root self-reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 8.2".
  Probed 2026-08-19: /server/api 200 application/hal+json, /server/oai/request?verb=Identify 200 text/xml.'
x-vendor: 4Science (DSpace)
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- DSpace
- OAI-PMH
- Research Data
- Library
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication
- type: Examples
  url: examples/cornell-ecommons-dspace-root-example.json
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cornell-education-standards-conformance.yml