# Forest Service Research Data Archive Web Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/research-data-archive/  
**Provider:** Forest Service — https://apis.io/providers/forest-service/  
**Base URL:** https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/webservice  
**Documentation:** https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/webservice/

Forest Service Research Data Archive Web Service is one of 5 APIs that [Forest Service](https://apis.io/providers/forest-service/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Metadata, and OAI-PMH. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and a changelog.

Search and retrieve DOI-registered Forest Service research data publications. Four REST endpoints — /search, /product, /organizations and /efrs — plus a full OAI-PMH 2.0 repository at /oaipmh serving Dublin Core (oai_dc) and FGDC-STD-001.1-1999 (fgdc) metadata. The two lookup endpoints exist so a client can discover the legal values for the funder and experimental-forest filters. XML by default, JSON on request. Dated release notes run from 2014 to 2019 and the service is still answering.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/webservice/assets/ResearchDataArchiveAPIDocumentation.pdf
- **APIReference** — https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/webservice/
- **GettingStarted** — https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/webservice/assets/test_scripts.zip
- **ChangeLog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/forest-service/refs/heads/main/changelog/forest-service-changelog.yml
- **Website** — https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/
- **AgentSkill** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/forest-service/refs/heads/main/skills/forest-service-find-research-data.md

## Other Forest Service APIs (4)

- [FIADB-API (EVALIDator)](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/fiadb-api/)
- [FSGeodata Enterprise Data Warehouse Map Services](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/fsgeodata-edw-map-services/)
- [FSGeodata Research Data Warehouse Map Services](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/fsgeodata-rdw-map-services/)
- [U.S. Forest Service Geospatial Data Discovery (DCAT-US catalog)](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/geospatial-data-discovery/)

## Tags

Research Data, Metadata, OAI-PMH

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