# Ghent University Library OAI Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ghent/oai-service/  
**Provider:** Ghent University — https://apis.io/providers/ghent/  
**Base URL:** /api/v1  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/ugent-library/oai-service

Ghent University Library OAI Service is one of 12 APIs that [Ghent University](https://apis.io/providers/ghent/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, and Library. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and an API reference.

An OpenAPI 3.1 contract authored and open-sourced by Ghent University Library for the administrative side of the OAI-PMH server that fronts the Academic Bibliography - adding metadata formats, sets, items and records, and deleting records. This is the write half of the harvesting surface at biblio.ugent.be/oai. servers[] is relative; the deployment is internal and the contract declares no securityScheme.

## Operations (5)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/add-metadata-format` | Add a metadata format |
| POST | `/add-set` | Add a set |
| POST | `/add-item` | Add item |
| POST | `/add-record` | Add record |
| POST | `/delete-record` | Delete a record |

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/openapi/ghent-oai-service-openapi.yaml
- **APIReference** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/oai-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/ugent-library/oai-service
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/conformance/ghent-education-standards-conformance.yml

## Other Ghent University APIs (11)

- [Ghent University Academic Bibliography API](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/biblio/)
- [Ghent University Academic Bibliography OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/biblio-oai/)
- [Ghent University Academic Bibliography SRU](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/biblio-sru/)
- [Hydra Resto API](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/hydra-resto/)
- [Ghent University Library People Service](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/people-service/)
- [Ghent University Library Projects Service](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/projects-service/)
- [Ghent University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/saml-idp/)
- [Ghent University Library catalogue (Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/library-catalog/)
- [Dodona](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/dodona/)
- [Crossref membership](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/crossref/)
- [ROR registration](https://apis.io/apis/ghent/ror/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Library

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