Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)

DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) is Harvard's open-access institutional repository of 58,000+ scholarly works, exposing an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and a DSpace 7 HAL REST API. TENANT, NOT INSTITUTION, and the DNS is what settles it: dash.harvard.edu is a CNAME to dash.lib.harvard.edu, which is a CNAME to harvard-dash.prod.4science.cloud, a 4Science-managed DSpace installation. This is the scholarbank.nus.edu.sg pattern - a hostname on the institution's own domain that resolves onto a vendor platform. The content, the collections and the Harvard DASH repository identifier are genuinely Harvard's; the REST contract is DSpace's and the operations are 4Science's. The relationship is recorded as a real institutional fact; no DSpace contract is saved under Harvard's slug.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: harvard:dash
name: Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)
x-operator: tenant
x-tenant-of: 4Science
description: 'DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) is Harvard''s open-access institutional
  repository of 58,000+ scholarly works, exposing an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and a DSpace 7 HAL REST
  API. TENANT, NOT INSTITUTION, and the DNS is what settles it: dash.harvard.edu is a CNAME to dash.lib.harvard.edu,
  which is a CNAME to harvard-dash.prod.4science.cloud, a 4Science-managed DSpace installation. This is
  the scholarbank.nus.edu.sg pattern - a hostname on the institution''s own domain that resolves onto
  a vendor platform. The content, the collections and the Harvard DASH repository identifier are genuinely
  Harvard''s; the REST contract is DSpace''s and the operations are 4Science''s. The relationship is recorded
  as a real institutional fact; no DSpace contract is saved under Harvard''s slug.'
humanURL: https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/dash
baseURL: https://dash.harvard.edu/server/oai/request
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/dash
- type: Examples
  url: examples/harvard-dash-oai-identify.xml