Imperial College London

Spiral OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint

A fully functional OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface — the standards-based way Imperial's research outputs reach OpenAIRE, CORE, BASE and the rest of the aggregator layer. Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListSets all answer 200. Eleven metadata prefixes are served — oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, marc, dim, rdf, ore, didl, etdms and uketd_dc — of which etdms and uketd_dc are the ETD and UK thesis profiles, evidence of a configured repository rather than a default install. A second base URL at /server/oai/openairecris declares OpenAIRE CERIF profile 1.1 compatibility. earliestDatestamp is 1916-01-01. No OpenAPI is saved for this surface: the protocol is OAI's, the implementation is DSpace's and the hosting is 4Science's, so authoring a contract here would credit Imperial with engineering it did not do.

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APIReference

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify

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Documentation

https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

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Conformance

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

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: imperial-college-london:spiral-oai-pmh
name: Spiral OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'Served by the same 4Science-hosted DSpace-CRIS instance. Institution-identified,
  however: the Identify response returns repositoryIdentifier spiral.imperial.ac.uk and adminEmail spiral-prd@imperial.ac.uk,
  and every set is namespaced under Imperial''s Handle prefix 10044.'
description: 'A fully functional OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface — the standards-based way Imperial''s
  research outputs reach OpenAIRE, CORE, BASE and the rest of the aggregator layer. Identify, ListMetadataFormats
  and ListSets all answer 200. Eleven metadata prefixes are served — oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, marc, dim,
  rdf, ore, didl, etdms and uketd_dc — of which etdms and uketd_dc are the ETD and UK thesis profiles,
  evidence of a configured repository rather than a default install. A second base URL at /server/oai/openairecris
  declares OpenAIRE CERIF profile 1.1 compatibility. earliestDatestamp is 1916-01-01. No OpenAPI is saved
  for this surface: the protocol is OAI''s, the implementation is DSpace''s and the hosting is 4Science''s,
  so authoring a contract here would credit Imperial with engineering it did not do.'
humanURL: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/oai/request
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- Open Access
- Research Data
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/imperial-college-london-education-standards.yml