# Spiral OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/spiral-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** Imperial College London — https://apis.io/providers/imperial-college-london/  
**Base URL:** https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/oai/request  
**Documentation:** https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/

Spiral OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint is one of 5 APIs that [Imperial College London](https://apis.io/providers/imperial-college-london/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Open Access, and Research Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **APIReference** — https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- **Documentation** — https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/conformance/imperial-college-london-education-standards.yml

## Other Imperial College London APIs (4)

- [Imperial Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Spiral Open Access Repository (DSpace 7 REST API)](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/spiral-dspace-rest/)
- [Imperial Canvas LTI 1.3 / OIDC Platform Endpoints](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/canvas-lti-platform/)
- [Imperial Blackboard Learn REST API](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/blackboard-learn-rest/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Open Access, Research Data

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