Kyushu University Repository API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Kyushu University Institutional (QIR) OAI-PMH Repository API
  version: '2.0'
  x-generated: '2026-09-01'
  x-method: derived
  x-source:
  - https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata
  - https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/metadata
  - https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh/?verb=Identify
  x-operator: institution
  x-derived-from: Hand-written from the Kyushu University Library's own published parameter documentation at lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata, then corrected against live responses from the endpoint itself on 2026-09-01 (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, ListIdentifiers, GetRecord, ListRecords and a deliberate badVerb). Kyushu University does not publish an OpenAPI description for this interface; this document is API Evangelist's, not theirs, and is marked derived so it is never credited to the institution as something they published.
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the digital collections of Kyushu University Library, including the Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR).
  contact:
    name: Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) administration
    email: qir@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp
    url: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata
  license:
    name: CC0 1.0 Universal (metadata; QIR abstracts excluded)
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
servers:
- url: https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh
  description: Production OAI-PMH base URL, verified live 2026-09-01
tags:
- name: Repository
  description: Verbs describing the repository itself — its identity, its metadata formats and its sets.
paths:
  /:
    get:
      operationId: oaiPmhRequest
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request
      description: Single OAI-PMH entry point. The `verb` parameter selects the operation; the remaining parameters are valid only for particular verbs, exactly as OAI-PMH 2.0 specifies. A request carrying `resumptionToken` MUST carry no other parameter except `verb`. The library caps a single ListRecords / ListIdentifiers response at 500 records and returns a resumptionToken for the remainder.
      tags:
      - Repository
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The OAI-PMH verb to invoke.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format to return. Required for GetRecord, ListRecords and ListIdentifiers. The library documents `jpcoar` as the supported value and states that formats other than the JPCOAR schema are still being adjusted and are not guaranteed to be well-formed for their structure; ListMetadataFormats nevertheless advertises four.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - jpcoar
          - jpcoar_2.0
          - junii2
          - oai_dc
          default: jpcoar
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a single record, required for GetRecord. Form `oai:catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp:2324/{metadataId}`, where 2324 is the university's Handle prefix.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^oai:catalog\.lib\.kyushu-u\.ac\.jp:2324/[0-9]+$
          examples:
          - oai:catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp:2324/411726
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Collection to harvest. Live setSpec values on 2026-09-01 were coal, dissertation, hydro, papers, rare, seals and qir. The library's documentation notes that the repository set `papers` is not served over OAI-PMH.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - coal
          - dissertation
          - hydro
          - papers
          - rare
          - seals
          - qir
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower datestamp bound, `YYYY-MM-DD` or `YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ`.
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - '2020-03-01'
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper datestamp bound, `YYYY-MM-DD` or `YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ`.
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - '2020-03-31'
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Continuation token returned when a list response is truncated at the 500-record ceiling. Must be sent alone, with no other parameter but `verb`.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An OAI-PMH 2.0 response envelope. Note that protocol-level errors are also returned with HTTP 200 and an `<error>` element carrying an OAI-PMH error code — the HTTP status is not a reliable success signal for this interface.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIPMHResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    OAIPMHResponse:
      type: object
      description: OAI-PMH 2.0 response envelope, namespace http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/, validated against http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd. Described here as an object for OpenAPI's benefit; the wire format is XML.
      properties:
        responseDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        request:
          type: string
          format: uri
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIPMHError'
      required:
      - responseDate
      - request
    OAIPMHError:
      type: object
      description: OAI-PMH protocol error, returned inside a 200 response.
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          enum:
          - badArgument
          - badResumptionToken
          - badVerb
          - cannotDisseminateFormat
          - idDoesNotExist
          - noRecordsMatch
          - noMetadataFormats
          - noSetHierarchy
        message:
          type: string