Maastricht University Harvesting API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Maastricht University Research Portal OAI-PMH Harvesting API
  version: '2.0'
  summary: Institution-operated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the Maastricht University research portal.
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface operated by Maastricht University at cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl.
  contact:
    name: Maastricht University Library — Pure support
    email: ub-pure@maastrichtuniversity.nl
    url: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
  license:
    name: OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  x-operator: institution
  x-method: derived
  x-generated: '2026-08-30'
  x-source: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/oai?verb=Identify
servers:
- url: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/oai
  description: Maastricht University OAI Repository — verified live 2026-08-30, keyless, application/xml
tags:
- name: Harvesting
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs. Every response is an application/xml OAI-PMH envelope.
paths:
  /:
    get:
      operationId: oaiRequest
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request
      description: Single-endpoint protocol. The `verb` query parameter selects the operation; the remaining parameters are conditional on the verb, exactly as OAI-PMH 2.0 defines. All six verbs below returned HTTP 200 with a well-formed OAI-PMH envelope when probed on 2026-08-30.
      tags:
      - Harvesting
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: OAI-PMH verb. All six values were probed live and returned 200.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format. Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord. The enum is the verbatim ListMetadataFormats response of this repository on 2026-08-30.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - qdc
          - oai_cerif_openaire
          - nl_didl
          - oai_dc
          - mods
          - xmetadiss
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a single record. Required for GetRecord. Observed form `oai:cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl:<set>/<uuid>`.
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - oai:cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl:openaire_cris_publications/3b317128-b380-46d2-931f-73111d7d5c90
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set to restrict a listing to. The repository exposes the seven OpenAIRE CRIS entity sets plus per-year and withFiles publication sets; the enum below lists the OpenAIRE CRIS sets observed on 2026-08-30 and is not exhaustive of the year-partitioned sets.
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - openaire_cris_publications
          - openaire_cris_patents
          - openaire_cris_persons
          - openaire_cris_orgunits
          - openaire_cris_events
          - openaire_cris_equipments
          - openaire_cris_products
          - publications:all
          - publications:withFiles
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound selective-harvesting datestamp. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound selective-harvesting datestamp. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token returned with a partial list. Observed carrying `cursor` and `completeListSize` attributes (completeListSize 798420 for ListIdentifiers/oai_dc on 2026-08-30). Exclusive of all other parameters except `verb`.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH envelope. Protocol-level failures are ALSO returned as 200 with an <error> element carrying a `code` attribute — status code alone never indicates success here.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIPMHResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    OAIPMHResponse:
      type: object
      description: Root OAI-PMH element. Described structurally rather than by XSD reference; the authoritative schema is http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd, and CERIF payloads validate against https://www.openaire.eu/schema/cris/1.2/openaire-cerif-profile.xsd.
      properties:
        responseDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        request:
          type: string
          format: uri
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIError'
    OAIError:
      type: object
      description: OAI-PMH protocol error, returned inside a 200 response.
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: OAI-PMH error code. `badVerb` was confirmed live on 2026-08-30 via ?verb=Bogus; the remaining values are the OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol set and were not individually provoked.
          enum:
          - badArgument
          - badResumptionToken
          - badVerb
          - cannotDisseminateFormat
          - idDoesNotExist
          - noRecordsMatch
          - noMetadataFormats
          - noSetHierarchy
        message:
          type: string