Politecnico di Milano Harvesting API

The six OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs.

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GET /oai/request Issue an OAI-PMH request #

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OpenAPI Specification

politecnico-di-milano-harvesting-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Re.Public@Polimi OAI-PMH Harvesting API
  version: '2026-09-01'
  summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for IRIS Re.Public@Polimi, the institutional research repository of Politecnico di Milano.
  description: '`https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request` is the OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint of

    **IRIS Re.Public@Polimi**, the institutional research product catalogue of Politecnico di Milano.'
  contact:
    name: Re.Public@Polimi
    url: https://re.public.polimi.it/
    email: catalogoricerca@notifiche.polimi.it
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host re.public.polimi.it is under the institution's own registrable domain (polimi.it); Identify returns adminEmail catalogoricerca@notifiche.polimi.it and repositoryIdentifier re.public.polimi.it.
  x-standard: OAI-PMH 2.0
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-09-01'
    method: derived
    source:
    - https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
    - https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    - https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=ListSets
    - https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
    - https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=Bogus
    - http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
servers:
- url: https://re.public.polimi.it
  description: IRIS Re.Public@Polimi production repository
security: []
tags:
- name: Harvesting
  description: The six OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs.
paths:
  /oai/request:
    get:
      tags:
      - Harvesting
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH request
      description: 'Single dispatch endpoint for all six OAI-PMH verbs. Which other parameters are legal depends on the verb: GetRecord requires identifier and metadataPrefix; ListRecords and ListIdentifiers require metadataPrefix unless resumptionToken is supplied; Identify, ListSets and ListMetadataFormats take no required parameters.'
      operationId: oaiRequest
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The OAI-PMH verb to execute.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
        example: Identify
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 'Metadata format to return. Verified available on this endpoint: oai_dc, didl, ore (ListMetadataFormats, 2026-09-01).'
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - didl
          - ore
        example: oai_dc
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a single record, e.g. oai:re.public.polimi.it:11311/1263149.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: oai:re.public.polimi.it:11311/1263149
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: setSpec to restrict a listing to, from ListSets — communities are com_11311_<id>, collections col_11311_<id>.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: com_11311_960626
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound on record datestamp, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound on record datestamp, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token returned by a previous incomplete list response.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An OAI-PMH response document. Protocol errors are ALSO returned with HTTP 200 and carry an <error code="..."> element instead of a verb element — see errors/.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                contentMediaType: text/xml
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Identify — live response
                  externalValue: ../examples/politecnico-di-milano-iris-oai-identify.xml
                listMetadataFormats:
                  summary: ListMetadataFormats — live response
                  externalValue: ../examples/politecnico-di-milano-iris-oai-listmetadataformats.xml
                badVerb:
                  summary: Illegal verb — HTTP 200 carrying error code badVerb
                  externalValue: ../examples/politecnico-di-milano-iris-oai-error-badverb.xml