Politecnico di Torino

IRIS PoliTO OAI-PMH Metadata Service (CINECA deployment)

OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting service over IRIS, Politecnico di Torino's institutional research repository, reachable at https://iris.polito.it/oai/request. Verified live on 2026-08-30 across Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets and ListRecords: repositoryName "IRIS - POLITO - prod", repositoryIdentifier iris.polito.it, earliest datestamp 2015-06-30, three metadata prefixes (didl, ore, oai_dc), DSpace-style community and collection sets under the 11583 handle prefix, and 100 real Dublin Core records with a resumptionToken on the first page. Recorded as tenant rather than institution: iris.polito.it CNAMEs to polito.prod.iris.cineca.it and the Identify response gives adminEmail noreply@cineca.it. IRIS is CINECA's research-information product, deployed across most Italian universities. The research record is PoliTO's; the harvesting contract is CINECA's, and no IRIS contract is saved into this repository.

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https://iris.polito.it/

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/politecnico-di-torino/refs/heads/main/conformance/politecnico-di-torino-conformance.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: politecnico-di-torino:iris-oai
name: IRIS PoliTO OAI-PMH Metadata Service (CINECA deployment)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting service over IRIS, Politecnico di Torino''s institutional research
  repository, reachable at https://iris.polito.it/oai/request. Verified live on 2026-08-30 across Identify,
  ListMetadataFormats, ListSets and ListRecords: repositoryName "IRIS - POLITO - prod", repositoryIdentifier
  iris.polito.it, earliest datestamp 2015-06-30, three metadata prefixes (didl, ore, oai_dc), DSpace-style
  community and collection sets under the 11583 handle prefix, and 100 real Dublin Core records with a
  resumptionToken on the first page. Recorded as tenant rather than institution: iris.polito.it CNAMEs
  to polito.prod.iris.cineca.it and the Identify response gives adminEmail noreply@cineca.it. IRIS is
  CINECA''s research-information product, deployed across most Italian universities. The research record
  is PoliTO''s; the harvesting contract is CINECA''s, and no IRIS contract is saved into this repository.'
humanURL: https://iris.polito.it/
baseURL: https://iris.polito.it/oai/request
tags:
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Harvesting
- Open Access
- Tenant Deployment
- CINECA
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://iris.polito.it/
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/politecnico-di-torino-conformance.yml