Princeton University

DataSpace Institutional Repository — OAI-PMH

DataSpace is Princeton's older DSpace-based institutional repository for theses, dissertations and archived research output, with an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint and content migrating to Princeton Data Commons. Registered with DataCite as client pu.dataspace, which has minted 399 DOIs under the 10.34770 prefix. The host CNAMEs to dataspace.pulcloud.io — pulcloud.io is Princeton University Library's own Google Cloud estate, documented throughout pulibrary/princeton_ansible — so this is Princeton infrastructure running open-source software, not a hosted vendor tenancy. Every request currently returns 401 from Princeton's in-house ALTCHA proof-of-work bot challenge (pulibrary/altcha_rust_server); that is a client-verification gate, not authentication, and the June 2026 profile of this repo recorded it wrongly.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: princeton:dataspace-oai
name: DataSpace Institutional Repository — OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: DataSpace is Princeton's older DSpace-based institutional repository for theses, dissertations
  and archived research output, with an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint and content migrating to
  Princeton Data Commons. Registered with DataCite as client pu.dataspace, which has minted 399 DOIs under
  the 10.34770 prefix. The host CNAMEs to dataspace.pulcloud.io — pulcloud.io is Princeton University
  Library's own Google Cloud estate, documented throughout pulibrary/princeton_ansible — so this is Princeton
  infrastructure running open-source software, not a hosted vendor tenancy. Every request currently returns
  401 from Princeton's in-house ALTCHA proof-of-work bot challenge (pulibrary/altcha_rust_server); that
  is a client-verification gate, not authentication, and the June 2026 profile of this repo recorded it
  wrongly.
humanURL: https://dataspace.princeton.edu/about
baseURL: https://dataspace.princeton.edu/server/oai/request
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Research Data
- Theses
properties:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/princeton-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/princeton-lifecycle.yml