Princeton University

Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIF

Figgy is Princeton University Library's Valkyrie-based digital repository backend (pulibrary/figgy). It serves IIIF manifests for digitised material and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint at /oai whose Identify response names "Princeton University Library", with an earliest datestamp of 2017-10-06 and transient deleted-record support. This is Princeton's verified oai-pmh conformance under the education regime, and unlike most of the cohort the endpoint is on the institution's own host running the institution's own code.

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Documentation
https://github.com/pulibrary/figgy

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/pulibrary/figgy

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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/princeton/refs/heads/main/examples/princeton-figgy-oai-identify.xml
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/princeton/refs/heads/main/conformance/princeton-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: princeton:figgy-oai
name: Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIF
x-operator: institution
description: Figgy is Princeton University Library's Valkyrie-based digital repository backend (pulibrary/figgy).
  It serves IIIF manifests for digitised material and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint
  at /oai whose Identify response names "Princeton University Library", with an earliest datestamp of
  2017-10-06 and transient deleted-record support. This is Princeton's verified oai-pmh conformance under
  the education regime, and unlike most of the cohort the endpoint is on the institution's own host running
  the institution's own code.
humanURL: https://figgy.princeton.edu/
baseURL: https://figgy.princeton.edu/oai
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- IIIF
- Digital Collections
- Library
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/pulibrary/figgy
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/pulibrary/figgy
- type: Examples
  url: examples/princeton-figgy-oai-identify.xml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/princeton-conformance.yml