Tokyo Institute of Technology OAI PMH API

OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol verbs. All six verbs are dispatched from a single path via the `verb` query parameter.

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GET /OAIHandler OAI-PMH 2.0 request dispatcher #

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OpenAPI Specification

tokyo-institute-of-technology-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: T2R2 Research Repository OAI PMH API
  version: '2.0'
  summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the Science Tokyo / Tokyo Tech Research Repository (T2R2).
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint operated by the Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology) at t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp, on the institution's own registrable domain.
  contact:
    name: Library Infrastructure Group, Library Information Management Division, Institute of Science Tokyo
    email: t2r2@libra.titech.ac.jp
    url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/001/about/organizations/library
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: servers[] host t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp is under titech.ac.jp, a registrable domain of the institution; the OAI-PMH Identify response names adminEmail t2r2@libra.titech.ac.jp, also an institution domain. No vendor host, vendor contact or vendor product name appears in the endpoint's self-description beyond the OAICat toolkit block, which names the software, not the operator.
  x-provenance:
    method: derived
    generated: '2026-08-30'
    source: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler?verb=Identify
    protocol: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/
    note: Derived from live protocol probes plus the OAI-PMH 2.0 specification. Not published by the institution. Do not credit this document to the Institute of Science Tokyo as something they authored.
  license:
    name: Not stated by the operator
    identifier: NOASSERTION
servers:
- url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh
  description: Production harvesting host. The Identify response advertises baseURL over http://; https is served and was used for every probe.
tags:
- name: oai pmh
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol verbs. All six verbs are dispatched from a single path via the `verb` query parameter.
paths:
  /OAIHandler:
    get:
      operationId: oaipmh
      summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 request dispatcher
      description: Single OAI-PMH entry point. The `verb` parameter selects the operation. The endpoint returns HTTP 200 for every well-formed HTTP request, including protocol errors — an OAI-PMH error is carried in the response body as , never as a 4xx. No authentication, no signup and no rate-limit headers were observed.
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      security: []
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: OAI-PMH protocol verb.
        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; omitting it returns badArgument. Verified supported values: oai_dc, junii2.'
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - junii2
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 'Record identifier, required for GetRecord. Observed form: oai:t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp:00215682'
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^oai:t2r2\.star\.titech\.ac\.jp:[0-9]+$
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower datestamp bound. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, per Identify.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper datestamp bound. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, per Identify.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set spec. This repository does NOT support sets — ListSets returns error code noSetHierarchy, verified 2026-08-30.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token returned with a truncated list response.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An OAI-PMH 2.0 response envelope. Carries either the verb's result element or an <error> element; both are returned with HTTP 200.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIPMHResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    Identify:
      type: object
      description: Values below are the live values observed on 2026-08-30, not placeholders.
      properties:
        repositoryName:
          type: string
          examples:
          - T2R2 -Tokyo Tech Research Repository-
        baseURL:
          type: string
          format: uri
          examples:
          - http://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler
        protocolVersion:
          type: string
          examples:
          - '2.0'
        adminEmail:
          type: string
          examples:
          - mailto:t2r2@libra.titech.ac.jp
        earliestDatestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          examples:
          - '2008-05-01T00:00:00Z'
        deletedRecord:
          type: string
          examples:
          - 'no'
        granularity:
          type: string
          examples:
          - YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
        compression:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            enum:
            - gzip
            - deflate
    OAIPMHResponse:
      type: object
      title: OAI-PMH response envelope
      description: XML document rooted at {http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/}OAI-PMH. Modelled here as an object because OpenAPI has no native XSD import; the authoritative schema is http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd.
      xml:
        name: OAI-PMH
        namespace: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/
      properties:
        responseDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        request:
          type: string
          format: uri
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIPMHError'
        Identify:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Identify'
    OAIPMHError:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          enum:
          - badArgument
          - badResumptionToken
          - badVerb
          - cannotDisseminateFormat
          - idDoesNotExist
          - noRecordsMatch
          - noMetadataFormats
          - noSetHierarchy
        message:
          type: string