TU Dresden

OPARA OAI-PMH Harvesting Interface

The standards-based harvesting interface for OPARA — how TU Dresden's research data reaches OpenAIRE, BASE, re3data and the rest of the aggregator layer. Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2018-04-05T11:49:14Z, deletedRecord transient and granularity to the second. ListMetadataFormats returns twelve prefixes — oai_dc, qdc, mods, didl, ore, mets, rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms and uketd_dc — which is a configured repository rather than a stock install. ListSets exposes named communities for four institutions: Technische Universität Dresden, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden and Hochschule Mittweida, each split into Data Submissions and Research Data Archives. A ListRecords call with metadataPrefix=oai_dc returned 263,680 bytes of live Dublin Core. Protocol errors are returned inside a 200 envelope, as OAI-PMH requires — verb=Bogus yields Illegal verb. The repository is registered in re3data as r3d100012966.

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Documentation
https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/server/oai/request?verb=Identify

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/conformance/tu-dresden-education-standards.yml
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Errors
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/errors/tu-dresden-problem-types.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tu-dresden:opara-oai
name: OPARA OAI-PMH Harvesting Interface
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: 'Same host and same operator as the REST API, and the protocol response says so itself:
  the Identify envelope returns repositoryName "OPARA Research Data Repository", baseURL https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/server/oai/request
  and adminEmail servicedesk@tu-dresden.de. No vendor host, no vendor contact, no shared platform.'
description: 'The standards-based harvesting interface for OPARA — how TU Dresden''s research data reaches
  OpenAIRE, BASE, re3data and the rest of the aggregator layer. Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0,
  earliestDatestamp 2018-04-05T11:49:14Z, deletedRecord transient and granularity to the second. ListMetadataFormats
  returns twelve prefixes — oai_dc, qdc, mods, didl, ore, mets, rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms and uketd_dc
  — which is a configured repository rather than a stock install. ListSets exposes named communities for
  four institutions: Technische Universität Dresden, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Hochschule
  für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden and Hochschule Mittweida, each split into Data Submissions and Research
  Data Archives. A ListRecords call with metadataPrefix=oai_dc returned 263,680 bytes of live Dublin Core.
  Protocol errors are returned inside a 200 envelope, as OAI-PMH requires — verb=Bogus yields <error code="badVerb">Illegal
  verb</error>. The repository is registered in re3data as r3d100012966.'
humanURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
baseURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/server/oai/request
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Harvesting
- Open Access
- Research Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tu-dresden-education-standards.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/tu-dresden-problem-types.yml