TU Dresden

OPARA Research Data Repository REST API

The DSpace 7.6.2 REST API of OPARA, the open-access research-data repository ZIH operates for TU Dresden and three further Saxon institutions. The HAL root at /server/api is served anonymously and links roughly sixty resource families — communities, collections, items, bundles, bitstreams and bitstream formats under /core; a faceted discovery service under /discover with search/objects and browses; authentication and authorization under /authn and /authz; eperson and group administration; workflow and submission endpoints; external-source integration; and a Spring Boot actuator. Read access to public material needs no credential: /server/api/core/collections and /server/api/discover/search/objects both return live JSON unauthenticated. Deposits carry DataCite DOIs under TU Dresden's own prefix 10.25532, minted by client tib.zih, with the publisher field reading "Technische Universität Dresden". TU Dresden publishes no OpenAPI for it and none has been authored here; the contract shape is DSpace's upstream REST contract, which belongs in the DSpace project's own record.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/projekte/opara
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/authentication/tu-dresden-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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Website
https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
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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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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/conformance/tu-dresden-education-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tu-dresden:opara-rest
name: OPARA Research Data Repository REST API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: 'opara.zih.tu-dresden.de is under TU Dresden''s own registrable domain, on the ZIH
  subdomain. The DSpace HAL root at /server/api self-reports dspaceName "OPARA Research Data Repository"
  and dspaceServer https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/server; the OAI-PMH Identify names adminEmail servicedesk@tu-dresden.de;
  and DataCite registers the repository client tib.zih under the name "OPARA" with url https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/,
  owned by provider KIYB, "Zentrum für Informationsdienste und Hochleistungsrechnen - Technische Universität
  Dresden", rorId https://ror.org/042aqky30. DSpace is open-source software TU Dresden self-hosts, not
  a vendor SaaS tenancy — there is no vendor CNAME and no shared platform host. TU Dresden is the operator
  here for other institutions too: the repository''s OAI sets carry TU Bergakademie Freiberg, HTW Dresden
  and Hochschule Mittweida alongside its own.'
description: 'The DSpace 7.6.2 REST API of OPARA, the open-access research-data repository ZIH operates
  for TU Dresden and three further Saxon institutions. The HAL root at /server/api is served anonymously
  and links roughly sixty resource families — communities, collections, items, bundles, bitstreams and
  bitstream formats under /core; a faceted discovery service under /discover with search/objects and browses;
  authentication and authorization under /authn and /authz; eperson and group administration; workflow
  and submission endpoints; external-source integration; and a Spring Boot actuator. Read access to public
  material needs no credential: /server/api/core/collections and /server/api/discover/search/objects both
  return live JSON unauthenticated. Deposits carry DataCite DOIs under TU Dresden''s own prefix 10.25532,
  minted by client tib.zih, with the publisher field reading "Technische Universität Dresden". TU Dresden
  publishes no OpenAPI for it and none has been authored here; the contract shape is DSpace''s upstream
  REST contract, which belongs in the DSpace project''s own record.'
humanURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
baseURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/server/api
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Open Access
- DSpace
- Archive
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/projekte/opara
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tu-dresden-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/tu-dresden-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tu-dresden-education-standards.yml