# OPARA Research Data Repository REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/tu-dresden/opara-rest/  
**Provider:** TU Dresden — https://apis.io/providers/tu-dresden/  
**Base URL:** https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/

OPARA Research Data Repository REST API is one of 7 APIs that [TU Dresden](https://apis.io/providers/tu-dresden/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Repository, Open Access, DSpace, and Archive. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Website** — https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
- **Documentation** — https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/projekte/opara
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/authentication/tu-dresden-authentication.yml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/errors/tu-dresden-problem-types.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/conformance/tu-dresden-education-standards.yml

## Other TU Dresden APIs (6)

- [TUD:AI LLM API](https://apis.io/apis/tu-dresden/tud-ai-llm/)
- [OPARA OAI-PMH Harvesting Interface](https://apis.io/apis/tu-dresden/opara-oai/)
- [TU Dresden Identity Provider (Shibboleth SAML 2.0 + OpenID Connect)](https://apis.io/apis/tu-dresden/sso-shibboleth/)
- [TU Dresden Lecture Catalog API (Vorlesungsverzeichnis)](https://apis.io/apis/tu-dresden/lecture-catalog/)
- [TU Dresden Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) Web Service](https://apis.io/apis/tu-dresden/fis-pure/)
- [Qucosa TU Dresden OAI-PMH (Institutional Document Server)](https://apis.io/apis/tu-dresden/qucosa-oai/)

## Tags

Research Data, Repository, Open Access, DSpace, Archive

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