DDD — Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (OAI-PMH 2.0)

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: UAB Dipòsit Digital de Documents (DDD) — Harvesting and Export Interface
  version: '1.0.0'
  summary: >-
    Anonymous, machine-readable harvesting and metadata-export interface for the Dipòsit
    Digital de Documents de la UAB, the institutional repository of the Universitat
    Autònoma de Barcelona.
  description: >-
    THIS CONTRACT IS DERIVED, NOT PUBLISHED BY UAB. The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    publishes no OpenAPI for this interface. This document was written by API Evangelist on
    2026-09-01 from live probes of https://ddd.uab.cat — every operation, parameter,
    response media type and enumerated value below was exercised against the running
    service, and the captured responses are stored beside it in examples/. Nothing here is
    inferred from vendor documentation or from another institution's contract.

    What it describes is genuinely UAB's. ddd.uab.cat is a CNAME to mompou.uab.cat and
    resolves to 158.109.2.47, inside 158.109.0.0/16 — RIPE netname XIUAB, "Xarxa Informatica
    de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)". The OAI-PMH Identify response names the
    repository "Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB", declares repositoryIdentifier
    ddd.uab.cat, and gives adminEmail ddd.bib@uab.cat. The repository software is Invenio,
    originally from CERN, but the deployment, the hosts, the 18 sets and the 221,931 records
    are the institution's.

    Two sibling repositories run the same interface on the same UAB infrastructure and are
    declared as OAI-PMH "friends" by DDD itself: traces.uab.cat (Traces, a Catalan language
    and literature database) and ifmuc.uab.cat (IFMuC, the Inventory of Music Collections of
    Catalonia). Both are listed as additional servers below.
  contact:
    name: Servei de Biblioteques de la UAB — Dipòsit Digital de Documents
    email: ddd.bib@uab.cat
    url: https://www.uab.cat/en/libraries/digital-document-repository
  license:
    name: CC0 1.0 Universal (metadata records)
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  termsOfService: https://www.uab.cat/web/about-the-uab/itineraries/legal-notice-1345668684716.html
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: >-
    Host under the institution's own registrable domain AND inside the institution's own
    RIPE allocation (158.109.2.47, netname XIUAB). Confirmed by the service's own Identify
    response, which self-reports repositoryIdentifier ddd.uab.cat and a uab.cat admin
    address. No CNAME onto any vendor platform.
  x-provenance:
    method: derived
    generated: '2026-09-01'
    derived_from: probed
    source:
    - https://ddd.uab.cat/oai2d?verb=Identify
    - https://ddd.uab.cat/oai2d?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    - https://ddd.uab.cat/oai2d?verb=ListSets
    - 'https://ddd.uab.cat/oai2d?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=coldb'
    - 'https://ddd.uab.cat/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:ddd.uab.cat:335819'
    - https://ddd.uab.cat/search?p=barcelona&of=xm
    - https://ddd.uab.cat/search?p=barcelona&of=xd
    examples: examples/uab-examples.yml
    note: >-
      Written by API Evangelist from observed behaviour. It must not be read as a
      UAB-published specification, and it must not be credited to UAB as though the
      institution authored it.
servers:
- url: https://ddd.uab.cat
  description: Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB — the main institutional repository
- url: https://traces.uab.cat
  description: Traces — base de dades de llengua i literatura catalanes (same interface, UAB-operated)
- url: https://ifmuc.uab.cat
  description: IFMuC — Inventari dels Fons Musicals de Catalunya (same interface, UAB-operated)
tags:
- name: OAI-PMH
  description: >-
    Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0. The repository is
    OpenAIRE-compliant and is harvested by Google Scholar, BASE and CORE.
  externalDocs:
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
    description: OAI-PMH 2.0 specification
- name: Search
  description: >-
    Invenio search with machine-readable output formats, used for record export outside
    the OAI-PMH flow.
paths:
  /oai2d:
    get:
      tags:
      - OAI-PMH
      operationId: oaiRequest
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request
      description: >-
        Single OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint. The `verb` parameter selects the operation; the other
        parameters are the ones each verb accepts under the OAI-PMH specification. All six
        verbs were exercised against the live service. Responses are XML in the
        http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ namespace and carry an xml-stylesheet
        processing instruction pointing at https://ddd.uab.cat/css/oai2.xsl.v1.0 for
        browser rendering. Protocol-level failures are reported as HTTP 200 with an
        <error> element carrying an OAI-PMH error code, not as an HTTP error status.
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The OAI-PMH operation to perform.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: >-
          Metadata format for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord. The four values
          enumerated here are exactly those returned by ListMetadataFormats on 2026-09-01.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - marcxml
          - edm
          - oai_openaire
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: >-
          OAI identifier of a single record, for GetRecord. Scheme `oai`, repository
          identifier `ddd.uab.cat`, delimiter `:` — for example oai:ddd.uab.cat:335819.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: '^oai:[a-z0-9.-]+:[0-9]+$'
        example: 'oai:ddd.uab.cat:335819'
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: >-
          Restrict a listing to one harvestable set. Eighteen sets were returned by
          ListSets on 2026-09-01; the enumeration below is that full list.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - tesisuab
          - uabeuropeana
          - fanzins
          - datasets
          - scholar
          - worpapuab
          - artpubuabnoredi
          - primocentral
          - raac
          - driver
          - estudisuab
          - trerecprouab
          - materials_docents
          - prepubuab
          - plagesdad
          - poncomuab
          - artpubuab
          - revuab
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: >-
          Lower bound on record datestamp. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, as declared by
          Identify. The repository's earliest datestamp is 2006-03-13T16:18:25Z.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound on record datestamp, same granularity as `from`.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: >-
          Continuation token returned by a previous incomplete list response. Exclusive of
          all other arguments except `verb`.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: >-
            An OAI-PMH response document. Also the status used for protocol-level errors,
            which appear as an <error> element with an OAI-PMH error code such as
            badVerb, badArgument, cannotDisseminateFormat, idDoesNotExist or noRecordsMatch.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                contentMediaType: text/xml
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Identify — repository description
                  externalValue: examples/uab-ddd-oai-identify.xml
                listMetadataFormats:
                  summary: ListMetadataFormats — the four supported prefixes
                  externalValue: examples/uab-ddd-oai-listmetadataformats.xml
                listSets:
                  summary: ListSets — the eighteen harvestable sets
                  externalValue: examples/uab-ddd-oai-listsets.xml
                getRecord:
                  summary: GetRecord — one record in Dublin Core
                  externalValue: examples/uab-ddd-oai-getrecord.xml
  /search:
    get:
      tags:
      - Search
      operationId: searchExport
      summary: Search the repository and export matching records
      description: >-
        Invenio search endpoint. With a machine-readable `of` (output format) value it
        returns records rather than HTML, which makes it the practical export route for
        selections that do not map onto an OAI-PMH set. A comment at the top of each XML
        response reports the total match count as
        `Search-Engine-Total-Number-Of-Results`; an unrestricted query reported 221,931
        records on 2026-09-01. Only the output formats actually exercised are enumerated
        below.
      parameters:
      - name: p
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Search pattern.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: barcelona
      - name: of
        in: query
        required: false
        description: >-
          Output format. `xm` returns MARC21 XML in the http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim
          namespace; `xd` returns Dublin Core XML; `hx` returns BibTeX. The default is the
          HTML interface.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - xm
          - xd
          - hx
        example: xd
      - name: c
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Restrict the search to a named collection.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: rg
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Number of records per response page.
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        example: 2
      - name: jrec
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Index of the first record to return, for paging.
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Matching records in the requested output format.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                contentMediaType: text/xml
              examples:
                dublinCore:
                  summary: Dublin Core export (of=xd)
                  externalValue: examples/uab-ddd-search-dublin-core.xml
externalDocs:
  url: https://www.uab.cat/en/libraries/digital-document-repository
  description: DDD service page, Servei de Biblioteques de la UAB