University College Dublin

Research Repository UCD — DSpace-CRIS REST API (4Science)

A live DSpace-CRIS 7.6.1 HAL REST API on UCD's branded repository host, advertising roughly ninety link relations including items, collections, communities, discover, authn, oidc, orcidqueues, orcidhistories, versions and usagereports. The DATA is UCD's; the CONTRACT is DSpace's and 4Science's. No specification for it is saved in this repository, and none should be — it would credit UCD with a vendor's engineering and would be the same document every other 4Science institution ships. Recorded here because the tenant relationship is a real institutional fact. PROBING NOTE: the repository's human-facing Angular UI is behind a bot challenge — every HTML path, including the site root and item handle pages, returns HTTP 405 with a "Human Verification" body to scripted clients. That is bot-blocked, not dead; the /server/api and /server/oai paths answer normally.

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ResearchRepository
https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/
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x-rest-root
https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/server/api

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucd:dspace-rest
name: Research Repository UCD — DSpace-CRIS REST API (4Science)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: researchrepository.ucd.ie CNAMEs to ucd7.4science.cloud -> ucd-researchrepository.prod.4science.cloud.
  The REST root reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.1" and crisVersion "cris-2023.02.05". The interface,
  its ~90 HAL link relations and its error vocabulary are upstream DSpace-CRIS's, shipped identically
  to every 4Science customer.
description: 'A live DSpace-CRIS 7.6.1 HAL REST API on UCD''s branded repository host, advertising roughly
  ninety link relations including items, collections, communities, discover, authn, oidc, orcidqueues,
  orcidhistories, versions and usagereports. The DATA is UCD''s; the CONTRACT is DSpace''s and 4Science''s.
  No specification for it is saved in this repository, and none should be — it would credit UCD with a
  vendor''s engineering and would be the same document every other 4Science institution ships. Recorded
  here because the tenant relationship is a real institutional fact. PROBING NOTE: the repository''s human-facing
  Angular UI is behind a bot challenge — every HTML path, including the site root and item handle pages,
  returns HTTP 405 with a "Human Verification" body to scripted clients. That is bot-blocked, not dead;
  the /server/api and /server/oai paths answer normally.'
humanURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/
baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/server/api
tags:
- Repository
- DSpace
- Tenant
- Research
- Ireland
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/
- type: x-rest-root
  url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/server/api