# DIAL.pr OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-pr-oai/  
**Provider:** UCLouvain — https://apis.io/providers/uclouvain/  
**Base URL:** https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/server/oai/request  
**Documentation:** https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/home

DIAL.pr OAI-PMH is one of 9 APIs that [UCLouvain](https://apis.io/providers/uclouvain/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Institutional Repository, Metadata, Open Access, and Harvesting. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for DIAL.pr, UCLouvain's research-publications repository. Identify returns repositoryName "Dial.pr", adminEmail bibsys@uclouvain.be, earliestDatestamp 2026-04-07 (the migration date onto DSpace-CRIS). ListMetadataFormats advertises oai_dc, mods, mets and didl. Institution-operated: the protocol is an open standard and the endpoint, host and contact are UCLouvain's.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/conformance/uclouvain-education-standards.yml

## Other UCLouvain APIs (8)

- [Orthanc API](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/orthanc-api/)
- [Open Data @ UCLouvain -- Dataverse deployment (Native + Search API)](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dataverse-native-api/)
- [Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dataverse-oai/)
- [DIAL.pr (BOREAL) -- DSpace-CRIS REST API](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-pr-rest/)
- [DIAL.mem -- DSpace-CRIS REST API](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-mem-rest/)
- [DIAL.mem OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/dial-mem-oai/)
- [OER-UCLouvain OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/oer-oai/)
- [UCLouvain Shibboleth Identity Provider -- SAML 2.0 metadata](https://apis.io/apis/uclouvain/identity-federation/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Institutional Repository, Metadata, Open Access, Harvesting

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