UCLouvain

DIAL.pr (BOREAL) -- DSpace-CRIS REST API

DIAL.pr, branded BOREAL, is UCLouvain's institutional repository for the research publications of its professors and staff. It runs DSpace-CRIS 8.1 (cris-2025.01.00) on the UCLouvain host research.dial.uclouvain.be and exposes the DSpace HAL+JSON REST API at /server/api, including a live ORCID integration and a 591-field metadata registry. The repository and its content are UCLouvain's; the REST contract is DSpace-CRIS's, so this is recorded as a tenant deployment. The previously catalogued host dial.uclouvain.be no longer answers -- DIAL has migrated here.

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Documentation
https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract

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Website
https://www.uclouvain.be/en/university-libraries/dial.pr

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: uclouvain:dial-pr-rest
name: DIAL.pr (BOREAL) -- DSpace-CRIS REST API
description: DIAL.pr, branded BOREAL, is UCLouvain's institutional repository for the research publications
  of its professors and staff. It runs DSpace-CRIS 8.1 (cris-2025.01.00) on the UCLouvain host research.dial.uclouvain.be
  and exposes the DSpace HAL+JSON REST API at /server/api, including a live ORCID integration and a 591-field
  metadata registry. The repository and its content are UCLouvain's; the REST contract is DSpace-CRIS's,
  so this is recorded as a tenant deployment. The previously catalogued host dial.uclouvain.be no longer
  answers -- DIAL has migrated here.
humanURL: https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/home
baseURL: https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/server/api
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: GET /server/api returns dspaceVersion "DSpace 8.1", crisVersion "cris-2025.01.00-SNAPSHOT";
  the HAL API contract is authored by the DSpace/DSpace-CRIS projects, not by UCLouvain
x-vendor: DSpace-CRIS (Lyrasis / 4Science)
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- Research Publications
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Library
- Belgium
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/university-libraries/dial.pr