University of Aberdeen

AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)

AURA's OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, repositoryName "Aura", repositoryIdentifier aura.abdn.ac.uk, adminEmail aura-manager@abdn.ac.uk, earliest datestamp 2005-10-10. ListMetadataFormats offers thirteen formats — oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, xoai, dim, rdf, marc, etdms, rioxx and uketd_dc — of which rioxx (UK research outputs) and uketd_dc (UK electronic theses) are UK-specific compliance profiles. This is the University's research record, harvestable by anyone, and it is the strongest reason the institution appears in aggregators at all. Same operator caveat as the REST API: the endpoint lives on Edinburgh Information Services infrastructure via CNAME.

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https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-aberdeen/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-aberdeen-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-aberdeen:aura-oai-pmh
name: AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)
description: 'AURA''s OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, repositoryName "Aura", repositoryIdentifier aura.abdn.ac.uk,
  adminEmail aura-manager@abdn.ac.uk, earliest datestamp 2005-10-10. ListMetadataFormats offers thirteen
  formats — oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, xoai, dim, rdf, marc, etdms, rioxx and uketd_dc — of which
  rioxx (UK research outputs) and uketd_dc (UK electronic theses) are UK-specific compliance profiles.
  This is the University''s research record, harvestable by anyone, and it is the strongest reason the
  institution appears in aggregators at all. Same operator caveat as the REST API: the endpoint lives
  on Edinburgh Information Services infrastructure via CNAME.'
humanURL: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/open-research/open-access/
baseURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/oai/request
tags:
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-aberdeen-conformance.yml
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-basis: 'DNS: aura.abdn.ac.uk CNAME aura.abdn-lb.is.ed.ac.uk, A 129.215.5.66 (University of
  Edinburgh). OAI-PMH is a protocol implemented by DSpace, not by Aberdeen.'
x-vendor: DSpace (LYRASIS), deployed by University of Edinburgh Information Services
x-probe:
  baseURL_status: 200
  identify_status: 200
  listmetadataformats_status: 200
  availability: intermittent
  note: Same intermittency as the REST API on the same host — mostly 200 in ~0.37s, occasionally a 30-40s
    hang. Live, degraded, not dead.
  probed: '2026-09-01'