University of Aberdeen

DataCite membership and registered repository

The University of Aberdeen is a DataCite member — provider symbol HUGZ, memberType consortium_organization, organizationType academicInstitution, country GB, region EMEA — and operates one registered DataCite repository, BL.ABDN, of repositoryType "institutional", created 2016-03-30 and pointed at https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/home. The BL. prefix places the membership inside the British Library DataCite consortium. This is a fact about the institution recorded in a shared registry, not a contract the institution publishes; api.datacite.org is DataCite's and is never held under a university slug.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://api.datacite.org/repositories/bl.abdn

Other Resources

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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:datacite-membership
name: DataCite membership and registered repository
description: The University of Aberdeen is a DataCite member — provider symbol HUGZ, memberType consortium_organization,
  organizationType academicInstitution, country GB, region EMEA — and operates one registered DataCite
  repository, BL.ABDN, of repositoryType "institutional", created 2016-03-30 and pointed at https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/home.
  The BL. prefix places the membership inside the British Library DataCite consortium. This is a fact
  about the institution recorded in a shared registry, not a contract the institution publishes; api.datacite.org
  is DataCite's and is never held under a university slug.
humanURL: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/open-research/open-data/
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/hugz
tags:
- Research Data
- DOI
- Persistent Identifiers
- DataCite
- Registry
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.datacite.org/repositories/bl.abdn
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-aberdeen-conformance.yml
x-operator: registry
x-operator-basis: api.datacite.org is an identifier registry shared by every DataCite member. The membership
  record (HUGZ) and the repository record (BL.ABDN) are Aberdeen's; the API is DataCite's.
x-registrant-id: HUGZ
x-repository-id: BL.ABDN
x-probe:
  baseURL_status: 200
  repository_record_status: 200
  probed: '2026-09-01'