# University of Alberta Borealis OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-alberta/borealis-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of Alberta — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-alberta/  
**Base URL:** https://borealisdata.ca/oai  
**Documentation:** https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html

University of Alberta Borealis OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting is one of 4 APIs that [University of Alberta](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-alberta/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Research Data, and Repository. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Published University of Alberta collections and datasets on Borealis are harvestable via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), allowing other repositories and discovery systems to harvest dataset metadata. The Identify verb resolves live at the Borealis OAI endpoint.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-alberta/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Alberta APIs (3)

- [University of Alberta Info API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-alberta/university-of-alberta-info-api/)
- [University of Alberta Search API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-alberta/university-of-alberta-search-api/)
- [University of Alberta Library Open Source (GitHub)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-alberta/library-open-source/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Research Data, Repository

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