University of Alberta

University of Alberta Research Data Collection on Borealis

The University of Alberta's research data collection on Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository operated by Scholars Portal / Ontario Council of University Libraries. The collection is scoped by the dataverse alias "ualberta" and is reachable through the shared Dataverse Native and Search APIs and the shared OAI-PMH archive at borealisdata.ca/oai, whose Identify response names the consortium, not the university. Five other institutions in this cohort point at the same host, which is precisely why the generic Dataverse contract is not saved here: the data is the university's, the API is Borealis's.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/index.html
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Documentation
https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/search.html
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Documentation
https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html
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Authentication
https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/getting-started.html

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-alberta:borealis-research-data
name: University of Alberta Research Data Collection on Borealis
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The University of Alberta''s research data collection on Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse
  Repository operated by Scholars Portal / Ontario Council of University Libraries. The collection is
  scoped by the dataverse alias "ualberta" and is reachable through the shared Dataverse Native and Search
  APIs and the shared OAI-PMH archive at borealisdata.ca/oai, whose Identify response names the consortium,
  not the university. Five other institutions in this cohort point at the same host, which is precisely
  why the generic Dataverse contract is not saved here: the data is the university''s, the API is Borealis''s.'
humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/ualberta
baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
tags:
- Research Data
- Dataverse
- OAI-PMH
- Repository
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/index.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/search.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html
- type: Authentication
  url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/getting-started.html