University of Auckland

ResearchSpace OAI-PMH 2.0 Service

Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for ResearchSpace, the University's self-hosted DSpace institutional repository. Verified 2026-08-30 - Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0 and granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ; ListMetadataFormats advertises thirteen prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, dim, xoai, mods, mets, didl, ore, rdf, marc, etdms, uketd_dc, rioxx); ListSets resolves to real institutional collections including A1 Research Outputs Online, A2 Digital Doctoral Theses, A4 Dataset Archive, the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, CDMTCS Research Reports and Measina o le Pasefika. Records carry handles under the 2292 prefix. The software is DSpace's; the deployment, the host, the sets and the records are the University's, so the surface is recorded and no DSpace specification is saved under this slug.

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https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify

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

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-auckland:researchspace-oai
name: ResearchSpace OAI-PMH 2.0 Service
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Hosted on researchspace.auckland.ac.nz (CNAME dspace-f5vip.itss.auckland.ac.nz, the
  University's own ITSS load balancer). The Identify response names the repository "ResearchSpace at The
  University of Auckland" with adminEmail researchspace@auckland.ac.nz and repositoryIdentifier researchspace.auckland.ac.nz.
description: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for ResearchSpace, the University's self-hosted
  DSpace institutional repository. Verified 2026-08-30 - Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0 and granularity
  YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ; ListMetadataFormats advertises thirteen prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, dim, xoai, mods,
  mets, didl, ore, rdf, marc, etdms, uketd_dc, rioxx); ListSets resolves to real institutional collections
  including A1 Research Outputs Online, A2 Digital Doctoral Theses, A4 Dataset Archive, the Auckland Bioengineering
  Institute, CDMTCS Research Reports and Measina o le Pasefika. Records carry handles under the 2292 prefix.
  The software is DSpace's; the deployment, the host, the sets and the records are the University's, so
  the surface is recorded and no DSpace specification is saved under this slug.
humanURL: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/server/oai/request
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Research Repository
- Metadata
- Harvesting
- DSpace
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-auckland-conformance.yml
  method: probed
- type: Documentation
  url: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify