University of Birmingham

UBIRA eData (EPrints OAI-PMH + REST)

UBIRA eData is the University of Birmingham's own EPrints research-data repository, running on Birmingham infrastructure (edata.bham.ac.uk resolves to 147.188.217.239, the University's own address space). It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider — Identify returns repositoryName "UBIRA eData" and adminEmail research-data@contacts.bham.ac.uk, ListMetadataFormats offers oai_dc, didl and rdf — plus the EPrints REST interface at /rest/ and an OpenSearch description document. Deposits are assigned DOIs under the University's own DataCite prefix 10.25500, registered to the DataCite client "University of Birmingham - eData". The repository software is EPrints (open source, not a hosted vendor tenancy) and the endpoint, the host and the records are the institution's.

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https://edata.bham.ac.uk/policies.html
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APIReference
https://edata.bham.ac.uk/rest/

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-birmingham/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-birmingham:edata
name: UBIRA eData (EPrints OAI-PMH + REST)
x-operator: institution
description: UBIRA eData is the University of Birmingham's own EPrints research-data repository, running
  on Birmingham infrastructure (edata.bham.ac.uk resolves to 147.188.217.239, the University's own address
  space). It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider — Identify returns repositoryName "UBIRA eData" and adminEmail
  research-data@contacts.bham.ac.uk, ListMetadataFormats offers oai_dc, didl and rdf — plus the EPrints
  REST interface at /rest/ and an OpenSearch description document. Deposits are assigned DOIs under the
  University's own DataCite prefix 10.25500, registered to the DataCite client "University of Birmingham
  - eData". The repository software is EPrints (open source, not a hosted vendor tenancy) and the endpoint,
  the host and the records are the institution's.
humanURL: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- EPrints
- Open Data
- DataCite
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/policies.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/rest/