University of Bonn

bonndata OAI-PMH Metadata Endpoint

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for bonndata, the University of Bonn institutional research data repository. Re-verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "bonndata Dataverse OAI Archive", baseURL https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/oai, protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail bonndata@uni-bonn.de, earliestDatestamp 2025-07-24T00:00:08Z, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord transient, gzip and deflate compression. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns five prefixes — Datacite, oai_dc, oai_datacite, oai_ddi and dataverse_json (the previous profile claimed OAI-ORE and OpenAIRE here; that was wrong and is corrected). verb=ListSets returns institutional sets including Bonn_Center_Digital_Humanities, Bonn_Mathematics, Medical_Faculty and ZEF. The OAI-PMH protocol is OAI's and the software is the Dataverse project's; the deployment, the host and the metadata are Bonn's.

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Documentation
https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/admin/harvestserver.html

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BaseURL
https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/oai
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bonn/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-bonn:bonndata-oai-pmh
name: bonndata OAI-PMH Metadata Endpoint
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Host bonndata.uni-bonn.de is under the university's own registrable domain and CNAMEs
  to bonndata-produktiv.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (131.220.213.19), the university computing centre — self-hosted,
  not a vendor tenancy.
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for bonndata, the University of Bonn institutional
  research data repository. Re-verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "bonndata
  Dataverse OAI Archive", baseURL https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/oai, protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail bonndata@uni-bonn.de,
  earliestDatestamp 2025-07-24T00:00:08Z, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord transient, gzip
  and deflate compression. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns five prefixes — Datacite, oai_dc, oai_datacite,
  oai_ddi and dataverse_json (the previous profile claimed OAI-ORE and OpenAIRE here; that was wrong and
  is corrected). verb=ListSets returns institutional sets including Bonn_Center_Digital_Humanities, Bonn_Mathematics,
  Medical_Faculty and ZEF. The OAI-PMH protocol is OAI''s and the software is the Dataverse project''s;
  the deployment, the host and the metadata are Bonn''s.'
humanURL: https://www.hrz.uni-bonn.de/en/all-services/data-storage-fileservices/bonndata
baseURL: https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/oai
tags:
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/admin/harvestserver.html
- type: BaseURL
  url: https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/oai