University of Bonn

University of Bonn Datasets API

Retrieve published datasets, their versions, and export metadata from bonndata. Re-verified live 2026-09-01: /datasets/:persistentId?persistentId=doi:10.60507/FK2/BBP6GG returned 200 with 12,647 bytes of citation metadata, and /datasets/export?exporter=oai_dc returned 200 application/xml Dublin Core. No API token is required for published content. The OpenAPI server base is https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/api; the baseURL above names a verified endpoint instead, because /api itself has no index and returns 404.

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Operations 3

GET /datasets/{id} Get a dataset #

GET /datasets/{id}/versions List dataset versions #

GET /datasets/export Export dataset metadata #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: bonndata Dataverse Native REST API (Public Read Subset)…
  description: Public, read-only subset of the Dataverse Native REST API as exposed by bonndata, the University of Bonn institutional research data repository (https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de).
  version: 6.7.1
  contact:
    name: bonndata Research Data Repository, University of Bonn
    email: bonndata@uni-bonn.de
    url: https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/
  license:
    name: Apache License 2.0
    url: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/develop/LICENSE.md
servers:
- url: https://bonndata.uni-bonn.de/api
  description: bonndata Dataverse Native API base (verified live, 362 indexed datasets)
tags:
- name: Datasets
  description: Retrieve published datasets, their versions, and export metadata.
paths:
  /datasets/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Datasets
      summary: Get a dataset
      description: Retrieve a published dataset by its numeric database id, or by persistent identifier using the literal path segment ":persistentId" together with the persistentId query parameter (e.g. /datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=doi:10.60507/FK2/BBP6GG).
      operationId: Datasets_getDataset
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Numeric dataset id, or the literal ":persistentId".
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: persistentId
        in: query
        description: Persistent identifier (DOI/Handle) when id is ":persistentId".
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: returnOwners
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The dataset and its latest published version.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiEnvelope'
  /datasets/{id}/versions:
    get:
      tags:
      - Datasets
      summary: List dataset versions
      operationId: Datasets_listVersions
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: excludeFiles
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: excludeMetadataBlocks
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: offset
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of dataset versions.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiEnvelope'
  /datasets/export:
    get:
      tags:
      - Datasets
      summary: Export dataset metadata
      description: Export the metadata of a published dataset in a chosen format (e.g. Datacite, dataverse_json, oai_dc, schema.org, ddi).
      operationId: Datasets_exportDataset
      parameters:
      - name: persistentId
        in: query
        description: Persistent identifier (DOI/Handle) of the dataset.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: exporter
        in: query
        description: Export format name.
        schema:
          type: string
          example: schema.org
      - name: version
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Exported metadata in the requested format.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
            application/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  schemas:
    ApiEnvelope:
      type: object
      description: Standard Dataverse API response envelope.
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - OK
          - ERROR
        data:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        message:
          type: string
      required:
      - status
externalDocs:
  description: Dataverse Native API guide
  url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html

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