# data.bris Research Data Repository

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/data-bris-research-data-repository/  
**Provider:** University of Bristol — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/  
**Base URL:** https://data.bris.ac.uk/datasets/  
**Documentation:** https://data.bris.ac.uk/datasets/

data.bris Research Data Repository is one of 5 APIs that [University of Bristol](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Open Data, Research Repository, DataCite, and DOI. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

data.bris is the University of Bristol's own research data repository — institution-built and institution-hosted, not a Figshare, Dataverse or DSpace tenancy. DataCite lists it as client BL.BRISTOL, "University of Bristol", a member since 2012, and 1,552 DOIs have been minted under the institution's own prefix 10.5523/bris. It is a repository rather than an API: no search, OAI-PMH or REST interface answered on this host, and https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/oai returned 404. The dataset payload index at /datasets/ is a plain HTML directory listing served anonymously. Recorded honestly as an operational problem, not padded over: the DataCite-registered landing-page base https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/ returned HTTP 200 carrying a "504 Gateway Timeout" body on first request and then reset the connection on every subsequent attempt across a twenty-minute window on 2026-08-30, so every one of those 1,552 DOIs currently resolves (302) to an unreachable page.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenData** — https://data.bris.ac.uk/datasets/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-bristol-domain-standards.yml
- **Lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/university-of-bristol-lifecycle.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/researchers/data/

## Other University of Bristol APIs (4)

- [University of Bristol Research Portal OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/research-portal-oai-pmh/)
- [University of Bristol Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML 2.0)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/idp-shibboleth/)
- [Elsevier Pure Web Services (University of Bristol tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/pure-web-services/)
- [University of Bristol Library Discovery (OCLC WorldCat Discovery)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/library-discovery-worldcat/)

## Tags

Research Data, Open Data, Research Repository, DataCite, DOI

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