# Edinburgh DataShare OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/datashare-oai/  
**Provider:** University of Edinburgh — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/  
**Base URL:** https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/server/oai  
**Documentation:** https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/

Edinburgh DataShare OAI-PMH is one of 10 APIs that [University of Edinburgh](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, and Research Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Edinburgh DataShare. Fully anonymous, no key, twelve metadata prefixes including the UK research formats rioxx and uketd_dc. Records carry DataCite DOIs under prefix 10.7488/ds. Earliest datestamp 2008-01-29. This is the most open machine-readable surface the institution operates.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-edinburgh-datashare-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/oai/request?verb=Identify
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-edinburgh-conformance.yml

## Other University of Edinburgh APIs (9)

- [Edinburgh DataShare REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/datashare-repository-api/)
- [Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/era-repository-api/)
- [Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/era-oai/)
- [EIDF Data Catalogue API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/eidf-data-catalogue-api/)
- [ELM — Edinburgh Language Models API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/elm-api/)
- [University of Edinburgh Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/identity-federation/)
- [Enterprise API Gateway (gated)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/enterprise-api-gateway/)
- [Edinburgh Research Explorer (Elsevier Pure) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/pure-research-explorer/)
- [DiscoverEd Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/discovered-primo/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Research Data

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