# Edinburgh DataShare REST API

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

Edinburgh DataShare REST API 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. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Research Data, DSpace, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema.

DSpace 8.3 REST API for Edinburgh DataShare, the University's open-access research-data repository. Anonymous callers may read communities (110), collections, browse indexes and the discovery search; /core/items and /core/bitstreams return 401. Edinburgh operates the deployment on its own domain — the API shape is DSpace open-source software rather than Edinburgh engineering, but the service, the data and the DOIs are the institution's. The DSpace 6 legacy /rest API this repository previously documented is retired and returns 404.

## Machine-readable artifacts (12)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-edinburgh-datashare-repository-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/research-data-service
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-edinburgh-dspace-community-schema.json
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-edinburgh-datashare-communities-example.json
- **x-spectral-rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/rules/university-of-edinburgh-rules.yml
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/university-of-edinburgh-vocabulary.yml
- **x-json-ld-context** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/json-ld/university-of-edinburgh-context.jsonld
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-edinburgh-authentication.yml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/errors/university-of-edinburgh-errors.yml
- **Lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/university-of-edinburgh-lifecycle.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-edinburgh-conformance.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-edinburgh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Edinburgh APIs (9)

- [Edinburgh DataShare OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-edinburgh/datashare-oai/)
- [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

Research Repository, Research Data, DSpace, Open Access

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