GUPEA Repository OAI-PMH 2.0 Interface

GUPEA (Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive) is the Gothenburg University Library's institutional repository, running DSpace 8.3. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint is institution-operated: the host is gupea.ub.gu.se, the Identify response names the repository GUPEA with repository identifier gupea.ub.gu.se, admin contact gup@ub.gu.se and an earliest datestamp of 1906-05-30. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returned HTTP 200 text/xml and verb=ListMetadataFormats returned fourteen formats, among them `uppsok` — the Swedish national student-thesis harvesting profile — and `rioxx` v3.0. No OpenAPI is published for this endpoint; the one in this repository is DERIVED from those probes.

Operations 1

GET /request Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request #

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OpenAPI Specification

university-of-gothenburg-gupea-oai-pmh-openapi.yml Raw ↑
# x-method: derived
# x-source-url: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
# Written by API Evangelist for the api-evangelist/university-of-gothenburg repo on
# 2026-09-01. `x-method` uses the provenance-manifest vocabulary; the artifact's own
# `method:` key uses the enrichment-contract vocabulary. They are not in conflict.
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: University of Gothenburg — GUPEA OAI-PMH 2.0 Interface
  version: '2.0'
  description: >-
    OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for GUPEA (Gothenburg University Publications
    Electronic Archive), the University of Gothenburg Library's institutional repository.


    This is an institution-operated surface. The endpoint lives on `gupea.ub.gu.se`, a University
    of Gothenburg host; the Identify response names the repository `GUPEA`, gives the repository
    identifier `gupea.ub.gu.se`, the admin contact `gup@ub.gu.se` and an earliest datestamp of
    1906-05-30. The software underneath is DSpace 8.3 — an open-source product, not a vendor
    tenancy — and the deployment, the host, the content and the contact are the University's.


    DERIVED. The University publishes no OpenAPI for this endpoint. OAI-PMH is a
    query-parameter protocol, so this document describes it the way the protocol actually works:
    one operation carrying a `verb` parameter. Every value below was read from a live response
    captured on 2026-09-01 and stored verbatim under `examples/`.
  contact:
    name: GUPEA repository administration, Gothenburg University Library
    email: gup@ub.gu.se
    url: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/
  x-operator: institution
  x-institution: University of Gothenburg
  x-software: DSpace 8.3-SNAPSHOT OAI-PMH module
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-09-01'
    method: derived
    source: >-
      Live probes of https://gupea.ub.gu.se/server/oai/request with verb=Identify and
      verb=ListMetadataFormats on 2026-09-01; both returned HTTP 200 text/xml. Responses captured
      verbatim at examples/university-of-gothenburg-gupea-oai-identify-example.xml and
      examples/university-of-gothenburg-gupea-oai-metadata-formats-example.xml.
servers:
  - url: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/server/oai
    description: GUPEA OAI-PMH request endpoint
tags:
  - name: OAI-PMH
    description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
paths:
  /request:
    get:
      tags: [OAI-PMH]
      operationId: oaiRequest
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request
      description: >-
        All six OAI-PMH verbs are issued against this one path, selected by the `verb` query
        parameter. Verified: `Identify` (200, repositoryName GUPEA) and `ListMetadataFormats`
        (200, fourteen formats). No authentication is required.
      parameters:
        - name: verb
          in: query
          required: true
          description: The OAI-PMH verb.
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, GetRecord]
        - name: metadataPrefix
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            Metadata format. Fourteen prefixes were advertised by this repository on 2026-09-01;
            see vocabulary/university-of-gothenburg-oai-metadata-formats-vocabulary.yml.
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [oai_dc, didl, mods, ore, mets, xoai, dim, rioxx, uketd_dc, qdc, rdf, marc, etdms, uppsok]
        - name: identifier
          in: query
          required: false
          description: 'Record identifier, e.g. oai:gupea.ub.gu.se:2077/1234 (sampleIdentifier from Identify).'
          schema: { type: string }
        - name: set
          in: query
          required: false
          schema: { type: string }
        - name: from
          in: query
          required: false
          description: 'Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, as declared by Identify.'
          schema: { type: string, format: date-time }
        - name: until
          in: query
          required: false
          schema: { type: string, format: date-time }
        - name: resumptionToken
          in: query
          required: false
          schema: { type: string }
      responses:
        '200':
          description: >-
            An OAI-PMH XML envelope. Protocol errors are also returned with HTTP 200 and an
            <error> element carrying an OAI-PMH error code — see
            errors/university-of-gothenburg-errors.yml.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                description: OAI-PMH 2.0 XML envelope.