University of Gothenburg

University of Gothenburg OAI PMH API

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0

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GET /request Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University of Gothenburg — GUPEA 2.0 Interface OAI PMH API
  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.
  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.

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