University of Helsinki

Helda DSpace REST API

Public HAL REST API for Helda, the University's open institutional repository, running DSpace 7.6.2. Discovery/search, items, collections, communities and the metadata registry are all readable anonymously. Its metadata registry is where the standards evidence lives: datacite, oaire and coar schemas are registered, and ten ORCID fields including the DSpace ORCID member-integration sync set.

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APIReference
https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-helsinki/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-helsinki-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-helsinki:helda-rest
name: Helda DSpace REST API
description: 'Public HAL REST API for Helda, the University''s open institutional repository, running
  DSpace 7.6.2. Discovery/search, items, collections, communities and the metadata registry are all readable
  anonymously. Its metadata registry is where the standards evidence lives: datacite, oaire and coar schemas
  are registered, and ten ORCID fields including the DSpace ORCID member-integration sync set.'
humanURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/
baseURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Repository
- DSpace
- Research
- Open Access
- Scholarly
- ORCID
- DataCite
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-helsinki-conformance.yml