University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

IDEALS OAI-PMH

The OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for IDEALS, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship. Identify reports repositoryName "IDEALS @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign", adminEmail ideals@library.illinois.edu, earliestDatestamp 2022-06-06, deletedRecord "persistent" and second-granularity datestamps; four metadata formats are served (oai_dc, qdc, etdms, native) across 100 sets. Institution-operated rather than tenant — the repository runs on Illinois Library's own Rails codebase (github.com/medusa-project/ideals), not on a vendor repository platform.

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Documentation
https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals

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Website
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
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SourceCode
https://github.com/medusa-project

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:ideals-oai-pmh
name: IDEALS OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: The OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for IDEALS, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to
  Learning and Scholarship. Identify reports repositoryName "IDEALS @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign",
  adminEmail ideals@library.illinois.edu, earliestDatestamp 2022-06-06, deletedRecord "persistent" and
  second-granularity datestamps; four metadata formats are served (oai_dc, qdc, etdms, native) across
  100 sets. Institution-operated rather than tenant — the repository runs on Illinois Library's own Rails
  codebase (github.com/medusa-project/ideals), not on a vendor repository platform.
humanURL: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals
baseURL: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- Metadata
- Open Data
- Dublin Core
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/medusa-project