University of Lausanne

IRIS Repository Core API (DSpace REST)

Community and collection resources of IRIS, UNIL's institutional research information system and open-access repository, served from UNIL's own host api.unil.ch behind a Kong gateway. /core/communities and /core/collections both confirmed anonymous 200 on 2026-09-01. The software is DSpace-CRIS/IRIS and the REST contract shape is DSpace's, so no vendor spec is imported here — what is saved is UNIL's own deployment, reconstructed from live responses against UNIL's host. iris@unil.ch is the declared administrative contact.

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Operations 3

GET /core/communities List top-level communities #
GET /core/communities/{uuid} Get a community by UUID #
GET /core/collections List collections #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-lausanne/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-lausanne-core-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

university-of-lausanne-core-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: IRIS Repository (DSpace REST API) Core API
  description: Public DSpace 7 REST/HATEOAS API (IRIS version 1.3.13) serving the IRIS institutional research repository at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Exposes communities, collections, items, bundles and bitstreams via a HAL-based hypermedia API. Anonymous read access is available for public content; some endpoints (e.g. /core/items listing) require authentication. This specification was reconstructed from the live API root at https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api and confirmed against live responses; only confirmed public read endpoints and observed object shapes are included.
  version: 1.3.13
  contact:
    name: University of Lausanne - IRIS
    url: https://iris.unil.ch
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-09-01'
    method: probed
    source: Reconstructed by API Evangelist from live responses of https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api on 2026-06-03 and re-probed 2026-09-01 (root, /core/communities, /core/collections, /discover/search/objects, /core/items 401, /core/bitstreams 401). Not published by the University of Lausanne. The software is DSpace-CRIS/IRIS; the deployment, host and content are UNIL's.
servers:
- url: https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api
  description: Production DSpace REST server
tags:
- name: Core
paths:
  /core/communities:
    get:
      operationId: listCommunities
      summary: List top-level communities
      description: Returns a paginated HAL collection of communities in the repository.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/page'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/size'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated collection of communities.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CommunityPage'
      tags:
      - Core
  /core/communities/{uuid}:
    get:
      operationId: getCommunity
      summary: Get a community by UUID
      parameters:
      - name: uuid
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uuid
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A single community.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Community'
        '404':
          description: Community not found.
      tags:
      - Core
  /core/collections:
    get:
      operationId: listCollections
      summary: List collections
      description: Returns a paginated HAL collection of the collections held in IRIS. Confirmed anonymous read on 2026-09-01.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/page'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/size'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated collection of collections.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CollectionPage'
      tags:
      - Core
components:
  parameters:
    page:
      name: page
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Zero-based page index.
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 0
    size:
      name: size
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Number of elements per page.
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 20
  schemas:
    Collection:
      type: object
      description: A DSpace collection inside an IRIS community.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        uuid:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        name:
          type: string
          example: Dataset or other products
        handle:
          type: string
          example: iris/9
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Metadata'
        archivedItemsCount:
          type: integer
          description: Archived item count; -1 when not computed.
          example: -1
        type:
          type: string
          example: collection
        uniqueType:
          type: string
          example: core.collection
        _links:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
    CollectionPage:
      type: object
      description: A paginated HAL collection of IRIS collections.
      properties:
        _embedded:
          type: object
          properties:
            collections:
              type: array
              items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Collection'
        page:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageInfo'
        _links:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
    Community:
      type: object
      description: A DSpace community (top-level container of collections).
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          example: b237fe8c-78b9-4bf5-9658-f03c354851b8
        uuid:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          example: b237fe8c-78b9-4bf5-9658-f03c354851b8
        name:
          type: string
          example: IRIS
        handle:
          type: string
          example: iris/1
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Metadata'
        archivedItemsCount:
          type: integer
        type:
          type: string
          example: community
        uniqueType:
          type: string
        _links:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
          description: HAL links (collections, logo, subcommunities, parentCommunity, adminGroup, self).
    CommunityPage:
      type: object
      description: A paginated HAL collection of communities.
      properties:
        _embedded:
          type: object
          properties:
            communities:
              type: array
              items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Community'
        _links:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        page:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageInfo'
    Metadata:
      type: object
      description: DSpace metadata map keyed by qualified field name (e.g. dc.title), each mapping to an ordered list of metadata values.
      additionalProperties:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetadataValue'
      example:
        dc.title:
        - value: IRIS
          language: null
          authority: null
          confidence: -1
          place: 0
        dc.identifier.uri:
        - value: https://iris.unil.ch/handle/iris/1
          language: null
          authority: null
          confidence: -1
          place: 0
    MetadataValue:
      type: object
      properties:
        value:
          type: string
        language:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        authority:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        confidence:
          type: integer
        place:
          type: integer
    PageInfo:
      type: object
      description: Spring Data HAL pagination metadata.
      properties:
        size:
          type: integer
        totalElements:
          type: integer
        totalPages:
          type: integer
        number:
          type: integer