University of Liverpool

DataCat Research Data Catalogue OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for DataCat, the University of Liverpool research data catalogue (EPrints 3.4.4), exposing metadata for finalised research datasets. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns 200 with repositoryName "DataCat: The Research Data Catalogue", repositoryIdentifier datacat.liverpool.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp 2026-04-14T08:58:23Z and deletedRecord "persistent"; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, rdf and uketd_dc; verb=ListSets returns 61,189 bytes of set structure. Institution-hosted and institution-operated; the EPrints contract is not saved here.

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https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-liverpool:datacat-oai
name: DataCat Research Data Catalogue OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for DataCat, the University of Liverpool research
  data catalogue (EPrints 3.4.4), exposing metadata for finalised research datasets. Verified live 2026-09-01:
  verb=Identify returns 200 with repositoryName "DataCat: The Research Data Catalogue", repositoryIdentifier
  datacat.liverpool.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp 2026-04-14T08:58:23Z and deletedRecord "persistent"; verb=ListMetadataFormats
  returns didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, rdf and uketd_dc; verb=ListSets returns 61,189 bytes of set structure.
  Institution-hosted and institution-operated; the EPrints contract is not saved here.'
humanURL: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
baseURL: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Research Data
- Metadata
- EPrints
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
- type: Errors
  url: errors/university-of-liverpool-oai-error-codes.yml