# UMD Libraries Audio/Video Collections OAI-PMH and OpenSearch

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/av-collections-oai/  
**Provider:** University of Maryland College Park — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-maryland-college-park/  
**Base URL:** https://api.av.lib.umd.edu/oai/api  
**Documentation:** https://opendata.lib.umd.edu/services/digital-collections-av/

UMD Libraries Audio/Video Collections OAI-PMH and OpenSearch is one of 16 APIs that [University of Maryland College Park](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-maryland-college-park/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Digital Collections, Audio Video, OAI-PMH, OpenSearch, and Library. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

The Libraries' Avalon Media System deployment for audio and video collections, with an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (repositoryName "UMD Libraries", adminEmail lib-dpi@umd.edu), an OpenSearch 1.1 descriptor, and a JSON:API-shaped catalog endpoint returning paginated MediaObject records. All keyless.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://opendata.lib.umd.edu/services/digital-collections-av/
- **APIReference** — https://api.av.lib.umd.edu/oai/api?verb=Identify
- **OpenSearch** — https://av.lib.umd.edu/catalog/opensearch.xml
- **Website** — https://av.lib.umd.edu/catalog.json
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/umd-lib/avalon

## Other University of Maryland College Park APIs (12)

- [UMD Libraries Website Tools API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/libraries-website-tools/)
- [UMD Libraries Digital Collections OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/digital-collections-oai/)
- [UMD Archival Collections OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/archival-collections-oai/)
- [UMD Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/identity-federation/)
- [UMD Libraries IIIF Services](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/iiif-services/)
- [UMD Enterprise GIS — ArcGIS REST Services](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/enterprise-gis/)
- [DRUM — Digital Repository at the University of Maryland](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/drum/)
- [Testudo Schedule of Classes](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/testudo-soc/)
- [umd.io — student-run University of Maryland data API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/umd-io/)
- [UMD Discover — library discovery layer](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/umd-discover/)
- [UMD Web Archives on Archive-It](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/archive-it/)
- [UMD Collection on the Internet Archive](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/internet-archive/)

## Tags

Digital Collections, Audio Video, OAI-PMH, OpenSearch, Library

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