Minerva Access OAI-PMH 2.0 Endpoint

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: University of Melbourne — Minerva Access OAI-PMH 2.0 Interface
  version: '2.0'
  description: >-
    OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for Minerva Access, the University of
    Melbourne Library Digital Repository. This is an institution-operated
    metadata surface: the endpoint lives on `minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au`,
    the Identify response names the repository
    `The University of Melbourne Library Digital Repository`, the repository
    identifier is `jupiter.its.unimelb.edu.au` and the admin contact is
    `repository-admin@unimelb.edu.au`.

    It is also the strongest single piece of evidence that the University does
    its own engineering on top of DSpace rather than merely running it: of the
    fourteen metadata formats advertised, two are institution-specific —
    `umbl` (namespace `http://www.dspace.org/xmlns/dspace/umbl`, University of
    Melbourne Library) and `trove` (namespace
    `http://trove.nla.gov.au/oai/uom`, a crosswalk built for harvesting into
    the National Library of Australia's Trove under a `uom` path). Neither
    ships with stock DSpace.

    DERIVED from live probes on 2026-08-19. The University publishes no
    OpenAPI for this endpoint; OAI-PMH is a query-parameter protocol and this
    document describes it as one operation with a `verb` parameter, which is
    how the protocol actually works.
  contact:
    name: Minerva Access repository administration
    email: repository-admin@unimelb.edu.au
    url: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
  x-operator: institution
  x-software: DSpace 7.6 OAI-PMH module
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-19'
    method: derived
    source: >-
      Live probes of
      https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/oai/request with
      verb=Identify, verb=ListMetadataFormats, verb=ListSets and verb=Bogus on
      2026-08-19; all returned HTTP 200 text/xml.
servers:
  - url: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/oai
tags:
  - name: OAI-PMH
    description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
paths:
  /request:
    get:
      tags: [OAI-PMH]
      summary: OAI-PMH request
      description: >-
        Single OAI-PMH entry point. The protocol dispatches on the `verb` query
        parameter. All responses are `text/xml` with HTTP 200 — including
        protocol errors, which are carried in an `<error code="...">` element
        inside the envelope rather than as an HTTP status. Verified on
        2026-08-19: `Identify` (1,381 bytes), `ListMetadataFormats` (3,492
        bytes, 14 formats), `ListSets` (9,608 bytes), and `verb=Bogus`
        returning HTTP 200 with `<error code="badVerb">Illegal verb</error>`.
      operationId: oaiRequest
      parameters:
        - name: verb
          in: query
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            enum:
              - Identify
              - ListMetadataFormats
              - ListSets
              - ListIdentifiers
              - ListRecords
              - GetRecord
        - name: metadataPrefix
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            One of the 14 prefixes advertised by ListMetadataFormats. See
            vocabulary/university-of-melbourne-oai-metadata-vocabulary.yml.
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [oai_dc, qdc, dim, mods, mets, didl, ore, rdf, marc, xoai, etdms, uketd_dc, umbl, trove]
        - name: identifier
          in: query
          required: false
          description: 'OAI identifier, e.g. oai:jupiter.its.unimelb.edu.au:11343/1234'
          schema: { type: string }
        - name: set
          in: query
          required: false
          schema: { type: string }
        - name: from
          in: query
          required: false
          schema: { type: string, format: date-time }
        - name: until
          in: query
          required: false
          schema: { type: string, format: date-time }
        - name: resumptionToken
          in: query
          required: false
          schema: { type: string }
      responses:
        '200':
          description: >-
            OAI-PMH envelope. Carries either the requested payload or an
            `<error>` element; the HTTP status is 200 either way.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: xml
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: verb=Identify (verified 2026-08-19)
                  externalValue: ../examples/university-of-melbourne-oai-pmh-identify-example.xml
                badVerb:
                  summary: verb=Bogus — HTTP 200 with a protocol-level error
                  value: '<OAI-PMH ...><error code="badVerb">Illegal verb</error></OAI-PMH>'
x-repository-identity:
  repositoryName: The University of Melbourne Library Digital Repository
  baseURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/oai/request
  protocolVersion: '2.0'
  adminEmail: repository-admin@unimelb.edu.au
  earliestDatestamp: '1995-11-30T13:00:00Z'
  deletedRecord: transient
  granularity: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
  repositoryIdentifier: jupiter.its.unimelb.edu.au
  sampleIdentifier: 'oai:jupiter.its.unimelb.edu.au:11343/1234'