University of Melbourne OAI PMH API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University of Melbourne — Minerva Access 2.0 Interface OAI PMH API
  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