University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Repository API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Deep Blue Documents OAI-PMH Repository API
  version: '2.0'
  summary: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0) interface to Deep Blue, the University of Michigan Library's DSpace institutional repository.
  description: 'Deep Blue is the University of Michigan Library''s institutional repository of articles,

    dissertations, theses, archival finding aids and other scholarly works. Its DSpace backend

    exposes a standard OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface on a University of Michigan host.


    ## Operator


    `x-operator: institution`. The host

    `backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu` is under `umich.edu`, the University

    of Michigan''s own registrable domain, and the `Identify` response names

    `repositoryName: Deep Blue`, `repositoryIdentifier: deepblue.lib.umich.edu` and

    `adminEmail: deepblue@umich.edu`. The repository *software* is DSpace (open source,

    LYRASIS) — the deployment, the host, the content and the administrative contact are the

    University of Michigan Library''s.


    ## Provenance of this document


    **The University of Michigan does not publish an OpenAPI description of this endpoint.**

    This document was written by API Evangelist by probing the live endpoint on 2026-08-19.

    Every operation, parameter, error code and example in it corresponds to a request that was

    actually issued and a response that was actually returned — see `examples/` in this repo for

    the verbatim captures. Nothing here is inferred from the OAI-PMH specification alone.


    ## Response format


    All responses are `text/xml` OAI-PMH envelopes and all responses — including protocol

    errors — are returned with HTTP `200`. Errors are carried in an `<error code="...">`

    element inside the envelope, not in the status line. Harvesters must parse the body.


    ## Access


    Unauthenticated and open. No API key, no OAuth, no registration, no scope model. No

    published rate limit or terms-of-use document was found for this endpoint.

    '
  contact:
    name: Deep Blue
    email: deepblue@umich.edu
    url: https://www.lib.umich.edu/collections/deep-blue-repositories
  license:
    name: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
    url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
servers:
- url: https://backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu/server/oai
  description: Deep Blue Documents production OAI-PMH endpoint (University of Michigan Library)
security: []
tags:
- name: Repository
  description: Repository-level description and capability discovery.
paths:
  /request:
    get:
      tags:
      - Repository
      operationId: oaiRequest
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH request
      description: "Single OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint. The `verb` parameter selects the operation. All\nsix protocol verbs were probed live against this host on 2026-08-19 and all returned\nHTTP 200 with a well-formed OAI-PMH envelope.\n\nArgument rules observed on this deployment:\n\n- `Identify`, `ListMetadataFormats`, `ListSets` take no further required arguments.\n- `ListRecords` and `ListIdentifiers` require either `metadataPrefix` or `resumptionToken`,\n  and accept `set`, `from` and `until`.\n- `GetRecord` requires both `identifier` and `metadataPrefix`; omitting them returns\n  `badArgument`.\n- `granularity` is `YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ` and `deletedRecord` is `transient`\n  (from the live Identify response).\n"
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The OAI-PMH verb to execute.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
        examples:
          identify:
            value: Identify
          getRecord:
            value: GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format to disseminate. Required for GetRecord, and for ListRecords / ListIdentifiers when no resumptionToken is supplied. The twelve prefixes this deployment actually advertises are enumerated in the enum below, read from a live ListMetadataFormats response.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - qdc
          - mods
          - mets
          - marc
          - rdf
          - ore
          - didl
          - dim
          - xoai
          - etdms
          - uketd_dc
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 'OAI identifier of a single record. Scheme `oai`, repository identifier `deepblue.lib.umich.edu`, delimiter `:`. Sample identifier advertised by Identify: `oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/1234`. The local part is a Handle under the `2027.42` prefix.'
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^oai:deepblue\.lib\.umich\.edu:2027\.42/[0-9]+$
        example: oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/61022
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Restrict harvesting to one set. This deployment advertises 726 sets (completeListSize on ListSets), named `com_2027.42_<id>` for DSpace communities and `col_2027.42_<id>` for collections.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^(com|col)_2027\.42_[0-9]+$
        example: com_2027.42_65133
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound on record datestamp, inclusive. Granularity `YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ` per the live Identify response. Earliest datestamp in this repository is `2005-08-29T23:07:21Z`.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        example: '2026-01-01T00:00:00Z'
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound on record datestamp, inclusive.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Continuation token from a previous incomplete list. Observed form on this deployment is `<from>/<until>/<set>/<metadataPrefix>/<cursor>` — e.g. the ListSets response returned `////100` with `completeListSize="726" cursor="0"`. When resumptionToken is supplied no other argument may be.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: ////100
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A well-formed OAI-PMH 2.0 envelope. Protocol errors are ALSO returned with status 200, carried in an `<error code="...">` element — status code alone is not a success signal on this API.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIPMHEnvelope'
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Identify (verbatim live capture, 2026-08-19)
                  externalValue: ../examples/deep-blue-documents-oai-identify.xml
                listMetadataFormats:
                  summary: ListMetadataFormats — 12 formats (verbatim live capture)
                  externalValue: ../examples/deep-blue-documents-oai-listmetadataformats.xml
                getRecord:
                  summary: GetRecord oai_dc (verbatim live capture)
                  externalValue: ../examples/deep-blue-documents-oai-getrecord.xml
                errors:
                  summary: The four error codes actually reproduced against this host
                  externalValue: ../examples/deep-blue-documents-oai-errors.xml
components:
  schemas:
    MetadataFormat:
      type: object
      required:
      - metadataPrefix
      - schema
      - metadataNamespace
      properties:
        metadataPrefix:
          type: string
          example: oai_dc
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uri
          example: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd
        metadataNamespace:
          type: string
          format: uri
          example: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/
    OAIError:
      type: object
      description: Protocol error. Carried inside a 200 response. Only the four codes below were reproduced against this host; the OAI-PMH specification defines others.
      required:
      - code
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          enum:
          - badVerb
          - badArgument
          - cannotDisseminateFormat
          - idDoesNotExist
          - badResumptionToken
          - noRecordsMatch
          - noMetadataFormats
          - noSetHierarchy
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable text content of the error element.
    Record:
      type: object
      required:
      - header
      properties:
        header:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordHeader'
        metadata:
          type: object
          description: Metadata payload in the requested prefix. For `oai_dc` this is an `oai_dc:dc` element carrying repeatable Dublin Core elements (`dc:title`, `dc:creator`, `dc:subject`, `dc:date`, `dc:identifier`, `dc:type`, `dc:rights`, `dc:language`, `dc:description`).
    Identify:
      type: object
      description: Repository description. Values below are those returned live on 2026-08-19.
      required:
      - repositoryName
      - baseURL
      - protocolVersion
      - adminEmail
      - earliestDatestamp
      - deletedRecord
      - granularity
      properties:
        repositoryName:
          type: string
          example: Deep Blue
        baseURL:
          type: string
          format: uri
          example: https://backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu/server/oai/request
        protocolVersion:
          type: string
          const: '2.0'
        adminEmail:
          type: string
          format: email
          example: deepblue@umich.edu
        earliestDatestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2005-08-29T23:07:21Z'
        deletedRecord:
          type: string
          enum:
          - false
          - persistent
          - transient
          example: transient
        granularity:
          type: string
          example: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
        oaiIdentifier:
          type: object
          properties:
            scheme:
              type: string
              example: oai
            repositoryIdentifier:
              type: string
              example: deepblue.lib.umich.edu
            delimiter:
              type: string
              example: ':'
            sampleIdentifier:
              type: string
              example: oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/1234
    RecordHeader:
      type: object
      required:
      - identifier
      - datestamp
      properties:
        identifier:
          type: string
          example: oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/61022
        datestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2021-09-29T22:07:51Z'
        setSpec:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - deleted
          description: Present only on deleted records. This repository reports deletions as transient.
    OAIPMHEnvelope:
      type: object
      description: OAI-PMH 2.0 response envelope, namespace `http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/`. Exactly one of the verb payloads or `error` is present alongside `responseDate` and `request`.
      required:
      - responseDate
      - request
      properties:
        responseDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: UTC timestamp the response was generated.
        request:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Echo of the base URL, with the request arguments as XML attributes.
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIError'
        Identify:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Identify'
        ListMetadataFormats:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetadataFormat'
        ListSets:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Set'
        ListIdentifiers:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordHeader'
        ListRecords:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Record'
        GetRecord:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Record'
    Set:
      type: object
      required:
      - setSpec
      - setName
      properties:
        setSpec:
          type: string
          example: com_2027.42_65133
        setName:
          type: string
          example: Archival Collections -- Bentley Library
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Host backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu is under umich.edu. Identify returns repositoryName "Deep Blue", repositoryIdentifier "deepblue.lib.umich.edu", adminEmail "deepblue@umich.edu".
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-19'
  method: probed
  source: https://backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu/server/oai/request
  probed_at: '2026-08-19T21:28:21Z'
  probes:
  - ?verb=Identify -> 200 text/xml 1361 bytes
  - ?verb=ListMetadataFormats -> 200 text/xml 3119 bytes
  - ?verb=ListSets -> 200 text/xml 11487 bytes (completeListSize 726)
  - ?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc -> 200 text/xml 21481 bytes
  - ?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc -> 200 text/xml 499532 bytes
  - ?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/61022&metadataPrefix=oai_dc -> 200 text/xml 5703 bytes
  - ?verb=Nope -> 200 error code="badVerb"
  - ?verb=GetRecord -> 200 error code="badArgument"
  - ?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=bogus -> 200 error code="cannotDisseminateFormat"
  - ?verb=GetRecord&identifier=...2027.42/000000 -> 200 error code="idDoesNotExist"