University of Minnesota

UMN Digital Conservancy — OAI-PMH and DSpace REST

The University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, which also holds DRUM (Data Repository for the University of Minnesota), runs DSpace 10.0 on University infrastructure. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint answers anonymously under the University's own repositoryIdentifier (conservancy.umn.edu) with a umn.edu admin contact, and its DSpace REST root is publicly readable for communities and collections while item endpoints require authentication. The deployment is the institution's; the REST contract is DSpace's product contract, so none is saved here.

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Documentation

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APIReference
https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
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Documentation
https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api

Other Resources

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-minnesota/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-minnesota-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-minnesota:digital-conservancy-oai-pmh
name: UMN Digital Conservancy — OAI-PMH and DSpace REST
x-operator: institution
description: The University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, which also holds DRUM (Data Repository for
  the University of Minnesota), runs DSpace 10.0 on University infrastructure. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint
  answers anonymously under the University's own repositoryIdentifier (conservancy.umn.edu) with a umn.edu
  admin contact, and its DSpace REST root is publicly readable for communities and collections while item
  endpoints require authentication. The deployment is the institution's; the REST contract is DSpace's
  product contract, so none is saved here.
humanURL: https://conservancy.umn.edu
baseURL: https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/oai/request
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Research Data
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
  url: https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-minnesota-conformance.yml