University of Ottawa

uO Research OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting provider for uO Research. Probed 2026-09-01: Identify returns repositoryName "Recherche uO Research", repositoryIdentifier ruor.uottawa.ca, adminEmail ruor@uottawa.ca, earliestDatestamp 2008-09-30T18:39:35Z, deletedRecord transient. Fourteen metadata prefixes are offered (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms, oai_etdms, rioxx, uketd_dc); ListSets exposes community-scoped sets on Handle prefix 10393, and a single oai_dc ListRecords page carries 91 DOIs under the institution's own DataCite prefix 10.20381.

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GET /request OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: uO Research OAI-PMH 2.0 Metadata Harvesting Endpoint
  version: '2.0'
  description: >-
    Description of the OAI-PMH 2.0 provider the University of Ottawa Library operates for
    uO Research (Recherche uO Research) at https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai/request.

    OPERATOR: University of Ottawa. An Identify request returns repositoryName
    "Recherche uO Research", repositoryIdentifier ruor.uottawa.ca, adminEmail ruor@uottawa.ca,
    earliestDatestamp 2008-09-30T18:39:35Z. OAI-PMH is an Open Archives Initiative protocol;
    the endpoint, the sets and the records are uOttawa's.

    PROVENANCE: uOttawa publishes no OpenAPI for this endpoint. API Evangelist wrote this
    document from live anonymous probes on 2026-09-01. Every verb below returned HTTP 200
    when called; the response bodies are XML in the OAI-PMH namespace, so responses are typed
    as application/xml rather than modelled field by field.
  contact:
    name: uO Research, University of Ottawa Library
    email: ruor@uottawa.ca
    url: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/
servers:
  - url: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai
    description: Production OAI-PMH provider, University of Ottawa Library
x-operator: institution
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  source: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  author: API Evangelist
paths:
  /request:
    get:
      operationId: oaiRequest
      summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint
      description: >-
        Single-endpoint protocol dispatched on the `verb` query parameter. Probed 2026-09-01:
        Identify 200 (1,282 bytes), ListMetadataFormats 200 (3,577 bytes, fourteen prefixes),
        ListSets 200 (13,002 bytes), ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc 200 (292,306 bytes,
        containing 91 DOIs under the institution's DataCite prefix 10.20381), and an invalid
        verb returns 200 with an OAI-PMH <error code="badVerb"> element rather than an HTTP
        error status - normal OAI-PMH behaviour.
      parameters:
        - name: verb
          in: query
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, ListRecords, ListIdentifiers, GetRecord]
        - name: metadataPrefix
          in: query
          description: >-
            Required for ListRecords, ListIdentifiers and GetRecord. Fourteen prefixes are
            supported by this repository.
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms, oai_etdms, rioxx, uketd_dc]
        - name: identifier
          in: query
          description: 'OAI identifier, e.g. oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/1234'
          schema: { type: string }
        - name: set
          in: query
          schema: { type: string }
        - name: from
          in: query
          schema: { type: string, format: date-time }
        - name: until
          in: query
          schema: { type: string, format: date-time }
        - name: resumptionToken
          in: query
          schema: { type: string }
      responses:
        '200':
          description: >-
            OAI-PMH response envelope. Protocol-level failures (badVerb, badArgument,
            cannotDisseminateFormat, idDoesNotExist, noRecordsMatch) are also returned with
            HTTP 200 and an <error> element inside the envelope.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                description: OAI-PMH 2.0 XML envelope
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Identify response captured 2026-09-01
                  externalValue: ../examples/university-of-ottawa-ruor-oai-identify-example.xml