University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa Request API

The Request API from University of Ottawa — 1 operation(s) for request.

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Operations 1

GET /request OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
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.
  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
tags:
- name: Request
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 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
      tags:
      - Request
x-operator: institution
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  source: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  author: API Evangelist

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