University of Rochester

University of Rochester Oai Pmh API

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting verbs

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GET /oai2 OAI-PMH 2.0 request #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: UR Research Interface Oai Pmh API
  version: '2.0'
  x-generated: '2026-08-30'
  x-method: derived
  x-source: Derived from live probes of https://urresearch.rochester.edu/oai2 on 2026-08-30 (verbs Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, GetRecord, and a badVerb error case), read against OAI-PMH 2.0. Not published by the University of Rochester; API Evangelist authored this description of their live endpoint.
  x-operator: institution
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for UR Research, the University of Rochester's institutional repository.
  contact:
    name: UR Research Repository Administrator
    email: stephen.alexander@rochester.edu
    url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/
  license:
    name: Apache License 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu
  description: UR Research institutional repository (University of Rochester)
tags:
- name: oai pmh
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting verbs
paths:
  /oai2:
    get:
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      operationId: oaiPmhRequest
      summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 request
      description: Single OAI-PMH 2.0 entry point. The `verb` parameter selects the operation. Protocol-level failures are returned as HTTP 200 with an element in the OAI-PMH envelope, per the specification — status code alone does not indicate success.
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: OAI-PMH verb.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format. Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - dcterms
          - marc21
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a single record, e.g. oai:urresearch.rochester.edu:1. Required for GetRecord.
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - oai:urresearch.rochester.edu:1
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set spec to restrict a selective harvest, e.g. "43" or "38:185".
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound of the datestamp range, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound of the datestamp range, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token returned by an incomplete list response. Exclusive of all other arguments except verb.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH envelope. Carries either the verb's payload element or an <error> element; observed error codes include badVerb.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                description: OAI-PMH 2.0 XML envelope, http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd