University of Sheffield

ORDA — Online Research Data (figshare tenant)

ORDA is the University of Sheffield's research data repository at orda.shef.ac.uk. The records, the DOIs and the curation are Sheffield's; the platform and the API contract are figshare's. Sheffield is a registered DataCite provider (id ooki) and ORDA is a registered DataCite repository client (id bl.shef), so deposits mint DataCite DOIs. NO SPEC IS SAVED HERE ON PURPOSE — the figshare contract belongs in figshare's own repository, and attributing it to Sheffield is the specific defect this profile was re-run to correct. The relationship is real and is recorded; the engineering is not Sheffield's. ORDA's OAI-PMH endpoint is live but returns a Cloudflare 202 challenge to scripted clients.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/rdm/orda

Other Resources

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Portal
https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
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VendorProfile
https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.shef
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sheffield/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-sheffield:orda
name: ORDA — Online Research Data (figshare tenant)
x-operator: tenant
description: ORDA is the University of Sheffield's research data repository at orda.shef.ac.uk. The records,
  the DOIs and the curation are Sheffield's; the platform and the API contract are figshare's. Sheffield
  is a registered DataCite provider (id ooki) and ORDA is a registered DataCite repository client (id
  bl.shef), so deposits mint DataCite DOIs. NO SPEC IS SAVED HERE ON PURPOSE — the figshare contract belongs
  in figshare's own repository, and attributing it to Sheffield is the specific defect this profile was
  re-run to correct. The relationship is real and is recorded; the engineering is not Sheffield's. ORDA's
  OAI-PMH endpoint is live but returns a Cloudflare 202 challenge to scripted clients.
humanURL: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/oai
tags:
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- DataCite
- Figshare
tags_raw:
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- DataCite
- figshare
properties:
- type: Portal
  url: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/rdm/orda
- type: VendorProfile
  url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.shef
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml