# ORDA — Online Research Data (figshare tenant)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/orda/  
**Provider:** University of Sheffield — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sheffield/  
**Base URL:** https://orda.shef.ac.uk/oai  
**Documentation:** https://orda.shef.ac.uk/

ORDA — Online Research Data (figshare tenant) is one of 5 APIs that [University of Sheffield](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sheffield/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Research Data, OAI-PMH, DataCite, and Figshare. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

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

## Other University of Sheffield APIs (4)

- [Sheffield Solar API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/sheffield-solar-api/)
- [University of Sheffield Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/shibboleth-idp/)
- [White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/wrro-oai/)
- [White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/wreo-oai/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Research Data, OAI-PMH, DataCite, Figshare

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/orda/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sheffield/.