University of the Witwatersrand

WIReDSpace OAI-PMH Interface

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for WIReDSpace. Single-endpoint, verb-driven, answering anonymously, advertising thirteen metadata prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, dim, mets, mods, ore, didl, rdf, marc, etdms, rioxx, uketd_dc, xoai) and community-scoped sets keyed to the 10539 Handle prefix. This is the most conformant standards surface Wits operates.

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GET /request OAI-PMH request endpoint #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: WIReDSpace OAI-PMH Interface Request API
  description: 'Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) version 2.0 interface for WIReDSpace, the University of the Witwatersrand institutional repository. The protocol is a single-endpoint, verb-driven HTTP API returning XML. Verified live: the Identify response names the repository "WIReDSpace", protocolVersion 2.0, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, and deletedRecord policy "transient". Responses are XML conforming to the OAI-PMH schema, not JSON; this specification documents the request surface only.'
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Wits Open Scholarship, Library
    email: openscholarship.library@wits.ac.za
    url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/
  license:
    name: OAI-PMH Protocol
    url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
servers:
- url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/oai
  description: WIReDSpace OAI-PMH production endpoint
tags:
- name: Request
paths:
  /request:
    get:
      summary: OAI-PMH request endpoint
      description: Single OAI-PMH entry point. The `verb` parameter selects the operation. Supported verbs are Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, and GetRecord. Selective harvesting parameters (from, until, set, metadataPrefix, identifier, resumptionToken) apply per verb as defined by the OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol.
      operationId: oaiRequest
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The OAI-PMH verb (operation) to perform.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a record (required for GetRecord; optional for ListMetadataFormats).
        schema:
          type: string
          example: oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/38213
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format prefix (e.g. oai_dc). Required for GetRecord, ListRecords, ListIdentifiers.
        schema:
          type: string
          example: oai_dc
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound for selective harvesting by datestamp (UTC).
        schema:
          type: string
          example: '2025-01-01T00:00:00Z'
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound for selective harvesting by datestamp (UTC).
        schema:
          type: string
          example: '2025-12-31T23:59:59Z'
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set spec for selective harvesting by set membership.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token returned in a previous incomplete list response.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An OAI-PMH 2.0 XML response document. The root element is OAI-PMH, containing responseDate, request, and either a verb-specific payload element or an error element.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                description: OAI-PMH XML response document.
      tags:
      - Request
externalDocs:
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 specification
  url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm