University of Waikato

Research Commons OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Research Commons, the university's open-access institutional repository, on the institution's own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName "Research Commons", repositoryIdentifier researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz, sampleIdentifier oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz:10289/1234 (Handle prefix 10289), deletedRecord transient and earliestDatestamp 1972-12-31. verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises didl, dim, etdms, marc, mets, mods, oai_dc, ore, qdc, rdf, uketd_dc and xoai. The adminEmail is data@prosentient.com.au — the DSpace deployment is managed for the university by Prosentient Systems. The host, the Handle namespace and the content are the institution's; the OAI-PMH protocol is OpenArchives' and no contract is claimed for it.

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Documentation
https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify

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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-waikato/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-waikato/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-waikato-protocol-endpoints-example.json

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-oai
name: Research Commons OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Research Commons, the university''s open-access
  institutional repository, on the institution''s own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns
  protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName "Research Commons", repositoryIdentifier researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz,
  sampleIdentifier oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz:10289/1234 (Handle prefix 10289), deletedRecord transient
  and earliestDatestamp 1972-12-31. verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises didl, dim, etdms, marc, mets,
  mods, oai_dc, ore, qdc, rdf, uketd_dc and xoai. The adminEmail is data@prosentient.com.au — the DSpace
  deployment is managed for the university by Prosentient Systems. The host, the Handle namespace and
  the content are the institution''s; the OAI-PMH protocol is OpenArchives'' and no contract is claimed
  for it.'
humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- Repository
- Open Access
- DSpace
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-waikato-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-waikato-protocol-endpoints-example.json