University of Waterloo

UWSpace DSpace REST API

The REST backend of UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional repository, running DSpace 8.4 on a University of Waterloo Libraries host. The root document at /server/api returns a HAL index of the full DSpace resource graph — communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery, submission and authn. Waterloo operates the deployment; the contract is DSpace's open-source API, shared by every DSpace installation, so no generic DSpace spec is saved under Waterloo's slug. The deployment is the institutional fact, and it is recorded here.

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Documentation

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APIReference
https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/api
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Documentation
https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract

Other Resources

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Website
https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-waterloo:uwspace-dspace-rest-api
name: UWSpace DSpace REST API
description: The REST backend of UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional repository, running
  DSpace 8.4 on a University of Waterloo Libraries host. The root document at /server/api returns a HAL
  index of the full DSpace resource graph — communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery, submission
  and authn. Waterloo operates the deployment; the contract is DSpace's open-source API, shared by every
  DSpace installation, so no generic DSpace spec is saved under Waterloo's slug. The deployment is the
  institutional fact, and it is recorded here.
humanURL: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/
baseURL: https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/api
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Host dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca is under the University of Waterloo registrable
  domain and is self-hosted by Waterloo Libraries; the root document names dspaceUI https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
  and dspaceName UWSpace. The software underneath is DSpace 8.4 — a shared open-source contract, which
  is why no spec is saved.
x-contract-owner: DSpace (LYRASIS) — open-source, shared by every DSpace deployment
tags:
- Research Repository
- Institutional Repository
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract