University of Waterloo

UWSpace OAI-PMH Endpoint

The OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional repository. A verb=Identify request returns protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName UWSpace, an adminEmail of uwspace-admin@uwaterloo.ca and an earliest datestamp of 2006-07-28, confirming Waterloo has been exposing harvestable repository metadata for close to twenty years. This is an institution-operated surface and a direct hit against the education regime standard oai-pmh.

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Documentation

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APIReference
https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
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Documentation
https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Other Resources

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-waterloo/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-waterloo-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-waterloo:uwspace-oai-pmh
name: UWSpace OAI-PMH Endpoint
description: The OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional
  repository. A verb=Identify request returns protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName UWSpace, an adminEmail
  of uwspace-admin@uwaterloo.ca and an earliest datestamp of 2006-07-28, confirming Waterloo has been
  exposing harvestable repository metadata for close to twenty years. This is an institution-operated
  surface and a direct hit against the education regime standard oai-pmh.
humanURL: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/
baseURL: https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/oai/request
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Confirmed with a live ?verb=Identify response on 2026-09-01 (HTTP 200, text/xml) naming
  UWSpace and a uwaterloo.ca admin address, on a University of Waterloo Libraries host.
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- Research Repository
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-waterloo-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html