University of Zurich

ZORA DSpace REST API

ZORA runs DSpace 8.0 and exposes the standard DSpace REST API (application/hal+json) for programmatic discovery of communities, collections and items representing UZH research output. Community and collection reads are open — /server/api/core/communities and /server/api/core/collections return data with no credentials — while /server/api/core/items returns 401 without an authenticated session. The root document advertises around fifty HAL link relations including discover, browses, identifiers, entitytypes and contentreport.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-zurich:zora-rest
name: ZORA DSpace REST API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Host www.zora.uzh.ch is UZH's; the API root reports dspaceName "ZORA" and dspaceUI https://www.zora.uzh.ch.
  The HAL+JSON contract is DSpace 8.0's, shipped by the DSpace project and identical at every DSpace installation,
  so no generic DSpace specification is saved under this institution — the deployment is recorded, the
  product's contract is not.
description: ZORA runs DSpace 8.0 and exposes the standard DSpace REST API (application/hal+json) for
  programmatic discovery of communities, collections and items representing UZH research output. Community
  and collection reads are open — /server/api/core/communities and /server/api/core/collections return
  data with no credentials — while /server/api/core/items returns 401 without an authenticated session.
  The root document advertises around fifty HAL link relations including discover, browses, identifiers,
  entitytypes and contentreport.
humanURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
baseURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- DSpace
- REST
- HAL
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/