University of New South Wales Oai Pmh API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: UNSWorks Repository Interface Oai Pmh API
  version: '2.0'
  summary: Institution-operated OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for UNSWorks.
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the UNSW open-access institutional repository, served

    from UNSW''s own host. The Identify response names the repository "UNSWorks Repository",

    declares repositoryIdentifier unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au, an earliestDatestamp of

    2007-11-06 and an admin contact of lib.repository.alerts@unsw.edu.au.


    OPERATOR: institution. OAI-PMH is one of the few machine-readable surfaces a university

    genuinely operates itself even when the repository software came from somewhere else — the

    protocol, the base URL, the sets and the records are all under UNSW''s control.


    This is also the institution''s strongest `education`-regime domain-standard conformance:

    OAI-PMH 2.0, live, on their own host, exposing twelve metadata formats.


    PROVENANCE: UNSW publishes no OpenAPI for this surface. Every verb, parameter and error code

    below was exercised live on 2026-08-19; none is copied from the OAI-PMH specification without

    being confirmed against this endpoint.

    '
  contact:
    name: UNSW Library — UNSWorks Repository
    email: lib.repository.alerts@unsw.edu.au
    url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: baseURL declared inside the endpoint's own Identify response is https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request, under the institution's registrable domain, with a unsw.edu.au adminEmail and the UNSW handle prefix 1959.4 in its sample identifier.
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-19'
    method: probed
    source:
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=Identify
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=ListSets
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au:1959.4/60912
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=Bogus
    - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request?verb=GetRecord
servers:
- url: https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai
  description: UNSWorks OAI-PMH base (institution-operated).
tags:
- name: oai-pmh
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs, all exercised live against this endpoint.
paths:
  /request:
    get:
      tags:
      - oai-pmh
      operationId: oaiRequest
      summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 request
      description: "Single verb-dispatched endpoint. All six OAI-PMH verbs were confirmed to return HTTP 200\nwith a well-formed OAI-PMH envelope on 2026-08-19:\n\n- `Identify` — repositoryName \"UNSWorks Repository\", protocolVersion 2.0,\n  granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord transient.\n- `ListMetadataFormats` — twelve prefixes: uketd_dc, qdc, didl, mods, ore, mets, oai_dc,\n  rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms.\n- `ListSets` — community and collection sets under the UNSW handle prefix\n  (com_1959.4_*, col_1959.4_*).\n- `ListIdentifiers`, `ListRecords`, `GetRecord` — confirmed with metadataPrefix=oai_dc;\n  a real identifier returned by this endpoint is\n  oai:unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au:1959.4/60912.\n\nErrors are returned in-band as an `<error code=\"...\">` element with HTTP 200, per the\nOAI-PMH specification; the two confirmed codes are documented under responses.\n"
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: OAI-PMH verb.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 'Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord. Confirmed supported values on this endpoint: uketd_dc, qdc, didl, mods, ore, mets, oai_dc, rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms.'
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - uketd_dc
          - qdc
          - didl
          - mods
          - ore
          - mets
          - oai_dc
          - rdf
          - marc
          - xoai
          - dim
          - etdms
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier, required for GetRecord.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: oai:unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au:1959.4/60912
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set spec, e.g. com_1959.4_3 or col_1959.4_14.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower datestamp bound. Earliest datestamp in this repository is 2007-11-06T00:00:00Z.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper datestamp bound.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token for continuing a list request.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'OAI-PMH envelope. Per the protocol this status is also used for protocol-level errors, which appear as an <error code="..."> element. Confirmed codes on this endpoint: badVerb ("Illegal verb") and badArgument ("GetRecord verb requires the use of the parameters - identifier and metadataPrefix").'
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OaiPmhEnvelope'
components:
  schemas:
    Identify:
      type: object
      description: Captured live from this endpoint on 2026-08-19.
      properties:
        repositoryName:
          type: string
          examples:
          - UNSWorks Repository
        baseURL:
          type: string
          format: uri
          examples:
          - https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/oai/request
        protocolVersion:
          type: string
          const: '2.0'
        adminEmail:
          type: string
          format: email
          examples:
          - lib.repository.alerts@unsw.edu.au
        earliestDatestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          examples:
          - '2007-11-06T00:00:00Z'
        deletedRecord:
          type: string
          examples:
          - transient
        granularity:
          type: string
          examples:
          - YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
        repositoryIdentifier:
          type: string
          examples:
          - unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au
      required:
      - repositoryName
      - baseURL
      - protocolVersion
      - adminEmail
      - earliestDatestamp
    OaiPmhEnvelope:
      type: object
      description: XML document rooted at OAI-PMH in namespace http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/. Modelled structurally here because OpenAPI has no native XSD reference; the authoritative schema is http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd, which this endpoint declares in its own xsi:schemaLocation.
      properties:
        responseDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        request:
          type: string
          format: uri
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              enum:
              - badVerb
              - badArgument
              - badResumptionToken
              - cannotDisseminateFormat
              - idDoesNotExist
              - noRecordsMatch
              - noMetadataFormats
              - noSetHierarchy
            message:
              type: string
        Identify:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Identify'