# Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/institutional-repository/  
**Provider:** Victoria University of Wellington — https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/  
**Base URL:** https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/  
**Documentation:** https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/

Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace) is one of 10 APIs that [Victoria University of Wellington](https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, and OpenSearch. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

The university's institutional repository, ir.wgtn.ac.nz, running DSpace 7.6.7 on the institution's OWN infrastructure: the host sits under its own registrable domain, carries no CNAME to any vendor, and resolves directly to 130.195.21.54 inside the university's address space, with library-systems@vuw.ac.nz as both the OAI-PMH adminEmail and the OpenSearch contact. This is the surface class the university pipeline exists to find and it was missed by the previous profile of this institution. It is anonymously callable and keyless across four machine-readable interfaces, all verified live on 2026-08-30: an OAI-PMH 2.0 base URL at /oai/request carrying 23,150 records in twelve metadata formats across sets that include ResearchArchive—Te Puna Rangahau, RestrictedArchive—Te Puna Rangahau, the Stout Literary Archive and Exam Papers; a DSpace REST (HAL+JSON) root at /server/api whose communities, collections (18) and discovery-search endpoints answer anonymously while /server/api/core/items returns HTTP 401; an OpenSearch 1.1 description with an Atom result feed; and FAIR Signposting link sets exposing DataCite metadata, Handle cite-as and license relations per item. Operator is `institution` rather than `tenant` because the university runs the deployment itself rather than buying it as a hosted service — but DSpace's interfaces are open-source and identical across every DSpace 7 installation, so the saved contract describes ONLY the endpoints probed on this host and credits the university with operating them, never with designing them.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/openapi/victoria-university-of-wellington-institutional-repository-openapi.yml
- **x-openapi-original** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/openapi/_original/victoria-university-of-wellington-institutional-repository.yaml
- **x-example** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/examples/victoria-university-of-wellington-ir-oai-identify.xml
- **x-example** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/examples/victoria-university-of-wellington-ir-dspace-root.json
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/conformance/victoria-university-of-wellington-conformance.yml
- **x-oai-pmh** — https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/oai/request?verb=Identify
- **x-opensearch** — https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/opensearch/service
- **Website** — https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/

## Other Victoria University of Wellington APIs (9)

- [Website Global Object](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/website-global-object/)
- [Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/identity-federation/)
- [Open Access Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/open-access-repository-figshare/)
- [Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/te-waharoa-discovery/)
- [Nuku Learning Management (Instructure Canvas tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/nuku-canvas-lms/)
- [Research Information System (Symplectic Elements tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/symplectic-elements/)
- [Enterprise Single Sign-On (WSO2 Identity Server)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/enterprise-sso-wso2/)
- [Student Records (Ellucian Banner Self-Service tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/student-records-banner/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID Tenant (production browser sign-on)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/entra-id-federation/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, OpenSearch, Signposting, Self-Hosted, Institution-Operated

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