Western University

Scholarship@Western OAI-PMH 2.0 provider (tenant)

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for Western University's Open Repository. Identify returns repositoryName "Western University's Open Repository", repositoryIdentifier uwo.scholaris.ca, adminEmail rsclib@uwo.ca, earliestDatestamp 2025-05-27T13:31:41Z, deletedRecord transient, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. ListMetadataFormats returns thirteen prefixes — didl, mods, ore, mets, xoai, dim, rioxx, uketd_dc, qdc, oai_dc, rdf, marc, etdms — and ListSets returns DSpace community and collection sets under handle prefix 20.500.14721. This is the surface that satisfies the `oai-pmh` domain standard in the Kin Score education regime, and it was documented in this repository's README but never recorded as an API entry until now.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: western:scholaris-oai-pmh
name: Scholarship@Western OAI-PMH 2.0 provider (tenant)
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for Western University's Open Repository. Identify returns
  repositoryName "Western University's Open Repository", repositoryIdentifier uwo.scholaris.ca, adminEmail
  rsclib@uwo.ca, earliestDatestamp 2025-05-27T13:31:41Z, deletedRecord transient, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
  ListMetadataFormats returns thirteen prefixes — didl, mods, ore, mets, xoai, dim, rioxx, uketd_dc, qdc,
  oai_dc, rdf, marc, etdms — and ListSets returns DSpace community and collection sets under handle prefix
  20.500.14721. This is the surface that satisfies the `oai-pmh` domain standard in the Kin Score education
  regime, and it was documented in this repository's README but never recorded as an API entry until now.
humanURL: https://www.lib.uwo.ca/scholarship/scholarshipatwestern.html
baseURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- DSpace
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Same host and same operator as the DSpace REST API above — Western's repository running
  on Scholars Portal's national Scholaris service. The OAI implementation is DSpace's.
x-vendor: Scholars Portal (Ontario Council of University Libraries) — DSpace 8.4
properties:
- type: Examples
  url: examples/western-scholaris-oai-identify-example.xml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/western-conformance.yml