Lancaster University · Example Payload

Lancaster Identify Example

UniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited KingdomN8 Research PartnershipResearch DataInstitutional RepositoryIdentity FederationLibraryOpen-Source

Lancaster Identify Example is an example object payload from Lancaster University, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "verb": "Identify",
    "url": "https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify"
  },
  "response": {
    "responseDate": "2026-06-04T03:06:07Z",
    "repositoryName": "Lancaster EPrints",
    "baseURL": "https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/cgi/oai2",
    "protocolVersion": "2.0",
    "adminEmail": "library.dit@lancaster.ac.uk",
    "earliestDatestamp": "2019-06-10T15:56:35Z",
    "deletedRecord": "persistent",
    "granularity": "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ",
    "repositoryIdentifier": "eprints.lancs.ac.uk",
    "sampleIdentifier": "oai:eprints.lancs.ac.uk:10175"
  }
}

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