Trinity College Dublin

aid: trinity-college-dublin
name: Trinity College Dublin
description: 'Trinity College Dublin (the University of Dublin) is Ireland''s oldest university, founded in 1592, and ranked
  #98 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is not organized around a dedicated developer
  portal or a documented open-API program; instead it is expressed through standards-based scholarly infrastructure. The Library
  of Trinity College Dublin runs TARA (Trinity''s Access to Research Archive), a DSpace institutional repository that exposes
  an OAI-PMH metadata interface, and Digital Collections, a Hyrax/Samvera platform that serves IIIF Presentation manifests
  for digitised manuscripts including the Book of Kells. Both are publicly reachable in a browser but currently sit behind
  bot-mitigation (Cloudflare / reCAPTCHA), so they are not openly machine-callable without interactive access. Federated identity
  is provided through HEAnet''s Edugate (eduGAIN) SAML federation rather than a public OAuth/OpenID developer API.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trinity-college-dublin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Ireland
- Library
- Repository
- Open Access
- IIIF
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: trinity-college-dublin:tara-oai
  name: TARA OAI-PMH (Trinity's Access to Research Archive)
  description: TARA is Trinity College Dublin's open-access institutional repository, built on DSpace. It exposes an OAI-PMH
    (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface for harvesting Dublin Core and other metadata about
    theses, articles, and other research outputs. The repository is harvested by national and European aggregators (e.g. RIAN,
    OpenAIRE). The endpoint is reachable interactively but is currently fronted by bot-mitigation that returns HTTP 403 to
    unattended programmatic clients.
  humanURL: https://www.tcd.ie/library/riss/tara/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - DSpace
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.tcd.ie/TARA
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.tara.tcd.ie/
- aid: trinity-college-dublin:digital-collections-iiif
  name: TCD Digital Collections (IIIF)
  description: Digital Collections is the Library of Trinity College Dublin's Hyrax/Samvera-based digital asset repository,
    providing access to digitised manuscripts and collections including the Book of Kells. The platform serves IIIF (International
    Image Interoperability Framework) Presentation manifests per work, enabling use in IIIF-compatible viewers. Manifests
    are reachable interactively in a browser but the site is fronted by reCAPTCHA bot-mitigation that blocks unattended automated
    requests.
  humanURL: https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Library
  - Digital Collections
  - Manuscripts
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.tcd.ie/library/dris/
  - type: Website
    url: https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/TCDLibrary/TCD-Hyrax-Web-App
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tcd.ie/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/TCDLibrary
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/trinity-college-dublin/
- type: Library
  url: https://www.tcd.ie/library/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/TCDLibrary/TCD-Hyrax-Web-App
- type: Authentication
  url: https://www.heanet.ie/services/identity-access/edugate
- type: Plans
  url: plans/trinity-college-dublin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/trinity-college-dublin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/trinity-college-dublin-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/trinity-college-dublin-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com