University of Basel

aid: university-of-basel
name: University of Basel
description: 'The University of Basel (Universität Basel) is the oldest university in Switzerland, founded in 1460, and is
  ranked #85 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in
  scholarly and research infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal. The university operates "edoc", its
  open-access institutional repository running DSpace-CRIS 7.6.2, which exposes a public DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0
  metadata interface. The Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH), hosted at the University of Basel,
  develops and operates the DSP-API, an open-source RDF-based humanities research data API. Library discovery is delivered
  through the SLSP swisscovery (Alma/Primo) platform, which offers a standards-based SRU search interface for the Basel institution
  zone. Source code is published across multiple verified GitHub organizations including IT Services (ITS-Unibas) and DaSCH
  (dasch-swiss).'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Switzerland
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Library
- Digital Humanities
apis:
- aid: university-of-basel:edoc-rest
  name: edoc DSpace REST API
  description: Public DSpace REST API for "edoc", the open-access institutional repository of the University of Basel, running
    DSpace-CRIS 7.6.2. The API root reports the repository name and server endpoints and exposes items, collections, communities,
    and metadata. Verified live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - Research Data
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
- aid: university-of-basel:edoc-oai
  name: edoc OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Basel edoc repository. The Identify verb reports
    repositoryName "edoc: Open Access Repository University of Basel" and adminEmail openaccess@unibas.ch. Includes an OpenAIRE-CRIS
    metadata stream. Verified live (HTTP 200).'
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
- aid: university-of-basel:dsp-api
  name: DaSCH DSP-API
  description: The DaSCH Service Platform API (DSP-API, formerly Knora), an open-source HTTP API for long-term preservation,
    querying, annotation and linking of humanities research data as RDF graphs, with the Gravsearch search language. Developed
    and operated by the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) at the University of Basel. Public
    documentation, open-source code on GitHub, and a live service endpoint (HTTP 405 on GET to the v2 ontologies path confirms
    the endpoint exists).
  humanURL: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
  baseURL: https://api.dasch.swiss
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Digital Humanities
  - RDF
  - Linked Data
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/dasch-swiss/dsp-api
- aid: university-of-basel:swisscovery-sru
  name: swisscovery (SLSP Alma) SRU
  description: Standards-based SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) interface to the SLSP swisscovery / Alma discovery system for
    the University of Basel institution zone (41SLSP_UBS). Allows programmatic search and retrieval of library catalogue records
    for the Basel library network. Verified live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/basel-library-network/
  baseURL: https://swisscovery.slsp.ch/view/sru/41SLSP_UBS
  tags:
  - Library
  - Catalogue
  - SRU
  - Discovery
  - Alma
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/search-find/library-catalogues/swisscovery-registration-and-help/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unibas.ch/en
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ITS-Unibas
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/dasch-swiss
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-basel/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-basel-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-basel-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-basel-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com