Deep Blue Documents OAI-PMH Response

JSON Schema for the OAI-PMH 2.0 envelope returned by the University of Michigan Library's Deep Blue Documents repository, expressed as the JSON projection of the XML actually returned. Derived from verbatim live responses captured 2026-08-19; the wire format is text/xml.

UniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research UniversityUnited StatesMichiganBig TenAssociation of American UniversitiesResearch DataInstitutional RepositoryIdentity FederationOAI-PMHLibraryResearch Computing

Properties

Name Type Description
responseDate string
request object
error object
Identify object
ListMetadataFormats array
ListSets array
ListIdentifiers array
ListRecords array
GetRecord object
resumptionToken object
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JSON Schema

university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-oai-pmh-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-oai-pmh-schema.json",
  "title": "Deep Blue Documents OAI-PMH Response",
  "description": "JSON Schema for the OAI-PMH 2.0 envelope returned by the University of Michigan Library's Deep Blue Documents repository, expressed as the JSON projection of the XML actually returned. Derived from verbatim live responses captured 2026-08-19; the wire format is text/xml.",
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "openapi/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-deep-blue-documents-oai-pmh-openapi.yml, itself probed from https://backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu/server/oai/request",
    "operator": "institution",
    "note": "The University of Michigan does not publish a JSON Schema for this endpoint. This is API Evangelist's derivation from captured responses, not a University of Michigan artifact."
  },
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["responseDate", "request"],
  "properties": {
    "responseDate": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "examples": ["2026-08-19T21:28:21Z"] },
    "request": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["baseURL"],
      "properties": {
        "baseURL": { "type": "string", "format": "uri", "examples": ["https://backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu/server/oai/request"] },
        "verb": { "type": "string", "enum": ["Identify", "ListMetadataFormats", "ListSets", "ListIdentifiers", "ListRecords", "GetRecord"] },
        "identifier": { "type": "string" },
        "metadataPrefix": { "type": "string" },
        "set": { "type": "string" },
        "from": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
        "until": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
        "resumptionToken": { "type": "string" }
      }
    },
    "error": { "$ref": "#/$defs/error" },
    "Identify": { "$ref": "#/$defs/identify" },
    "ListMetadataFormats": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/metadataFormat" } },
    "ListSets": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/set" } },
    "ListIdentifiers": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/recordHeader" } },
    "ListRecords": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/record" } },
    "GetRecord": { "$ref": "#/$defs/record" },
    "resumptionToken": { "$ref": "#/$defs/resumptionToken" }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "identify": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["repositoryName", "baseURL", "protocolVersion", "adminEmail", "earliestDatestamp", "deletedRecord", "granularity"],
      "properties": {
        "repositoryName": { "type": "string", "const": "Deep Blue" },
        "baseURL": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "protocolVersion": { "type": "string", "const": "2.0" },
        "adminEmail": { "type": "string", "format": "email", "examples": ["deepblue@umich.edu"] },
        "earliestDatestamp": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "examples": ["2005-08-29T23:07:21Z"] },
        "deletedRecord": { "type": "string", "enum": ["no", "persistent", "transient"], "examples": ["transient"] },
        "granularity": { "type": "string", "examples": ["YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ"] },
        "oaiIdentifier": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "scheme": { "type": "string", "const": "oai" },
            "repositoryIdentifier": { "type": "string", "const": "deepblue.lib.umich.edu" },
            "delimiter": { "type": "string", "const": ":" },
            "sampleIdentifier": { "type": "string", "examples": ["oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/1234"] }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "metadataFormat": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["metadataPrefix", "schema", "metadataNamespace"],
      "properties": {
        "metadataPrefix": { "type": "string", "enum": ["oai_dc", "qdc", "mods", "mets", "marc", "rdf", "ore", "didl", "dim", "xoai", "etdms", "uketd_dc"] },
        "schema": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "metadataNamespace": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }
      }
    },
    "set": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["setSpec", "setName"],
      "properties": {
        "setSpec": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^(com|col)_2027\\.42_[0-9]+$", "examples": ["com_2027.42_65133"] },
        "setName": { "type": "string", "examples": ["Archival Collections -- Bentley Library"] }
      }
    },
    "recordHeader": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["identifier", "datestamp"],
      "properties": {
        "identifier": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^oai:deepblue\\.lib\\.umich\\.edu:2027\\.42/[0-9]+$", "examples": ["oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/61022"] },
        "datestamp": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "examples": ["2021-09-29T22:07:51Z"] },
        "setSpec": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "status": { "type": "string", "enum": ["deleted"] }
      }
    },
    "record": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["header"],
      "properties": {
        "header": { "$ref": "#/$defs/recordHeader" },
        "metadata": { "$ref": "#/$defs/oaiDublinCore" }
      }
    },
    "oaiDublinCore": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Payload observed for metadataPrefix=oai_dc. Every Dublin Core element is repeatable, so each is modelled as an array of strings.",
      "properties": {
        "title": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "creator": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "contributor": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "subject": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "description": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "publisher": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "date": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "type": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "format": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "identifier": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "language": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "relation": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "rights": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }
      }
    },
    "resumptionToken": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Continuation marker on incomplete lists. Observed on ListSets as value '////100' with completeListSize 726 and cursor 0.",
      "properties": {
        "value": { "type": "string", "examples": ["////100"] },
        "completeListSize": { "type": "integer", "examples": [726] },
        "cursor": { "type": "integer", "examples": [0] },
        "expirationDate": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" }
      }
    },
    "error": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["code"],
      "properties": {
        "code": { "type": "string", "enum": ["badVerb", "badArgument", "cannotDisseminateFormat", "idDoesNotExist", "badResumptionToken", "noRecordsMatch", "noMetadataFormats", "noSetHierarchy"] },
        "message": { "type": "string" }
      }
    }
  }
}

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