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Metadata Harvesting

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Providers using this tag (2)

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Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Macquarie UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationAustralia2 APIs33.5University of BristolUniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited Kingdom2 APIs27.2

APIs with this tag (36)

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Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
UWSpace OAI-PMH EndpointThe OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional reposito...56.7
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Apollo OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpointOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for Apollo, the University's institutional repository, served from Cambrid...43.9bonndata OAI-PMH Metadata EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for bonndata, the University of Bonn institutional research data r...41.4bonndoc Publication Server OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for bonndoc, "Der Publikationsserver der Universitaet Bonn" — the university's DSpace-...41.4
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
REDU OAI-PMH Metadata EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for REDU, on Unicamp's own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Id...37.1Knowledge@UChicago OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the University of Chicago institutional repository. ?verb=Identify retu...36.3Lancaster EPrints OAI-PMH 2.0 InterfaceThe one unambiguous, institution-operated public API Lancaster runs. A single HTTP endpoint that dispatches...35.8PMC OAI-PMH ServiceThe PMC OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) service allows bulk harvesting ...35.4FreiData OAI-PMHSecond OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, on the FreiData research-data host, serving marcxml, oai_dc, dcat, marc21, dat...32.7FreiDok plus OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for FreiDok plus, on the university's own host. Identify (probed 2...32.7DR-NTU (Digital Repository) — OAI-PMHA fully conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint over DR-NTU, serving 11 metadata formats and de...32.6Project MUSE OAI-PMH RepositoryProject MUSE, operated by Johns Hopkins University Press, exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint that a...32.0UMD Libraries Digital Collections OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over UMD Libraries' Fedora-backed digital collections. Identify reports rep...30.8PAPYRUS OAI-PMH Endpoint (institutional repository)OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for PAPYRUS, Université de Montréal's institutional repository of open-acc...29.5ULS E-Journal Publishing — OAI-PMH 2.0 providersThe University Library System publishes dozens of open-access journals on PKP Open Journal Systems that ULS...29.3Spiral OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting EndpointA fully functional OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface — the standards-based way Imperial's research outputs r...28.5OPEN FAU OAI-PMH Metadata ServiceOpen Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 service for OPEN FAU, the university's open-a...26.5
Emerging 19 Early or largely undocumented
King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMHThe standards-based harvesting interface for the King's Research Portal, the front end of Pure — how King's...26.0Vanderbilt Institutional Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the Vanderbilt Institutional Repository. Identify returns repositoryNam...25.7Keio University Metadata Harvesting APIOAI-PMH 2.0 verbs for discovering and harvesting KOARA's scholarly metadata.25.4Research Commons OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Research Commons, the university's open-access institutional ...24.4Scholarship@Western OAI-PMH 2.0 provider (tenant)OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for Western University's Open Repository. Identify returns repositoryName "...23.8Datahub Tec de Monterrey — OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the Tecnológico de Monterrey Dataverse OAI Archive, re-verified live on...23.0RITEC Institutional Repository — OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for RITEC, verified live on 2026-09-01. Identify returns repositoryName "Repositorio I...23.0edoc-Server OAI-PMH 2.0 InterfaceOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the edoc institutional repository, on HU's own host. ?verb=Ide...22.7ASU Library KEEP OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for KEEP, the ASU Library digital repository, running on Islandora that ASU Library bu...22.6ASU Library PRISM OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for PRISM, ASU Library's second Islandora digital-collections repository. repositoryNa...22.6ASU Research Data Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the ASU Library Research Data Repository. repositoryName "ASU ...22.6Adelaide Research & Scholarship OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "Adelaide Research & Scholarship" repository, on the same ...22.2ITB Journals OAI-PMHITB's scholarly journal platform at journals.itb.ac.id, hosted on ITB's own domain and administered by ITB ...21.4VU Research Portal OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Repository, served from the ...21.2Scholarly Commons @ CWRU — OAI-PMH 2.0 providerAn open OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata provider on CWRU's own host. Identify reports repositoryName "Scholarly Common...21.0UPF Digital Repository OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for e-Repositori, on UPF's own host. Probed 2026-09-01: verb=Ident...20.3NTNU Open Access Journals OAI-PMHNTNU runs its own Open Journal Systems installation, "NTNU Open Access Journals", on its own registrable do...20.1UNC Dataverse OAI-PMH ArchiveOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the UNC Dataverse research data repository, operated by the Odum Instit...19.3TU/e Research Portal OAI-PMHLive OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the TU/e Research Portal, served by Elsevier Pure at TU/e's own p...16.7

Companies reaching this through an API (31)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Metadata Harvesting” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Arizona State University Bandung Institute of Technology Case Western Reserve University Eindhoven University of Technology Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Imperial College London Johns Hopkins University Keio University King's College London Lancaster University Nanyang Technological University National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Norwegian University of Science and Technology Tecnológico de Monterrey Universitat Pompeu Fabra University of Adelaide University of Bonn University of Cambridge University of Campinas University of Chicago University of Freiburg University of Maryland College Park University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Pittsburgh University of Waikato University of Waterloo Université de Montréal Vanderbilt University Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Western University

Score breakdown

Frequency
41.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
48.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
17.7
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Dataverse 11 co-occurrences DataCite 17 co-occurrences Institutional Repository 15 co-occurrences OAI-PMH 33 co-occurrences Research Data 30 co-occurrences Research Information 9 co-occurrences Shibboleth 25 co-occurrences DSpace 14 co-occurrences

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