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DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Endpoint

OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the DI-fusion repository. Answers verb=Identify and verb=ListMetadataFormats with valid protocol documents (advertising oai_dc only), but under HTTP 500 and with an HTML page appended after the closing tag. Every record-bearing verb rejects the advertised metadataPrefix=oai_dc with badArgument "Missing Metadata Prefix", so no metadata can be harvested despite DI-fusion being registered as OAI-PMH compliant in OpenDOAR, ROAR and Sherpa. Recorded as measured, not as advertised.

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DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Endpoint is one of 4 APIs that Université libre de Bruxelles publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Research, Open Access, OAI-PMH, and Metadata Harvesting. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://difusion.ulb.ac.be/vufind.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://difusion.ulb.ac.be/vufind/OAI/Server
Contact
DI-fusion, Bibliothèques de l'ULB
Terms of Service
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Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

OAI-PMH 1

The six OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol verbs.

GET
/OAI/Server
Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request
oaiPmhRequest 7 params → 200500

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Identify (7 properties), OaiPmhResponse (5 properties), OaiError (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

OaiPmhResponse
object
Root of an OAI-PMH 2.0 response, namespace http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/.
5 properties
Identify
object
7 properties
OaiError
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

ulb-difusion-oai-pmh-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
ulb:difusion-oai-pmh
Base URL
https://difusion.ulb.ac.be/vufind/OAI/Server
Docs
https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion/terms-of-use
Provider
Université libre de Bruxelles
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