Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace)
The university's institutional repository, ir.wgtn.ac.nz, running DSpace 7.6.7 on the institution's OWN infrastructure: the host sits under its own registrable domain, carries no CNAME to any vendor, and resolves directly to 130.195.21.54 inside the university's address space, with library-systems@vuw.ac.nz as both the OAI-PMH adminEmail and the OpenSearch contact. This is the surface class the university pipeline exists to find and it was missed by the previous profile of this institution. It is anonymously callable and keyless across four machine-readable interfaces, all verified live on 2026-08-30: an OAI-PMH 2.0 base URL at /oai/request carrying 23,150 records in twelve metadata formats across sets that include ResearchArchive—Te Puna Rangahau, RestrictedArchive—Te Puna Rangahau, the Stout Literary Archive and Exam Papers; a DSpace REST (HAL+JSON) root at /server/api whose communities, collections (18) and discovery-search endpoints answer anonymously while /server/api/core/items returns HTTP 401; an OpenSearch 1.1 description with an Atom result feed; and FAIR Signposting link sets exposing DataCite metadata, Handle cite-as and license relations per item. Operator is `institution` rather than `tenant` because the university runs the deployment itself rather than buying it as a hosted service — but DSpace's interfaces are open-source and identical across every DSpace 7 installation, so the saved contract describes ONLY the endpoints probed on this host and credits the university with operating them, never with designing them.
Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace) is one of 10 APIs that Victoria University of Wellington publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Research Repository, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, and OpenSearch. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 10 operations across 10 paths, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2026-08-30.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace) declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (dspaceBearerToken).
dspaceBearerToken— DSpace short-lived JWT, obtained through /server/api/authn/login with an EPerson account in this repository. Accounts are issued by Victoria University of Well…
Paths & Operations 10
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 10 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Anonymous read and harvesting surfaces of the institution's own repository.
Schemas 6
The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are OaiIdentify (8 properties), RestRoot (6 properties), RestError (5 properties), OaiPmhResponse (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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