PKU Institutional Repository REST API
Unauthenticated read API over the university's scholarly record — communities that mirror the faculty structure (理学部, 人文学部, 专利 with 25,721 items), their collections, items, Dublin Core metadata, attached files, and Handle resolution under the repository's own prefix 20.500.11897. Ten paths verified live on 2026-08-19; /rest/items/{id} returns HTTP 500 while the same item resolves through /rest/handle.
PKU Institutional Repository REST API is one of 8 APIs that Peking University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Research Repository, Scholarly, REST, DSpace, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 10 operations across 10 paths, organized into 4 resource areas, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://ir.pku.edu.cn/rest.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 10
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 10 GET. They span 4 resource areas: Status, Communities, Collections, Items. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Service liveness and authentication state.
Top-level organisational units of the repository (schools, departments, patent and thesis collections).
Collections of items inside a community.
Individual repository records — articles, theses, patents — and their metadata and bitstreams.
Schemas 6
The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Community (15 properties), Collection (14 properties), Item (13 properties), Bitstream (8 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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