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Imperial College London

Spiral Open Access Repository (DSpace 7 REST API)

Imperial's institutional open-access repository, exposed over the DSpace 7 HAL+JSON REST API at https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api. The read-oriented subset is genuinely public: /core/communities, /core/collections and /discover/search/objects all answer 200 unauthenticated. /core/items as a collection answers 401 — item access is by UUID. Collapsed from three separate apis[] entries (core / discover / root) into one on 2026-08-19: those were an artifact of refine-openapis splitting one contract by tag, and carrying them as three surfaces tripled Imperial's apparent footprint for a single vendor-operated API.

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Spiral Open Access Repository (DSpace 7 REST API) is one of 5 APIs that Imperial College London publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Research Data, Institutional Repository, Open Access, and DSpace. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 6 operations across 6 paths, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 7.6.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api.

6 operations 6 paths 9 schemas 6 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
7.6.1
Base URL
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api
Contact
Imperial College London - Spiral
License
DSpace BSD License
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 6

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 6 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Core 6

Communities, collections, and items.

GET
/core/communities
List top-level and all communities
getCommunities 2 params → 200
GET
/core/communities/{uuid}
Get a single community by UUID
getCommunity 1 param → 200404
GET
/core/collections
List collections
getCollections 2 params → 200
GET
/core/collections/{uuid}
Get a single collection by UUID
getCollection 1 param → 200404
GET
/core/items/{uuid}
Get a single item by UUID
getItem 1 param → 200404
GET
/dso/find
Find a DSpaceObject by UUID
dsoFind 1 param → 200404

Schemas 9

The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DSpaceObject (7 properties), MetadataValue (5 properties), PageInfo (4 properties), HalPage (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DSpaceObject
object
7 properties
PageInfo
object
4 properties
MetadataMap
object
Map of Dublin Core / DSpace metadata field keys (e.g. dc.title, dc.contributor.author) to arrays of metadata values.
MetadataValue
object
A single metadata field value in DSpace's metadata model.
5 properties 1 required
Item
HalPage
object
3 properties
CommunityPage
Collection
Community

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

imperial-college-london-core-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
imperial-college-london:spiral-dspace-rest
Base URL
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api
Docs
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
Provider
Imperial College London
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