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WIReDSpace DSpace REST Items API

Individual repository records — theses, dissertations, research articles and reports — each with Dublin Core metadata, bitstreams and a Handle under the 10539 prefix.

WIReDSpace DSpace REST Items API is one of 7 APIs that University of the Witwatersrand publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Item. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 9.2.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
9.2
Base URL
https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api
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.

Items 1

Repository items (records)

GET
/core/items/{uuid}
Get an item by UUID
getItem 1 param → 200401404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DSpaceObject (7 properties), MetadataValue (5 properties), Link (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DSpaceObject
object
7 properties
Link
object
1 property
MetadataValue
object
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

university-of-the-witwatersrand-items-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs University of the Witwatersrand publishes across the network.

WIReDSpace DSpace REST Root API
WIReDSpace DSpace REST Communities API
WIReDSpace DSpace REST Collections API
WIReDSpace DSpace REST Discovery API
WIReDSpace OAI-PMH Interface
Wits Open Data Vault (Figshare tenant)
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