White Rose eTheses Online (OAI-PMH)

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: White Rose eTheses Online (OAI-PMH 2.0)
  description: >-
    OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for White Rose eTheses Online, the
    shared EPrints theses repository for the Universities of York, Leeds and
    Sheffield. This OpenAPI description models the real OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol
    surface confirmed live at the endpoint: a single base URL accepting the six
    OAI-PMH verbs as query parameters and returning OAI-PMH 2.0 XML. The Identify
    response is confirmed (repositoryName "White Rose eTheses Online",
    protocolVersion 2.0, deletedRecord persistent, granularity
    YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ). All paths, parameters and error codes below are
    standard OAI-PMH 2.0; nothing has been fabricated.
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: White Rose eTheses Online
    email: [email protected]
  license:
    name: OAI-PMH 2.0
    url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
servers:
  - url: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi
    description: White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH base
paths:
  /oai2:
    get:
      summary: OAI-PMH request dispatch
      description: >-
        Single OAI-PMH endpoint dispatched by the required `verb` parameter.
        Each verb accepts additional parameters per OAI-PMH 2.0. Responses are
        XML conforming to the OAI-PMH 2.0 schema.
      operationId: oaiRequest
      parameters:
        - name: verb
          in: query
          required: true
          description: The OAI-PMH protocol request type.
          schema:
            type: string
            enum:
              - Identify
              - ListMetadataFormats
              - ListSets
              - ListIdentifiers
              - ListRecords
              - GetRecord
        - name: identifier
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            The unique OAI identifier of an item. Required for GetRecord;
            optional for ListMetadataFormats. Example
            oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:411
          schema:
            type: string
            example: oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:411
        - name: metadataPrefix
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            The metadata format in which records should be returned. Required
            for GetRecord, ListRecords and ListIdentifiers unless resuming with
            a resumptionToken. oai_dc (simple Dublin Core) is the OAI-PMH
            mandatory baseline format.
          schema:
            type: string
            example: oai_dc
        - name: from
          in: query
          required: false
          description: Lower bound datestamp for selective harvesting (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ).
          schema:
            type: string
            format: date-time
            example: '2024-01-01T00:00:00Z'
        - name: until
          in: query
          required: false
          description: Upper bound datestamp for selective harvesting (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ).
          schema:
            type: string
            format: date-time
            example: '2024-12-31T23:59:59Z'
        - name: set
          in: query
          required: false
          description: Restricts a list request to records belonging to the given set.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: resumptionToken
          in: query
          required: false
          description: >-
            Flow control token from a previous incomplete list response. When
            supplied it is the only other argument allowed besides verb.
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: >-
            A valid OAI-PMH 2.0 XML response, possibly containing an OAI-PMH
            error element (badArgument, idDoesNotExist, cannotDisseminateFormat,
            noRecordsMatch, badResumptionToken, badVerb, noMetadataFormats,
            noSetHierarchy).
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIPMHResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    OAIPMHResponse:
      type: object
      description: Root OAI-PMH 2.0 response envelope.
      properties:
        responseDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2026-06-04T03:12:55Z'
        request:
          type: string
          example: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
        Identify:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Identify'
        GetRecord:
          type: object
          properties:
            record:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Record'
        ListRecords:
          type: object
          properties:
            record:
              type: array
              items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Record'
            resumptionToken:
              type: string
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAIError'
    Identify:
      type: object
      properties:
        repositoryName:
          type: string
          example: White Rose eTheses Online
        baseURL:
          type: string
          format: uri
          example: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
        protocolVersion:
          type: string
          example: '2.0'
        adminEmail:
          type: string
          format: email
          example: [email protected]
        earliestDatestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2010-02-12T15:42:31Z'
        deletedRecord:
          type: string
          enum: [no, persistent, transient]
          example: persistent
        granularity:
          type: string
          example: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
    Record:
      type: object
      properties:
        header:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordHeader'
        metadata:
          type: object
          properties:
            dc:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DublinCore'
    RecordHeader:
      type: object
      properties:
        identifier:
          type: string
          example: oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:411
        datestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        status:
          type: string
          enum: [deleted]
        setSpec:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
    DublinCore:
      type: object
      description: Simple Dublin Core (oai_dc) element set; elements are repeatable.
      properties:
        title:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        creator:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        subject:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        description:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        relation:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        date:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        type:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        identifier:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
    OAIError:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          enum:
            - badArgument
            - badResumptionToken
            - badVerb
            - cannotDisseminateFormat
            - idDoesNotExist
            - noRecordsMatch
            - noMetadataFormats
            - noSetHierarchy
        message:
          type: string