OAI-PMH service

Created: 07-12-2022 - Last updated: 19-10-2022

About OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH stands for Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It is a protocol for collecting and synchronising the metadata of a repository to display it in another platform.

Reference: openarchives.org/pmh/

Service access

Type of request URL
Start page sonar.ch/oai2d?
List of metadata formats sonar.ch/oai2d?verb=ListMetadataFormats
List of sets sonar.ch/oai2d?verb=ListSets
List of records sonar.ch/oai2d?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

Metadata format

Currently, only the format oai_dc is implemented, according to the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories v3.

Specificity of this format: the field dc:identifier contains the record permalink and also, if applicable, the direct link to the file.

Example

<dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/304993</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/documents/304993/files/B._Leutenegger.pdf</dc:identifier>