University of Basel

---
aid: university-of-basel
name: University of Basel
description: >-
  The University of Basel (Universität Basel) is the oldest university in
  Switzerland, founded in 1460, and is ranked #85 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated
  in scholarly and research infrastructure rather than a single central developer
  portal. The university operates "edoc", its open-access institutional repository
  running DSpace-CRIS 7.6.2, which exposes a public DSpace REST API and an
  OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata interface. The Swiss National Data and Service Center for
  the Humanities (DaSCH), hosted at the University of Basel, develops and operates
  the DSP-API, an open-source RDF-based humanities research data API. Library
  discovery is delivered through the SLSP swisscovery (Alma/Primo) platform, which
  offers a standards-based SRU search interface for the Basel institution zone.
  Source code is published across multiple verified GitHub organizations including
  IT Services (ITS-Unibas) and DaSCH (dasch-swiss).
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Switzerland
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Library
  - Digital Humanities
apis:
  - aid: university-of-basel:edoc-rest
    name: edoc DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      Public DSpace REST API for "edoc", the open-access institutional repository
      of the University of Basel, running DSpace-CRIS 7.6.2. The API root reports
      the repository name and server endpoints and exposes items, collections,
      communities, and metadata. Verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
    baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
    tags: [ Institutional Repository, Open Access, DSpace, Research Data, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  - aid: university-of-basel:edoc-oai
    name: edoc OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Basel edoc
      repository. The Identify verb reports repositoryName "edoc: Open Access
      Repository University of Basel" and adminEmail [email protected].
      Includes an OpenAIRE-CRIS metadata stream. Verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
    baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  - aid: university-of-basel:dsp-api
    name: DaSCH DSP-API
    description: >-
      The DaSCH Service Platform API (DSP-API, formerly Knora), an open-source
      HTTP API for long-term preservation, querying, annotation and linking of
      humanities research data as RDF graphs, with the Gravsearch search language.
      Developed and operated by the Swiss National Data and Service Center for
      the Humanities (DaSCH) at the University of Basel. Public documentation,
      open-source code on GitHub, and a live service endpoint (HTTP 405 on GET to
      the v2 ontologies path confirms the endpoint exists).
    humanURL: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
    baseURL: https://api.dasch.swiss
    tags: [ Research Data, Digital Humanities, RDF, Linked Data, Open Source ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/dasch-swiss/dsp-api
  - aid: university-of-basel:swisscovery-sru
    name: swisscovery (SLSP Alma) SRU
    description: >-
      Standards-based SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) interface to the SLSP
      swisscovery / Alma discovery system for the University of Basel institution
      zone (41SLSP_UBS). Allows programmatic search and retrieval of library
      catalogue records for the Basel library network. Verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/basel-library-network/
    baseURL: https://swisscovery.slsp.ch/view/sru/41SLSP_UBS
    tags: [ Library, Catalogue, SRU, Discovery, Alma ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/search-find/library-catalogues/swisscovery-registration-and-help/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.unibas.ch/en
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ITS-Unibas
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/dasch-swiss
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-basel/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-basel-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-basel-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-basel-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]