generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live probes of actu.epfl.ch, memento.epfl.ch, infoscience.epfl.ch and getprime.epfl.ch on
  2026-08-19
docs: https://actu.epfl.ch/api-docs/
x-operator: institution
versioning:
  scheme: uri-path
  current: v1
  base:
  - https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1
  - https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1
  detail: >-
    Both public APIs pin a single major version in the path and have never advertised a
    second. No version header, no content negotiation by version, no version field in any
    response body. The Infoscience REST API is versioned by the DSpace-CRIS release EPFL runs
    rather than by EPFL; its OAI-PMH provider exposes exactly one context, openaire4, which is
    itself a version marker (OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories v4.0).
  stability_marking: >-
    None. Neither api-docs page marks any resource or field as beta, experimental or stable.
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  detail: >-
    EPFL publishes no deprecation policy for any of its APIs and advertises no RFC 8594 Sunset
    or Deprecation header. There is no changelog, no release notes page and no announcement
    channel tied to either API. A consumer would learn about a breaking change by breaking.
  observed_deprecations: []
change_signals:
- signal: cache-control
  detail: >-
    Responses carry cache-control: max-age=900, public and strict-transport-security:
    max-age=31536000. Served through Cloudflare (server: cloudflare). No rate-limit headers of
    any kind were returned.
  evidence: 'GET https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/news/?limit=1 -> 200'
- signal: OPTIONS metadata
  detail: >-
    OPTIONS returns the DRF metadata document, which will change shape if the underlying
    serializer changes. It is the only introspectable change surface either API has.
  evidence: 'OPTIONS https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/news/ -> 200'
- signal: repository datestamps
  detail: >-
    Infoscience's OAI-PMH provider supports incremental harvesting from
    earliestDatestamp 2004-08-31T00:00:00Z at second granularity, with deletedRecord policy
    "transient". That is a real, machine-readable change feed for EPFL research output — and
    the only one EPFL operates.
  evidence: 'https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/oai/openaire4?verb=Identify -> 200'
retirement_observed:
- surface: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/oai/request
  status: 404
  detail: >-
    The OAI-PMH base URL this repo carried since 2026-06-03 is dead. It now returns HTTP 404
    with a 486 KB Angular application shell rather than an OAI error document — a soft-404 that
    reads as alive to anything checking status codes alone. The live base URL is
    https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/oai/openaire4.
  corrected: '2026-08-19'