# Rice Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/rice/kinder-udp/  
**Provider:** Rice University — https://apis.io/providers/rice/  
**Base URL:** https://lg4tooqkr1.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod  
**Documentation:** https://kinder.rice.edu/initiative/urban-data-platform

Rice Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform API is one of 8 APIs that [Rice University](https://apis.io/providers/rice/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Open Data, Urban Research, Research Data, Datasets, and Geospatial. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, authentication docs, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.

The only publicly callable API Rice University itself operates. Serves the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Urban Data Platform: a 431-dataset catalog of Houston and Harris County urban data across fourteen subject categories, with 27 controlled vocabularies, DataCite DOIs under Rice's own 10.25612 prefix, and typed inter-dataset relations drawn from the DataCite RelationType vocabulary. Reads are anonymous and CORS-open; a member-scoped catalog sits behind an undocumented authorizer. Rice publishes no documentation, no OpenAPI and no developer portal for it — the description in this repository was written from live probes on 2026-09-01 and is marked `method: probed`. Operator is institution despite the AWS hostname: the API's own suggestedCitation field names "Rice University-Kinder Institute: UDP", kinder.rice.edu endorses and links the platform, and its DOIs resolve to DataCite client RICE.KINDER under member `rice`.

## Operations (5)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/datasets` | List every publicly visible dataset in the catalog. |
| GET | `/datasets/{datasetId}` | Retrieve the full catalog record for one dataset. |
| GET | `/datasets/{datasetId}/vrde` | Retrieve the dataset record with its Virtual Research Data Environment location. |
| GET | `/lookups` | Retrieve every controlled vocabulary the catalog uses. |
| GET | `/user/catalog` | The signed-in member's view of the catalog. |

## Machine-readable artifacts (11)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/openapi/rice-kinder-udp-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rice-kinder-udp-dataset-schema.json
- **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/rice-kinder-udp-vocabulary.yml
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/examples/rice-kinder-udp-datasets-example.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/examples/rice-kinder-udp-dataset-detail-example.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/examples/rice-kinder-udp-lookups-example.json
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/errors/rice-errors.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/authentication/rice-authentication.yml
- **Website** — https://www.kinderudp.org/
- **Documentation** — https://kinder.rice.edu/initiative/urban-data-platform
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Rice University APIs (7)

- [Rice Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/rice/sso-shibboleth/)
- [InCommon Federation registration](https://apis.io/apis/rice/incommon-federation/)
- [DataCite membership — Fondren Library, Rice University](https://apis.io/apis/rice/datacite/)
- [ROR registration — Rice University](https://apis.io/apis/rice/ror/)
- [Rice University Course Schedule](https://apis.io/apis/rice/course-schedule/)
- [Rice Research Repository (DSpaceDirect tenancy) — REST API](https://apis.io/apis/rice/repository-rest/)
- [Rice Research Repository (DSpaceDirect tenancy) — OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/rice/repository-oai/)

## Tags

Open Data, Urban Research, Research Data, Datasets, Geospatial, Houston, REST, JSON

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