# ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare API)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/zivahub-figshare/  
**Provider:** University of Cape Town — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-cape-town/  
**Base URL:** https://api.figshare.com/v2  
**Documentation:** https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/

ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare API) is one of 7 APIs that [University of Cape Town](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-cape-town/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Open Data, Research Data, Figshare, Repository, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

ZivaHub is UCT's institutional open data repository for research data and scholarly outputs, powered by Figshare for Institutions and certified with the CoreTrustSeal in 2025. Public ZivaHub content is accessible programmatically through the public Figshare REST API, which provides article, collection, and project metadata in JSON.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.figshare.com/
- **Website** — https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/

## Other University of Cape Town APIs (6)

- [DataFirst Microdata Catalog API (NADA)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/datafirst-nada/)
- [OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/openuct-oai-pmh/)
- [University of Cape Town articles API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-articles-api/)
- [University of Cape Town catalog API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-catalog-api/)
- [University of Cape Town collections API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-collections-api/)
- [University of Cape Town projects API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-projects-api/)

## Tags

Open Data, Research Data, Figshare, Repository, Metadata

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