Hkust Context

{
  "@context": {
    "@vocab": "https://schema.org/",
    "hkust": "https://www.ust.hk/ns#",
    "name": "name",
    "url": "url",
    "description": "description",
    "CollegeOrUniversity": "CollegeOrUniversity",
    "EducationalOrganization": "EducationalOrganization",
    "WebAPI": "WebAPI",
    "documentation": "documentation",
    "endpointURL": "https://schema.org/EntryPoint",
    "address": "address",
    "areaServed": "areaServed",
    "sameAs": "sameAs",
    "operator": {
      "@id": "hkust:operator"
    },
    "api": {
      "@id": "hkust:api",
      "@container": "@set"
    }
  },
  "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
  "@id": "https://www.ust.hk/",
  "name": "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology",
  "url": "https://www.ust.hk/",
  "description": "Public research university in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR. One public keyless API of its own (the Path Advisor campus wayfinding API), an affiliation-gated Azure API Management gateway run by ITSO, a self-hosted Dataverse research data repository, and a Shibboleth identity provider published into eduGAIN.",
  "areaServed": "Hong Kong SAR",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://hk.linkedin.com/school/hkust/",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_University_of_Science_and_Technology"
  ],
  "hkust:provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-30",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "Derived from apis.yml after live re-verification of every surface on 2026-08-30. The 'operator' key states who runs each thing, which for a university is rarely the institution."
  },
  "api": [
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "@id": "hkust:api/path-advisor",
      "name": "HKUST Path Advisor API",
      "url": "https://pathadvisor.ust.hk/",
      "endpointURL": "https://pathadvisor.ust.hk/api",
      "documentation": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/main/openapi/hkust-path-advisor-openapi.yml",
      "operator": "institution",
      "description": "Public, keyless JSON API serving the HKUST campus spatial model: buildings, calibrated floor plans, point-of-interest categories, and named nodes with GeoJSON footprints. The one API found on an HKUST host that needs no affiliation and no key."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "@id": "hkust:api/gateway",
      "name": "HKUST API Gateway and API Portal",
      "url": "https://hkust.developer.azure-api.net/",
      "endpointURL": "https://hkust.azure-api.net",
      "documentation": "https://itso.hkust.edu.hk/services/it-infrastructure/api-gateway-api-portal",
      "operator": "tenant",
      "description": "HKUST's Azure API Management tenant, run by the IT Services Office. Live and callable, but every product requires an ITSO account, a subscription request and human approval; the catalog is not enumerable anonymously."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "@id": "hkust:api/dataspace",
      "name": "DataSpace@HKUST Research Data Repository API",
      "url": "https://dataspace.hkust.edu.hk/",
      "endpointURL": "https://dataspace.hkust.edu.hk/api",
      "documentation": "https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html",
      "operator": "institution",
      "description": "Dataverse 6.1 self-hosted on HKUST's own domain and network, serving 151 published datasets over the upstream Dataverse Native REST API. HKUST operates the deployment; the API contract is the Dataverse project's and is deliberately not republished here."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "@id": "hkust:api/identity-federation",
      "name": "HKUST Shibboleth Identity Provider",
      "url": "https://idp.ust.hk/idp/shibboleth",
      "endpointURL": "https://idp.ust.hk/idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO",
      "documentation": "https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=show_entity&entityid=https://idp.ust.hk/idp/shibboleth",
      "operator": "institution",
      "description": "SAML 2.0 identity provider serving machine-readable metadata, registered by the Hong Kong Access Federation and published into eduGAIN with the REFEDS Research and Scholarship and SIRTFI entity categories."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebAPI",
      "@id": "hkust:api/open-data-platform",
      "name": "HKUST Open Data Platform",
      "url": "https://itso.hkust.edu.hk/services/it-infrastructure/smart-campus-infrastructure/open-data-platform",
      "documentation": "https://itso.hkust.edu.hk/services/it-infrastructure/smart-campus-infrastructure/open-data-platform/retrieve-iot-data-api",
      "operator": "institution",
      "description": "Elastic Stack repository for smart-campus and IoT sensor data. Reached only through the API Gateway, with a subscription key issued after review; there is no open self-service endpoint."
    }
  ]
}