Complutense University of Madrid

aid: complutense-university-of-madrid
name: Complutense University of Madrid
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) is Spain''s largest public research university, founded 1499 and ranked
  #164 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UCM operates no central developer portal and publishes no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI
  or SDK of its own — a re-profile on 2026-08-30 probed every candidate host and found none. What it does operate, verified
  live, is two things. First, Docta Complutense (docta.ucm.es), its institutional repository, self-hosted on UCM''s own domain
  running DSpace 7.6.5: the DSpace REST/HAL API answers at /rest/api and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint answers verb=Identify at
  /rest/oai/request with twelve metadata formats. The repository is UCM''s; the API contract is DSpace''s open-source one
  and is not saved here. Second, UCM is registered in eduGAIN through the Spanish RedIRIS SIR federation as a SAML 2.0 Identity
  Provider (entityID https://www.rediris.es/sir/ucmidp, scope ucm.es, Sirtfi asserted) — machine-readable, institution-scoped,
  but hosted on RedIRIS infrastructure, so recorded as a tenant relationship. UCM''s open data is not self-hosted either:
  it is published through UniversiDATA, a five-university DKAN consortium portal (UAM, UCM, UHU, UVa, URJC) that exposes DataStore,
  CKAN and DCAT APIs. Thirteen of the portal''s seventy-one datasets are UCM''s — degree programmes, faculties, departments,
  budgets, mobility and procurement. UCM''s data, the consortium''s platform, so every UniversiDATA surface below is x-operator
  tenant, not institution. No course/timetable API, no library discovery API, no research-computing or campus-life API was
  found on any ucm.es host.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Institution-operated and consortium-hosted endpoints · free to call
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · no key required on the probed endpoints
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Public Research University
- Spain
- Madrid
- Open Data
- Research Data
- Institutional Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- DKAN
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: complutense-university-of-madrid:docta-complutense
  name: Docta Complutense Repository API (DSpace 7)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Docta Complutense is UCM''s open-access institutional repository, migrated in 2023 to DSpace 7 and self-hosted
    on UCM''s own domain. Probed 2026-08-30: GET https://docta.ucm.es/rest/api returns HTTP 200 application/json, a DSpace
    7.6.5 HAL root naming itself "Docta Complutense" and advertising 68 link relations (items, collections, communities, discover,
    bitstreams, versioning, statistics, pid). The deployment and the content are UCM''s; the API contract is the DSpace project''s
    generic one, so no specification is saved under this institution.'
  humanURL: https://docta.ucm.es/
  baseURL: https://docta.ucm.es/rest/api
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docta.ucm.es/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docta.ucm.es/rest
- aid: complutense-university-of-madrid:docta-oai-pmh
  name: Docta Complutense OAI-PMH Endpoint
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for Docta Complutense, on UCM''s own host. Probed 2026-08-30: verb=Identify
    returns HTTP 200 text/xml with repositoryName "Docta Complutense", repositoryIdentifier docta.ucm.es, adminEmail docta@ucm.es,
    earliestDatestamp 2023-06-14, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns twelve prefixes (oai_dc,
    qdc, mods, mets, marc, etdms, didl, ore, rdf, xoai, dim, uketd_dc). This is the education-regime oai-pmh conformance evidence
    and the clearest institution-operated machine-readable surface UCM has.'
  humanURL: https://docta.ucm.es/
  baseURL: https://docta.ucm.es/rest/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Harvesting
  - Metadata
  - Institutional Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docta.ucm.es/
- aid: complutense-university-of-madrid:identity-federation
  name: UCM SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'UCM''s institutional single sign-on, registered in eduGAIN through RedIRIS SIR, the Spanish national research
    and education federation. entityID https://www.rediris.es/sir/ucmidp, role IDPSSODescriptor, shibmd:Scope ucm.es, Sirtfi
    asserted, first seen in eduGAIN 2017-04-13. Probed 2026-08-30: the entityID returns HTTP 200 text/xml, 10279 bytes of
    SAML 2.0 metadata with SSOService and SingleLogoutService at https://sir.rediris.es/ucm/saml2/idp/. Operator is tenant,
    not institution — the IdP runs on RedIRIS infrastructure under a UCM-specific /ucm/ path — but the entity, the scope and
    the user population are UCM''s.'
  humanURL: https://www.rediris.es/sir/
  baseURL: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ucmidp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - eduGAIN
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/
- aid: complutense-university-of-madrid:universidata-datastore
  name: UniversiDATA DataStore API
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'DataStore query API of UniversiDATA, the DKAN open-data platform shared by five Spanish public universities
    (UAM, UCM, UHU, UVa, URJC) of which UCM is a founding member. Returns the records of a published resource as JSON, XML
    or JSONP, with limit, offset, filters, fields, sort, query and multi-resource join parameters. Probed 2026-08-30: HTTP
    200 application/json against a resource_id. The platform and the contract belong to the consortium, not to UCM alone —
    hence tenant.'
  humanURL: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
  baseURL: https://www.universidata.es/api/action/datastore/search.json
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Datastore
  - DKAN
  - Datasets
  tags_raw:
  - Open Data
  - DataStore
  - DKAN
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
- aid: complutense-university-of-madrid:universidata-ckan
  name: UniversiDATA CKAN Dataset API
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'CKAN-compatible metadata API of the UniversiDATA consortium platform, supporting current_package_list_with_resources,
    package_show and resource_show. Probed 2026-08-30: HTTP 200 application/json returning 71 packages across the five member
    universities, of which 13 are UCM''s — UCM-Titulaciones, UCM-Centros, UCM-Departamentos, UCM-Presupuesto de Gastos, UCM-Presupuesto
    de Ingresos, UCM-Movilidad-Entrantes, UCM-Movilidad-Salientes and UCM-Licitaciones de Contratos Mayores among them. The
    action root https://www.universidata.es/api/3/action/ itself returns HTTP 404, so baseURL points at the live current_package_list_with_resources
    action; other actions follow the same /api/3/action/<action> pattern.'
  humanURL: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
  baseURL: https://www.universidata.es/api/3/action/current_package_list_with_resources
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - CKAN
  - Metadata
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
- aid: complutense-university-of-madrid:universidata-dcat
  name: UniversiDATA DCAT Catalog API
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'DCAT catalogue endpoint of UniversiDATA, addressed per participating university by acronym. The UCM catalogue
    is the only UCM-specific path on this host. Probed 2026-08-30: the previously recorded base /api/universidades/ returns
    HTTP 404; /api/universidades/ucm returns HTTP 200 application/xml, 561329 bytes of rdf:RDF using dcat, dct, foaf and adms.
    The pointer has been re-based onto the working UCM path.'
  humanURL: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
  baseURL: https://universidatacatalog.azurewebsites.net/api/universidades/ucm
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - DCAT
  - Catalog
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'UCM operates no developer portal and publishes no specification of its own, but it is not a blank profile: a 2026-08-30
    re-probe confirmed two institution-operated machine-readable surfaces on ucm.es (the Docta Complutense DSpace 7.6.5 REST/HAL
    API and its OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint), one tenant identity-federation entity in eduGAIN via RedIRIS SIR, and three tenant
    open-data APIs on the five-university UniversiDATA consortium platform carrying 13 UCM datasets. The June 2026 profile
    classed the UniversiDATA hosts as institution-owned; they are not — universidata.es serves UAM, UCM, UHU, UVa and URJC,
    and the cohort-derived vendor check was blind to it because the other four members are not in the 248-university roster.
    The DCAT pointer was dead (404) and has been re-based. No course catalog, timetable, library discovery, research-computing
    or campus-life API was found on any ucm.es host; api./datos./opendata./data.ucm.es do not resolve. No llms.txt on www.ucm.es
    or docta.ucm.es (both 404). No institutional privacy-policy page could be resolved — www.ucm.es links to https://www.ucm.es/datos-personales
    from its own aviso legal and that URL returns 404 — so no PrivacyPolicy pointer is emitted.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://docta.ucm.es/rest/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://docta.ucm.es/rest/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://docta.ucm.es/rest/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ucmidp
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.universidata.es/api/3/action/current_package_list_with_resources
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.universidata.es/api/action/datastore/search.json?resource_id=84d7461c-34a9-4682-927f-3b20c1a02a3c&limit=1
    status: 200
  - url: https://universidatacatalog.azurewebsites.net/api/universidades/ucm
    status: 200
  - url: https://universidatacatalog.azurewebsites.net/api/universidades/
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.ucm.es/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.ucm.es/datos-personales
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.ucm.es/
    status: 200
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ucm.es/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docta.ucm.es/rest
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.universidata.es/el-api
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.ucm.es/portaldetransparencia/datos-abiertos
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://docta.ucm.es/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ucmidp
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://biblioteca.ucm.es/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://bouc.ucm.es/pdf/5785.pdf
- type: AITooling
  url: https://ssii.ucm.es/herramientas-ia-generativa
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ucm.es/aviso-legal
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UniversidadComplutense
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universidad-complutense-de-madrid/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/complutense-university-of-madrid-conformance.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/complutense-university-of-madrid-context.jsonld
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/complutense-university-of-madrid-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/complutense-university-of-madrid-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/complutense-university-of-madrid-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/complutense-university-of-madrid-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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