Deakin University

aid: deakin
name: Deakin University
description: 'Deakin University is a public research university in Victoria, Australia, with campuses in Geelong, Warrnambool
  and Melbourne, ranked #197 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most universities, Deakin operates an integration-heavy
  IT estate (its SSO is a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider) but does not publish a public, self-service developer API portal.
  Its confirmed public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in research infrastructure: the Deakin Research Online
  (DRO) repository runs on figshare (which exposes a public OAI-PMH and REST API), a public Data Portal for sharing research
  datasets, and an active GitHub organization. Most catalogued surfaces below are third-party-hosted or gated rather than
  first-party, documented APIs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: deakin:dro-oai
  name: Deakin Research Online (DRO) OAI-PMH
  description: Deakin Research Online is the university's research repository, now hosted on the figshare platform. It exposes
    research-output metadata for harvesting via the OAI-PMH protocol. The DRO host issues a bot-challenge response to automated
    clients; the underlying figshare OAI-PMH service is publicly reachable.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://info.figshare.com/user-guide/how-to-use-figshares-oai-pmh-service/
- aid: deakin:figshare-api
  name: figshare REST API (DRO platform)
  description: Deakin Research Online runs on figshare, whose public REST API (v2) provides programmatic access to articles,
    collections and metadata across hosted institutional repositories. This is a third-party platform API underpinning DRO
    rather than a Deakin-branded API.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - REST
  - figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-figshare-api.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:data-portal
  name: Deakin Data Portal
  description: A public portal for Deakin researchers and research groups to share data and collected materials with the Australian
    research community. It is a web-delivered data-sharing platform; no documented public API was confirmed, so it is catalogued
    as a data property rather than a documented API surface.
  humanURL: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Research
  - Data Portal
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
- aid: deakin:sso
  name: Deakin Single Sign-On (Shibboleth/SAML2 IdP)
  description: Deakin operates a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider for single sign-on across university systems. The IdP
    metadata endpoint is publicly reachable, but this is federated SSO infrastructure for relying parties, not a documented
    public OAuth/OpenID developer API.
  humanURL: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.deakin.edu.au/login_locate_sso.do
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Deakin
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/deakin-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/deakin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/deakin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/deakin-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com