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Ghent University

Ghent University (Universiteit Gent, UGent) is a major public research university in Ghent, Belgium, ranked #169 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint centers on the Ghent University Library: the Academic Bibliography (biblio.ugent.be) exposes a documented REST search API plus OAI-PMH, SRU, unAPI and bulk data dumps under an ODbL license, and the library catalog (lib.ugent.be) offers OAI-PMH, SRU, IIIF and OpenSearch interfaces. The university maintains official GitHub organizations (ugent, ugent-library), and the student computer-science group Zeus WPI publishes the open Hydra Resto API for student-restaurant menu data. There is no single centralized, gateway-style institutional developer portal; APIs are documented per service.

Ghent University publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Library.

The Ghent University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Ghent University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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19.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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5 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchLibraryOpen DataBelgiumEurope

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Composite quality — 19.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Ghent University Academic Bibliography API

The Academic Bibliography (Biblio) provides programmatic access to UGent research publication metadata via a REST search API (JSON/JSONP), an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint, an...

Ghent University Academic Bibliography OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the UGent Academic Bibliography, supporting Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListRecords verbs for full or selective harvesting of ...

Ghent University Academic Bibliography SRU

SRU 1.1 search/retrieve service for the UGent Academic Bibliography using Contextual Query Language (CQL), returning XML records for publication searches with sorting support.

Ghent University Library Catalog Interfaces

The Ghent University Library catalog (lib.ugent.be) exposes machine interfaces for its collections, including OAI-PMH metadata harvesting, SRU search with CQL, IIIF (Presentatio...

Hydra Resto API (Zeus WPI)

Open JSON API published by Zeus WPI, the computer-science student working group at Ghent University, powering the Hydra student app. The Resto API (v2.0) serves UGent student-re...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ghent Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ghent Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ghent Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ghent Context

19 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ghent Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub
 SourceCode
SourceCode

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ghent
name: Ghent University
description: 'Ghent University (Universiteit Gent, UGent) is a major public research university in Ghent, Belgium, ranked
  #169 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint centers on the Ghent University Library: the
  Academic Bibliography (biblio.ugent.be) exposes a documented REST search API plus OAI-PMH, SRU, unAPI and bulk data dumps
  under an ODbL license, and the library catalog (lib.ugent.be) offers OAI-PMH, SRU, IIIF and OpenSearch interfaces. The university
  maintains official GitHub organizations (ugent, ugent-library), and the student computer-science group Zeus WPI publishes
  the open Hydra Resto API for student-restaurant menu data. There is no single centralized, gateway-style institutional developer
  portal; APIs are documented per service.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ghent.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ghent/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Open Data
- Belgium
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ghent:biblio
  name: Ghent University Academic Bibliography API
  description: The Academic Bibliography (Biblio) provides programmatic access to UGent research publication metadata via
    a REST search API (JSON/JSONP), an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint, an SRU 1.1 search service using CQL, a unAPI discovery
    service, and daily bulk data dumps (CSV, JSON, MODS) under the Open Database License (ODbL).
  humanURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  baseURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication
  tags:
  - Research
  - Publications
  - Bibliography
  - Open Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - SRU
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
- aid: ghent:biblio-oai
  name: Ghent University Academic Bibliography OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the UGent Academic Bibliography, supporting Identify, ListMetadataFormats
    and ListRecords verbs for full or selective harvesting of publication records.
  humanURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  baseURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research
  - Publications
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
- aid: ghent:biblio-sru
  name: Ghent University Academic Bibliography SRU
  description: SRU 1.1 search/retrieve service for the UGent Academic Bibliography using Contextual Query Language (CQL),
    returning XML records for publication searches with sorting support.
  humanURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  baseURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/sru
  tags:
  - SRU
  - CQL
  - Research
  - Publications
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
- aid: ghent:library-catalog
  name: Ghent University Library Catalog Interfaces
  description: The Ghent University Library catalog (lib.ugent.be) exposes machine interfaces for its collections, including
    OAI-PMH metadata harvesting, SRU search with CQL, IIIF (Presentation API v2) for digitized images, and OpenSearch for
    search-result feeds. Per-item pages include a developer section listing available formats; metadata is published under
    the Open Database License.
  humanURL: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog
  tags:
  - Library
  - Catalog
  - OAI-PMH
  - SRU
  - IIIF
  - OpenSearch
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog
- aid: ghent:hydra-resto
  name: Hydra Resto API (Zeus WPI)
  description: Open JSON API published by Zeus WPI, the computer-science student working group at Ghent University, powering
    the Hydra student app. The Resto API (v2.0) serves UGent student-restaurant locations, daily menus, sandwiches, salads
    and allergen information. Community-maintained, not an official university service.
  humanURL: https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/blob/master/api-resto-02.md
  baseURL: https://hydra.ugent.be/api/2.0/resto
  tags:
  - Mobile
  - Student
  - Menu
  - Open Data
  - Community
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/blob/master/api-resto-02.md
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ghent-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ugent.be/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ugent
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ugent-library
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ghent-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ghent-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ghent-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ghent-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com