Ghent University

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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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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: 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