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Ghent University

Ghent University (Universiteit Gent, UGent) is a public research university in Ghent, Belgium, founded in 1817 and ranked around #169 in the QS World University Rankings. Like almost every institution, it is a federation of buyers rather than an API producer, and its profile is written on that basis: it operates no central developer portal, no gateway and no institution-wide API programme, and most of what looks like a Ghent API on first inspection belongs to a supplier. The real programmable footprint is concentrated in one place - Ghent University Library. The Academic Bibliography at biblio.ugent.be is genuinely the university's own: a documented JSON/JSONP REST search API, fourteen export formats, a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint identifying itself as the Ghent University Institutional Archive, an SRU 1.1 service over CQL with 78 documented indexes, unAPI discovery, RSS feeds and daily full-dataset dumps, all under the Open Database License. The library also authors and open-sources the software behind it, and three of those services carry first-party OpenAPI 3.1 contracts. Beyond the library the university runs its own SAML 2.0 identity provider and eight entities in the Belgian Belnet R&E Federation, and hosts the student-built Hydra Resto API on a university domain. Everything else is somebody else's: the library catalogue is now an Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE tenancy, and Dodona, which began at Ghent, has moved to its own domain and its own pricing. There is no DataCite membership. Ghent is a Crossref member in its own name.

Ghent University publishes 40 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Add Item API, Add Metadata Format API, Add Organization API, and 37 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Research, and Research Data.

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

Ghent University’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, GitHub presence, authentication, code examples, and 19 more developer resources.

38.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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APIs 40

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

Ghent University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider

Ghent University's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, operated by the university's ICT directorate. The signed metadata document is publicly readable and carries entityID https://i...

Ghent University Library catalogue (Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE tenancy)

lib.ugent.be redirects to libcatalog.ugent.be, an Ex Libris Primo VE discovery layer running under institution code 32RUG_INST and resolving through libugent.primo.exlibrisgroup...

Dodona

Dodona is the automated programming-practice platform that originated at Ghent University and is still used in its computer-science teaching; Ghent registered it as a service pr...

Crossref membership

Ghent University is a Crossref member in its own name - member id 9286, DOI prefix 10.21825, registered in Ghent, Belgium, with 28,489 DOIs deposited (960 current, 27,529 backfi...

ROR registration

Ghent University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/00cv9y106, distinct from Ghent University Hospital (https://ror.org/00xmkp704) and HOGENT...

Ghent University Add Item API

The Add Item API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add item.

Ghent University Add Metadata Format API

The Add Metadata Format API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add metadata format.

Ghent University Add Organization API

The Add Organization API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add organization.

Ghent University Add Person API

The Add Person API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add person.

Ghent University Add Project API

The Add Project API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add project.

Ghent University Add Record API

The Add Record API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add record.

Ghent University Add Set API

The Add Set API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add set.

Ghent University Delete Project API

The Delete Project API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for delete project.

Ghent University Delete Record API

The Delete Record API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for delete record.

Ghent University Dumps API

Daily full-dataset dumps under ODbL.

Ghent University Export API

Per-record and result-set exports in bibliographic formats.

Ghent University Feeds API

RSS 1.0 feeds for any CQL search.

Ghent University Food API

The Food API from Ghent University — 6 operation(s) for food.

Ghent University Get Organization API

The Get Organization API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get organization.

Ghent University Get Organizations API

The Get Organizations API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get organizations.

Ghent University Get Organizations By Id API

The Get Organizations By Id API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get organizations by id.

Ghent University Get Organizations By Identifier API

The Get Organizations By Identifier API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get organizations by identifier.

Ghent University Get People API

The Get People API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get people.

Ghent University Get People By Id API

The Get People By Id API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get people by id.

Ghent University Get People By Identifier API

The Get People By Identifier API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get people by identifier.

Ghent University Get Person API

The Get Person API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get person.

Ghent University Get Project API

The Get Project API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for get project.

Ghent University Locations API

The Locations API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for locations.

Ghent University Menu API

The Menu API from Ghent University — 2 operation(s) for menu.

Ghent University OAI PMH API

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting.

Ghent University Search API

REST search over publications and datasets.

Ghent University Set Person Orcid API

The Set Person Orcid API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for set person orcid.

Ghent University Set Person Role API

The Set Person Role API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for set person role.

Ghent University Set Person Settings API

The Set Person Settings API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for set person settings.

Ghent University Set Person Token API

The Set Person Token API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for set person token.

Ghent University SRU API

SRU 1.1 search/retrieve over CQL.

Ghent University Suggest Organizations API

The Suggest Organizations API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for suggest organizations.

Ghent University Suggest People API

The Suggest People API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for suggest people.

Ghent University Suggest Projects API

The Suggest Projects API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for suggest projects.

Ghent University Un API

unAPI 1 alternate-format discovery.

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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

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Ghent Biblio Publication

69 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hydra Resto API payloads

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Ghent Biblio Publication

34 fields

EXAMPLE

Ghent Hydra Resto Meta

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Ghent Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Ghent Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: ghent
name: Ghent University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Ghent University (Universiteit Gent, UGent) is a public research university in Ghent, Belgium, founded in 1817
  and ranked around #169 in the QS World University Rankings. Like almost every institution, it is a federation of buyers
  rather than an API producer, and its profile is written on that basis: it operates no central developer portal, no gateway
  and no institution-wide API programme, and most of what looks like a Ghent API on first inspection belongs to a supplier.
  The real programmable footprint is concentrated in one place - Ghent University Library. The Academic Bibliography at biblio.ugent.be
  is genuinely the university''s own: a documented JSON/JSONP REST search API, fourteen export formats, a live OAI-PMH 2.0
  endpoint identifying itself as the Ghent University Institutional Archive, an SRU 1.1 service over CQL with 78 documented
  indexes, unAPI discovery, RSS feeds and daily full-dataset dumps, all under the Open Database License. The library also
  authors and open-sources the software behind it, and three of those services carry first-party OpenAPI 3.1 contracts. Beyond
  the library the university runs its own SAML 2.0 identity provider and eight entities in the Belgian Belnet R&E Federation,
  and hosts the student-built Hydra Resto API on a university domain. Everything else is somebody else''s: the library catalogue
  is now an Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE tenancy, and Dodona, which began at Ghent, has moved to its own domain and its own pricing.
  There is no DataCite membership. Ghent is a Crossref member in its own name.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - ugent-library/alma-go
    - ugent-library/oai-service
    - ugent-library/people-service
    - ugent-library/projects-service
    - zeuswpi/hydra
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free and open, no registration on the public surfaces
  confidence: high
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
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:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- Research Data
- Library
- Open Data
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Belgium
- Flanders
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Ghent operates a real, documented, unauthenticated institutional surface and this profile reaches it. Every endpoint
    claimed here was probed on 2026-09-01: the bibliography search API, exports, OAI-PMH, SRU, unAPI, sitemap and feeds all
    returned 200; the Hydra Resto API returned 200 on all nine documented paths; the university''s SAML IdP metadata returned
    200. Three first-party OpenAPI 3.1 contracts were found in the Ghent University Library GitHub organization and are saved
    here. Two claims in the previous profile did not survive probing and have been corrected rather than dropped: the library
    catalogue''s OAI-PMH, SRU, IIIF and OpenSearch interfaces at lib.ugent.be now 404, because lib.ugent.be redirects to an
    Ex Libris Primo VE deployment (institution code 32RUG_INST) which is recorded as a tenant relationship; and the Hydra
    day-menu path takes unpadded date components, where the padded form 404s. No surface was blocked, gated or unreadable.
    The single unreachable host was apivsc.ugent.be, a VSC research-computing service provider registered in the Belnet federation
    whose DNS does not resolve publicly.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication?q=dna&format=json
    status: 200
  - url: https://biblio.ugent.be/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://biblio.ugent.be/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dna
    status: 200
  - url: https://biblio.ugent.be/unapi
    status: 200
  - url: https://biblio.ugent.be/siteindex.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://biblio.ugent.be/schema/publication.schema.latest.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://hydra.ugent.be/api/2.0/resto/meta.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://hydra.ugent.be/api/2.0/resto/menu/en/2026/9/1.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://hydra.ugent.be/api/2.0/resto/menu/en/2026/09/01.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://identity.ugent.be/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://federation.belnet.be/federation-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://lib.ugent.be/oai
    status: 404
  - url: https://lib.ugent.be/sru
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/9286
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=ugent
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations?query=Ghent+University
    status: 200
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/people-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
    status: 200
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/projects-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
    status: 200
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/oai-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
    status: 200
apis:
- aid: ghent:saml-idp
  name: Ghent University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
  x-operator: federation
  description: Ghent University's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, operated by the university's ICT directorate. The signed
    metadata document is publicly readable and carries entityID https://identity.ugent.be/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php
    on a certificate issued to O=Universiteit Gent, OU=Directie ICT, CN=identity.ugent.be, with the Shibboleth metadata extension
    namespace declared. Ghent is a member of the Belnet R&E Federation, the Belgian national identity federation, where eight
    ugent.be entities appear - this IdP plus seven service providers including apivsc.ugent.be (Flemish Supercomputer Centre),
    sso.irc.ugent.be, naos.ugent.be and login.psb.ugent.be. A federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind it is the
    institution's.
  humanURL: https://federation.belnet.be/
  baseURL: https://identity.ugent.be/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  - Belnet
  tags_raw:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign On
  - Belnet
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://identity.ugent.be/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://federation.belnet.be/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ghent-education-standards-conformance.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/ghent-saml-idp-metadata.xml
- aid: ghent:library-catalog
  name: Ghent University Library catalogue (Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'lib.ugent.be redirects to libcatalog.ugent.be, an Ex Libris Primo VE discovery layer running under institution
    code 32RUG_INST and resolving through libugent.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. The catalogue is Ghent''s - the collections, the
    holdings, the institution code - but the contract is Ex Libris''s and is not saved here. This entry also records a correction:
    the OAI-PMH, SRU, IIIF and OpenSearch interfaces the previous profile credited to lib.ugent.be were re-probed on 2026-09-01
    and return 404. They belonged to the library''s earlier self-built catalogue and did not survive the move to Primo VE.
    Ghent University Library continues to publish its own Ex Libris Alma client and SDK as open source.'
  humanURL: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog
  tags:
  - Library
  - Catalog
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - Catalog
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: LibraryCatalog
    url: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ugent-library/alma-go
- aid: ghent:dodona
  name: Dodona
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Dodona is the automated programming-practice platform that originated at Ghent University and is still used
    in its computer-science teaching; Ghent registered it as a service provider in the Belnet R&E Federation under https://dodona.ugent.be/users/saml/metadata.
    It is recorded as a tenant relationship, not a Ghent surface, because dodona.ugent.be now 301-redirects to dodona.be,
    which is operated on its own domain with its own pricing behind Cloudflare. Its JSON API (any path with a .json suffix)
    and its LTI content-selection endpoint are Dodona's, and no Dodona contract is saved under Ghent.
  humanURL: https://dodona.be/
  tags:
  - Education Technology
  - Learning Platform
  - LTI
  - Tenants
  - Spin-out
  tags_raw:
  - Education Technology
  - Learning Platform
  - LTI
  - Tenant
  - Spin-out
  properties:
  - type: AITooling
    url: https://dodona.be/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dodona.be/en/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/dodona-edu
- aid: ghent:crossref
  name: Crossref membership
  x-operator: registry
  description: Ghent University is a Crossref member in its own name - member id 9286, DOI prefix 10.21825, registered in
    Ghent, Belgium, with 28,489 DOIs deposited (960 current, 27,529 backfile) as of 2026-09-01. This is a fact about the institution,
    recorded as a membership. Crossref's own API contract is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/9286
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Registry
  - Membership
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.crossref.org/members/9286
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ghent-education-standards-conformance.yml
- aid: ghent:ror
  name: ROR registration
  x-operator: registry
  description: Ghent University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/00cv9y106, distinct
    from Ghent University Hospital (https://ror.org/00xmkp704) and HOGENT (https://ror.org/00rs45z86), both of which are separate
    organizations frequently conflated with it. Recorded as a registration, not as an API of Ghent's.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/00cv9y106
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/00cv9y106
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://ror.org/00cv9y106
- aid: ghent:ghent-add-item-api
  name: Ghent University Add Item API
  description: The Add Item API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add item.
  humanURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  baseURL: https://biblio.ugent.be
  tags:
  - Add Item
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ghent-add-item-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ghent-biblio-publication-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/ghent-biblio-cql-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/ghent-examples.yml
  - type: License
    url: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ghent-education-standards-conformance.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/ghent-biblio-oai-identify.xml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/blob/master/api-resto-02.md
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ghent-hydra-resto-schema.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/master/api-resto-02.md
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/ghent-hydra-resto-meta.json
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ghent-lifecycle.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/people-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ugent-library/people-service
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ghent-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/ghent-errors.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/projects-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ugent-library/projects-service
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/oai-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ugent-library/oai-service
- aid: ghent:ghent-add-metadata-format-api
  name: Ghent University Add Metadata Format API
  description: The Add Metadata Format API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add metadata format.
  humanURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  baseURL: https://biblio.ugent.be
  tags:
  - Add Metadata Format
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ghent-add-metadata-format-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ghent-biblio-publication-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/ghent-biblio-cql-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/ghent-examples.yml
  - type: License
    url: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ghent-education-standards-conformance.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/ghent-biblio-oai-identify.xml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/blob/master/api-resto-02.md
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ghent-hydra-resto-schema.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeusWPI/hydra/master/api-resto-02.md
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ZeusWPI/hydra
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/ghent-hydra-resto-meta.json
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ghent-lifecycle.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/people-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ugent-library/people-service
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ghent-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/ghent-errors.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/projects-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ugent-library/projects-service
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ugent-library/oai-service/main/api/v1/openapi.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ugent-library/oai-service
- aid: ghent:ghent-add-organization-api
  name: Ghent University Add Organization API
  description: The Add Organization API from Ghent University — 1 operation(s) for add organization.
  humanURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  baseURL: https://biblio.ugent.be
  tags:
  - Add Organization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ghent-add-organization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  - type: JSONSchema
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  name: Ghent University Dumps API
  description: Daily full-dataset dumps under ODbL.
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- aid: ghent:ghent-export-api
  name: Ghent University Export API
  description: Per-record and result-set exports in bibliographic formats.
  humanURL: https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
  baseURL: https://biblio.ugent.be
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