# Ghent University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ghent/  
**Website:** https://www.ugent.be/en  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Ghent Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ghent Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Library, Open Data, Belgium, Europe

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ghent/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.