Griffith University

aid: griffith
name: Griffith University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland, Australia, a member of the Innovative
  Research Universities (IRU) network and ranked #255 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Griffith operates no public
  developer portal and publishes no institution-authored API contract; a 2026-09-01 operator audit found that every machine-readable
  surface running under a griffith.edu.au hostname is a vendor platform under a Griffith tenancy, confirmed by DNS. Griffith
  Research Online (research-repository.griffith.edu.au) is a DSpace 7.6 repository hosted by Atmire, serving a live REST API
  and a fully conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint over Griffith''s own research outputs. lms.griffith.edu.au is an Instructure
  Canvas tenancy exposing an LTI 1.3 keyset and an OpenID Connect discovery document, with the REST API itself behind authentication.
  Griffith Experts (experts.griffith.edu.au) is a Symplectic Discovery deployment. The one surface that is unambiguously Griffith''s
  own engineering identity is its SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider, registered in the Australian Access Federation and
  exported to eduGAIN with REFEDS Research & Scholarship, Code of Conduct v2 and SIRTFI assertions. Griffith is additionally
  a registrant in DataCite, Crossref and ROR. The main website sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge and is unreadable
  to non-browser clients.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/griffith.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/griffith/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Australia
- Queensland
- Innovative Research Universities
- Research
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- Learning Management
- OAI-PMH
- Open Data
- Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: griffith:aaf-idp
  name: Griffith University SAML Identity Provider (AAF / eduGAIN)
  description: Griffith's SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://idp1.griffith.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, registered
    in the Australian Access Federation on 2023-03-06 and exported to eduGAIN as entity 673155. Scope griffith.edu.au. Asserts
    REFEDS Research & Scholarship, anonymous/pseudonymous/personalized, GEANT Data Protection Code of Conduct v1, REFEDS Code
    of Conduct v2, and SIRTFI assurance. Machine-readable SAML metadata is public at both the AAF aggregate and the institution's
    own host. Griffith also registers eight Service Providers in AAF under OrganizationName griffith.edu.au, of which only
    AusNC still resolves.
  humanURL: https://aaf.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://idp1.griffith.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  x-operator: federation
  x-operator-basis: A federation is shared by definition and the IdP behind it is the institution's. The entity, scope griffith.edu.au
    and attribute release are Griffith's; DNS shows idp1.griffith.edu.au CNAMEs to ea0e3b75322ca21d4631d2e0fa1dbcd8.idp-cname.aaf.edu.au
    and the technical contact is support@aaf.edu.au, so the hosting is AAF managed IdP infrastructure.
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - AAF
  - eduGAIN
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: authentication/griffith-identity-federation.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- aid: griffith:gro-rest
  name: Griffith Research Online (GRO) DSpace REST API
  description: REST API for Griffith Research Online, the university's institutional repository, running DSpace 7.6. Serves
    communities, collections, items, bitstreams and metadata for Griffith research outputs; the API root at /server/api returns
    dspaceName "Griffith Research Online" and dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6". The contract is DSpace's; the content, the repository
    identity and the admin contact (gro@griffith.edu.au) are Griffith's.
  humanURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: CNAME — research-repository.griffith.edu.au resolves to griffith7.cname.atmire.com. The API root additionally
    advertises atmire-versions and atmirevaluepair endpoints, confirming an Atmire-hosted DSpace rather than a Griffith-run
    deployment.
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Research
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api
- aid: griffith:gro-oai
  name: Griffith Research Online OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Griffith Research Online. The Identify response returns repositoryName
    "Griffith Research Online", adminEmail gro@griffith.edu.au, repositoryIdentifier research-repository.griffith.edu.au and
    earliestDatestamp 2014-10-10T00:59:35Z. Twelve metadata formats are served — oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, marc, rdf, ore,
    didl, dim, xoai, etdms and uketd_dc. This is the surface through which the ARDC's Research Data Australia harvests Griffith's
    research outputs.
  humanURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/oai/request
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: Same host as the GRO REST API — CNAME to griffith7.cname.atmire.com. DSpace supplies the OAI-PMH implementation;
    the repository identity it advertises is Griffith's.
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchdata.edu.au/griffith-research-online-oai-protocol/8941
- aid: griffith:experts
  name: Griffith Experts (Symplectic Discovery)
  description: Griffith Experts is the university's public researcher-profile and research-output discovery portal, running
    Symplectic Discovery (web-v6.22.0.4). Griffith's own library publishes a tutorial titled "Griffith Experts and Symplectic
    Elements". No public machine-readable API was found — the site is a single-page application that returns HTTP 200 for
    arbitrary paths (/rest and /public-api both 200 with the same SPA shell), so status codes alone must not be read as endpoint
    presence here.
  humanURL: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: CNAME — experts.griffith.edu.au resolves to griffith.discovery.symplectic.org, then lb.apse.discovery.symplectic.org.
    Symplectic (Digital Science) operates the platform.
  tags:
  - Research
  - Researcher Profiles
  - Symplectic
  - CRIS
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/GriffithUniLibrary/Griffith-Experts-and-Symplectic-Elements
- aid: griffith:canvas-lms
  name: Griffith Canvas LMS (Instructure) — LTI 1.3 and REST
  description: Griffith operates an Instructure Canvas learning management system at lms.griffith.edu.au. The tenancy exposes
    two publicly fetchable machine-readable surfaces — an LTI 1.3 platform JWKS at /api/lti/security/jwks and an OpenID Connect
    discovery document at /.well-known/openid-configuration with issuer https://lms.griffith.edu.au. The Canvas REST API itself
    is live but authenticated — /api/v1/accounts and /api/v1/users/self both return 401, while the bare /api/v1 base returns
    404, so no baseURL pointer is recorded. Instructure has noted the per-tenant API documentation will redirect to its central
    developer portal after 2026-07-01.
  humanURL: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/doc/api/index.html
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: CNAME — lms.griffith.edu.au resolves to griffith-prod-vanity.instructure.com. The vanity hostname is Griffith's;
    the Canvas software, its REST contract and its LTI implementation are Instructure's.
  tags:
  - LMS
  - Canvas
  - Instructure
  - LTI
  - OpenID Connect
  - Teaching
  - Learning
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/doc/api/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/.well-known/openid-configuration
- aid: griffith:datacite
  name: DataCite DOI Registrant — Griffith University
  description: Griffith University is a DataCite provider, registering DOIs for its research outputs and datasets. Provider
    id "griffith", symbol "GRIFFITH". Recorded as a membership fact about Griffith; the DataCite REST API contract belongs
    to DataCite and is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://datacite.org/
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-basis: api.datacite.org is an identifier registry Griffith is registered IN, not a platform Griffith operates.
    Evidenced by the provider record, not by host ownership.
  tags:
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Research Data
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/griffith
- aid: griffith:crossref
  name: Crossref Member — Griffith University
  description: Griffith University is Crossref member 5850. Two sub-unit members also resolve under the Griffith name — 50610
    Griffith Law School and 22062 School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University. Recorded as a membership
    fact; the Crossref API contract is Crossref's.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-basis: api.crossref.org is an identifier registry Griffith is registered IN. Evidenced by member id, not by host
    ownership.
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Scholarly Publishing
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.crossref.org/members/5850
- aid: griffith:ror
  name: ROR Registry Record — Griffith University
  description: Griffith University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/02sc3r913. Recorded
    as a membership fact; the ROR API contract is ROR's.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/02sc3r913
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-basis: api.ror.org is an organization identifier registry Griffith is registered IN, shared by every registered
    institution by design.
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Organization Identifiers
  - Registry
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/https%3A%2F%2Fror.org%2F02sc3r913
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/griffith-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.griffith.edu.au/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: authentication/griffith-identity-federation.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/griffith-domain-standards.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GriffithUniLibrary
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/gu-eresearch
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/griffith-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/griffith-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/griffith-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/griffith-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: tenant_only
  detail: 'Griffith University publishes no institution-authored API contract and operates no developer portal. A DNS-based
    operator audit on 2026-09-01 resolved every machine-readable surface on a griffith.edu.au hostname onto a vendor platform
    — research-repository -> atmire.com, lms -> instructure.com, experts -> symplectic.org — so all three are recorded as
    tenancies rather than as Griffith contracts. The institution''s own engineering identity is its SAML 2.0 Shibboleth IdP
    in the Australian Access Federation, exported to eduGAIN, which is recorded as `federation` and is genuinely Griffith''s.
    Three registry memberships (DataCite provider `griffith`, Crossref member 5850, ROR 02sc3r913) are recorded as facts about
    Griffith, never as Griffith contracts. Administrative, course-catalog, timetable and registrar interfaces were hunted
    and none resolve publicly — api., data., courses., programs-courses., timetable., library., sso. and idp. under griffith.edu.au
    all return NXDOMAIN. The Canvas REST API is live but authenticated (401). The main www host sits behind a Cloudflare managed
    challenge (403, cf-mitigated: challenge) for every non-browser client, including with full browser headers over HTTP/2,
    so llms.txt, robots.txt and .well-known probes could not be completed there; that is a finding about the edge, not a gap
    in Griffith''s publishing. No OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or apis.json artifact is saved for Griffith because none belonging to
    Griffith exists.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://idp1.griffith.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/api/lti/security/jwks
    status: 200
  - url: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/api/v1/accounts
    status: 401
  - url: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.griffith.edu.au/
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.griffith.edu.au/llms.txt
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.griffith.edu.au/.well-known/apis.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=Griffith
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=Griffith
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations?query=Griffith+University
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.griffith.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.griffith.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://programs-courses.griffith.edu.au/
    status: 0
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com