Harvard University

aid: harvard
name: Harvard University
description: 'Harvard University (Cambridge, MA; founded 1636; QS World 2025 #4) maintains a substantial public developer
  footprint spread across several units. Its most prominent fully public, key-based APIs are the Harvard Art Museums API and
  the Harvard Library LibraryCloud / Open Metadata API, both serving open collections data. Harvard University Information
  Technology (HUIT) operates a central API Portal (HarvardKey-gated) cataloging administrative APIs (Courses, Person, Dining,
  Zoom, Library Catalog), and the DASH institutional repository exposes an open OAI-PMH metadata feed.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Libraries
- Museums
- Open Metadata
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: harvard:art-museums
  name: Harvard Art Museums API
  description: REST/JSON API to the Harvard Art Museums' collections data across 21 resources (Object, Person, Exhibition,
    Publication, Gallery, Classification, Culture, Medium, Period, Place, Image, and more), with pagination, aggregations,
    and IIIF image services. Free for non-commercial use; requires an API key.
  humanURL: https://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.harvardartmuseums.org
  tags:
  - Museums
  - Art
  - Collections
  - Cultural Heritage
  - IIIF
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs
  - type: Signup
    url: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/api
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/harvardartmuseums
- aid: harvard:librarycloud
  name: Harvard Library LibraryCloud API (Open Metadata)
  description: Open metadata hub aggregating Harvard bibliographic metadata (12.7M+ bib records, image records, ArchivesSpace
    finding aids). The public Item API returns normalized MODS or Dublin Core; a Collections API is also available. No API
    key required for the public Item API.
  humanURL: https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/harvard-library-apis-datasets
  baseURL: https://api.lib.harvard.edu/v2/items.json
  tags:
  - Libraries
  - Open Metadata
  - Bibliographic
  - MODS
  - Dublin Core
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/harvard-library-apis-datasets
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/harvard-library/librarycloud
- aid: harvard:dash
  name: Harvard DASH OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard), the open-access
    institutional repository of 58,000+ scholarly works. Open, no key required.
  humanURL: https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/dash
  baseURL: https://dash.harvard.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Scholarship
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/dash
  - type: Website
    url: https://dash.harvard.edu/home
- aid: harvard:api-portal
  name: Harvard API Portal (HUIT)
  description: HUIT's central catalog of administrative APIs — Courses, Person Data Service, Library Catalog (Ex Libris Primo),
    Dining, HR Departments, Zoom, Emailer, and Generative AI APIs. OpenAPI specs are viewable in the portal; base URLs are
    gated behind HarvardKey login, app registration, and per-API access grant.
  humanURL: https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/apis
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Identity
  - Administrative
  - OpenAPI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/apis
  - type: Signup
    url: https://portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://data.harvard.edu/apis
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.harvard.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://data.harvard.edu/developers
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/harvard
- type: Status
  url: https://status.huit.harvard.edu/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Harvard
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/harvard-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/harvard-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/harvard-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com