# Harvard University **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/harvard/ **Website:** https://www.harvard.edu/ **APIs profiled:** 14 Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts; founded 1636; private, Ivy League) is one of the few institutions in this cohort with a genuinely institution-operated programmable footprint rather than a borrowed one. Five surfaces are Harvard's own: the Harvard Dataverse research data repository, which runs on Harvard's own infrastructure and whose Dataverse software is written by Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and serves a live 450-path OpenAPI; the Harvard Library LibraryCloud open metadata API, unauthenticated over 12M+ bibliographic records; the Harvard Art Museums collections API; a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the InCommon federation with REFEDS SIRTFI assurance; and two Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab surfaces, the Caselaw Access Project static bulk data and a 2026 OpenAPI 3.1 agent-skills hub. Alongside them sit five vendor tenancies that are just as real and are recorded as such rather than credited to Harvard: DASH runs on 4Science's managed DSpace behind a harvard.edu hostname, the HOLLIS catalog is an Ex Libris Primo VE instance, harvard.figshare.com is a Figshare tenancy, canvas.harvard.edu is an Instructure tenancy, and harvard.zoom.us is a Zoom tenancy. There is no unified developer program: the central HUIT API Portal exists but its catalog, its base URLs and its credentials all sit behind HarvardKey, and the whole harvard.edu Drupal estate answers automated clients with an Akamai 403. ## Kin Score — 47.7 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+26.7 from 21.0). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 64.8 | | Contract Quality | 53.5 | | Governance | 11.4 | | Contract Governance | 11.4 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 | | Commercial Clarity | 39.5 | | Access Clarity | 39.5 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 68.5 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 33.3 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | yes | ## Access Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium). ## APIs (14) - **Harvard Dataverse API** — Native REST API of Harvard Dataverse, the institution's research data repository, running Dataverse 6.10.1 (build iqss-4) on Harvard's own AWS infrastructure with no vendor CNAM... - **Harvard Dataverse OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Harvard Dataverse. Identify returns repositoryName "Harvard Dataverse Dataverse OAI Archive" with adminEmail support@dataverse.harva... - **Harvard Library LibraryCloud API (Open Metadata)** — Open metadata hub aggregating Harvard bibliographic metadata (12.7M+ bib records, image records, ArchivesSpace finding aids) and returning normalized MODS or Dublin Core. The pu... - **Harvard Art Museums API** — REST/JSON API to the Harvard Art Museums' collections across 25 documented resources (object, person, exhibition, publication, gallery, classification, culture, medium, period, ... - **Harvard University Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)** — Harvard's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://fed.huit.harvard.edu/idp/shibboleth, registered in the InCommon federation and reachable as signed machine-readable metada... - **Legal Ed Skills Hub (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab)** — A 2026 agent-native surface from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab: a static JSON API for progressively discovering and loading pedagogical AI skills for legal educa... - **Caselaw Access Project bulk data (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)** — Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's digitization of US case law, served as static bulk data organized by reporter. The live REST API at api.case.law was retired in 2024 ... - **Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)** — Perma.cc is the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's link-rot service, creating permanent citable archives of web pages, and it exposes a public REST API at api.perma.cc.... - **Harvard API Portal (HUIT)** — Harvard University Information Technology's central catalog of administrative APIs - Courses, Person Data Service, Library Catalog, Dining, HR Departments, Zoom, Emailer and Gen... - **Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)** — DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) is Harvard's open-access institutional repository of 58,000+ scholarly works, exposing an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and a DSpace ... - **HOLLIS library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)** — HOLLIS is Harvard Library's discovery layer. hollis.harvard.edu CNAMEs to hvd.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and redirects to /discovery/search?vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2, a standard Ex Libri... - **Harvard Figshare tenancy** — harvard.figshare.com is a Figshare institutional tenancy - the host CNAMEs directly to figshare.com. This is precisely the surface that produced the misattribution this pipeline... - **Canvas LMS tenancy (Instructure)** — canvas.harvard.edu CNAMEs to harvard-vanity.instructure.com. The Canvas REST API is live on that hostname and returns a well-formed JSON 401 to an anonymous caller, which makes ... - **Zoom tenancy** — harvard.zoom.us is a Zoom institutional tenancy branded "Zoom for Harvard", and a Zoom API appears in the HUIT API Portal catalog. The account is Harvard's; the API is Zoom's. R... ## Security (3) - **Harvard Authentication** — 8 schemes - **Harvard Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC - **Harvard Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published ## Plans (1) - **Harvard Plans Pricing** ## Tags University, Higher Education, Education, United States, Ivy League, Private Research University, Research Data, Research Repository, Open Metadata, OAI-PMH, Identity Federation, Libraries, Museums, Course Catalog, Research Computing --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/harvard/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.