Hokkaido University

aid: hokkaido
name: Hokkaido University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Hokkaido University (北海道大学) is a national research university in Sapporo, Japan, founded in 1876 as Sapporo
  Agricultural College, a member of Japan''s Designated National University group and ranked #173 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. It operates 12 undergraduate schools, 21 graduate schools and numerous research institutes. Its public programmable
  footprint is small and honest: the university publishes no developer portal, no API gateway and no documented public REST
  API — api., data., opendata., developer. and status.hokudai.ac.jp all fail to resolve, and the WordPress REST API on its
  English site is explicitly disabled. What it does operate, and what this profile is built on, is scholarly identity infrastructure.
  It runs its own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider registered in GakuNin, the Japanese national academic access federation;
  it holds Handle System prefix 2115 and JaLC DOI prefix 10.14943 for the HUSCAP institutional repository; and it publishes
  crawlable XML sitemaps for both HUSCAP and its main web estate. HUSCAP''s OAI-PMH endpoint is the one real regression: IRDB
  still harvests the repository by OAI-PMH, but no base URL has been publicly documented since the December 2025 platform
  migration and eighteen candidate paths were probed unsuccessfully.'
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/hokkaido.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hokkaido/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Japan
- National University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- Research Computing
- Course Catalog
- Persistent Identifiers
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: hokkaido:saml-idp
  name: Hokkaido University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
  x-operator: institution
  description: Hokkaido University's own Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://shib-idp01.iic.hokudai.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth,
    scope hokudai.ac.jp, registered in the GakuNin national academic federation since 2010-03-16. The SAML metadata document
    is served from the university's own host and the signing certificate is issued to O=Hokkaido University by the NII Open
    Domain CA. This is the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface the university has.
  humanURL: https://www.iic.hokudai.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://aidipigakunin2.oicte.hokudai.ac.jp/saml/saml2/idp/metadata.php
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - GakuNin
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hokkaido-saml-idp.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hokkaido-conformance.yml
- aid: hokkaido:gakunin
  name: GakuNin Academic Access Management Federation
  x-operator: federation
  description: 'Membership of GakuNin (学術認証フェデレーション), the Japanese national academic identity federation operated by the National
    Institute of Informatics. The aggregate at metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp carries 650 entities, four of them Hokkaido University''s
    — one identity provider and three service providers (RISS, WeBWorK, MDS Platform), all on hokudai.ac.jp hosts. Recorded
    as a relationship: the federation aggregate is NII''s document, shared by definition, and the identity provider behind
    Hokkaido''s entry is the university''s own.'
  humanURL: https://www.gakunin.jp/
  baseURL: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Metadata
  - GakuNin
  - Japan
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hokkaido-saml-idp.yml
- aid: hokkaido:huscap-sitemap
  name: HUSCAP XML Sitemaps
  x-operator: institution
  description: Publicly crawlable XML sitemap index for HUSCAP, the Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic
    Papers, providing a machine-readable list of repository item URLs across seven child sitemaps refreshed daily. Explicitly
    permitted by the repository's robots.txt, which otherwise disallows crawling. The only machine-readable interface HUSCAP
    currently offers.
  humanURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
  tags:
  - Sitemap
  - XML
  - Discovery
  - Open Access
  - Research Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/support/huscap/
  - type: RobotsTxt
    url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/robots.txt
- aid: hokkaido:web-sitemaps
  name: Hokkaido University Web Sitemaps
  x-operator: institution
  description: XML sitemaps for the university's two public web estates — the 2.4 MB sitemap.xml on the Japanese site and
    the WordPress core sitemap index on the English global site. Machine-readable and institution-operated, though the WordPress
    REST API behind the English site is explicitly disabled and returns {"code":"rest_disabled"}.
  humanURL: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap.xml
  tags:
  - Sitemap
  - XML
  - Discovery
  - Website
  properties:
  - type: Sitemap
    url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/wp-sitemap.xml
- aid: hokkaido:handle-2115
  name: Handle System Prefix 2115
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'Hokkaido University Library holds Handle System naming authority prefix 2115, which mints the persistent identifiers
    on every HUSCAP record (hdl.handle.net/2115/…). Registered since 2005 and administratively current — the naming-authority
    record carries contact addresses at lib.hokudai.ac.jp, most recently updated 2024-06-24. Recorded as a registry membership:
    the Handle System''s own contract belongs to the DONA Foundation, the registration is a fact about Hokkaido University.'
  humanURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2115/301
  baseURL: https://hdl.handle.net/api/handles/0.NA/2115
  tags:
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Handle
  - Registry
  - Research Repository
- aid: hokkaido:jalc-doi-10-14943
  name: JaLC DOI Prefix 10.14943
  x-operator: registry
  description: Hokkaido University registers DOIs through JaLC, the Japan Link Center, under prefix 10.14943. Confirmed from
    the DOI Registration Agency resolver (doi.org/doiRA/10.14943 returns RA "JaLC"), from the Handle naming-authority record
    for 10.14943 which delegates to service 10.SERV/JALC, and from the JaLC DOI API, which returns publisher_list "Hokkaido
    University" / "北海道大学" for a live HUSCAP DOI. The university library states explicitly that HUSCAP mints JaLC DOIs and
    cannot mint DataCite or Crossref DOIs.
  humanURL: https://www.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/support/huscap_doi/
  baseURL: https://api.japanlinkcenter.org/dois/10.14943/bfhhs.165.l129
  tags:
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - DOI
  - JaLC
  - Registry
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hokkaido-conformance.yml
- aid: hokkaido:ror
  name: ROR Registry Record
  x-operator: registry
  description: Research Organization Registry record https://ror.org/02e16g702, types education and funder, established 1876,
    located Sapporo, Japan. Carries the university's cross-registry identifiers — Crossref Funder ID 501100005946, GRID grid.39158.36,
    ISNI 0000 0001 2173 7691, Wikidata Q1057199. Recorded as a registry membership; the ROR API contract is ROR's.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/02e16g702
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/organizations/https%3A%2F%2Fror.org%2F02e16g702
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - ROR
  - Research
- aid: hokkaido:crossref-5618
  name: Crossref Member 5618 — Department of Mathematics
  x-operator: registry
  description: Crossref membership held at department level, not institution level. Member 5618, "Department of Mathematics,
    Hokkaido University", prefix 10.14492, 1,820 registered DOIs. Recorded because it is real and current, and scoped precisely
    because the institutional repository explicitly does not mint Crossref DOIs.
  humanURL: https://www.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/5618
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Research
- aid: hokkaido:syllabus
  name: Hokkaido University Syllabus Search (学務システム)
  x-operator: institution
  description: Public course catalog and syllabus search, institution-operated on the gakumu.academic.hokudai.ac.jp host.
    Live and open to the public, but web-only — an ASP.NET WebForms application with no documented programmatic interface,
    no sitemap and no machine-readable course export. The older syllabus01.academic.hokudai.ac.jp system it replaced no longer
    resolves. Recorded as a surface class the institution genuinely runs, with the absence of a machine-readable contract
    stated rather than implied.
  humanURL: https://gakumu.academic.hokudai.ac.jp/Portal/Public/Syllabus/SearchMain.aspx
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Syllabus
  - Registrar
  - Web Only
- aid: hokkaido:hucc
  name: Interdisciplinary Large-scale Computing System (HUCC)
  x-operator: institution
  description: The Information Initiative Center's supercomputer and research cloud service — Grand Chariot 2 and the research
    cloud system — documented in Japanese and English with a published application and allocation process. Institution-operated
    research computing. No service catalog API, allocation API or job-submission API is publicly documented; access is applied
    for through a user portal that requires institutional affiliation.
  humanURL: https://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/en/overview/ilcs/
  tags:
  - Research Computing
  - HPC
  - Supercomputing
  - Web Only
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/
- type: About
  url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/about/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://www.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://gakumu.academic.hokudai.ac.jp/Portal/Public/Syllabus/SearchMain.aspx
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://aidipigakunin2.oicte.hokudai.ac.jp/saml/saml2/idp/metadata.php
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/en/overview/ilcs/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.open-ed.hokudai.ac.jp/%E6%9C%AA%E5%88%86%E9%A1%9E/31-3.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/privacy-policy/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/support/huscap/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hokkaidouni/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hokkaido-saml-idp.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hokkaido-conformance.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/hokkaido-context.jsonld
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hokkaido-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hokkaido-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hokkaido-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/hokkaido-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  detail: 'Every surface class the university pipeline hunts was probed live on 2026-09-01 and the result is a thin but complete
    and honest profile. Hokkaido University publishes no public REST API, no developer portal and no API gateway: api., data.,
    opendata., developer. and status.hokudai.ac.jp do not resolve, /llms.txt, /.well-known/apis.json, /.well-known/security.txt
    and /.well-known/openid-configuration all 404, and the WordPress REST API on the English global site answers {"code":"rest_disabled"}.
    What the institution genuinely operates is scholarly identity infrastructure, and that is what this profile now records.
    Its own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider is registered in GakuNin as PI0008JP with scope hokudai.ac.jp, serves
    its metadata from a hokudai.ac.jp host under a certificate issued to O=Hokkaido University, and answers on its advertised
    SSO endpoint — the strongest institution-operated surface here and one the June 2026 profile missed entirely. Three further
    hokudai.ac.jp SAML service providers are registered alongside it. Persistent-identifier registrations were verified from
    the registries themselves rather than from university prose: Handle naming authority 2115, administered from lib.hokudai.ac.jp
    and updated 2024-06-24, and JaLC DOI prefix 10.14943, confirmed through the DOI RA resolver and the JaLC API which names
    Hokkaido University as publisher. The university is NOT a DataCite member — api.datacite.org returns zero clients and
    the library states the position explicitly — and its only Crossref membership is departmental (member 5618, Department
    of Mathematics, prefix 10.14492). The one real regression is OAI-PMH: IRDB entry 524 still harvests HUSCAP, so a base
    URL exists, but the legacy DSpace endpoint has 404ed since the December 2025 platform migration and eighteen candidate
    paths on the replacement platform were probed without success. No vendor contract was saved under this institution''s
    name, and none was found to remove — the repo carried no OpenAPI at all before this run.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://aidipigakunin2.oicte.hokudai.ac.jp/saml/saml2/idp/metadata.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://aidipigakunin2.oicte.hokudai.ac.jp/saml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://hdl.handle.net/api/handles/0.NA/2115
    status: 200
  - url: https://hdl.handle.net/api/handles/2115/301
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.japanlinkcenter.org/dois/10.14943/bfhhs.165.l129
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/https%3A%2F%2Fror.org%2F02e16g702
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/5618
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=hokkaido
    status: 200
  - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/robots.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/repo/huscap/all/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 404
  - url: https://irdb.nii.ac.jp/repositorylist?page=10
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/wp-sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/wp-json/
    status: 500
  - url: https://gakumu.academic.hokudai.ac.jp/Portal/Public/Syllabus/SearchMain.aspx
    status: 200
  - url: https://syllabus01.academic.hokudai.ac.jp/syllabi/public/syllabus/sylsearch.aspx
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/en/overview/ilcs/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/support/huscap_doi/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.open-ed.hokudai.ac.jp/%E6%9C%AA%E5%88%86%E9%A1%9E/31-3.html
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/privacy-policy/
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.hokudai.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.hokudai.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://opendata.hokudai.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://developer.hokudai.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://status.hokudai.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/.well-known/apis.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/hokudai
    status: 404
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com