# Hokkaido University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hokkaido/  
**Website:** https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Hokkaido University (北海道大学) is a national research university in Sapporo, Japan, founded in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College and ranked #173 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates 12 undergraduate schools, 21 graduate schools, and numerous research institutes. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is limited and centered on scholarly infrastructure: the HUSCAP institutional repository (Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers) and public XML sitemaps. The university does not publish a dedicated developer portal or documented public REST API; most institutional systems (ELMS LMS, syllabus search, researcher directory) are web UIs without documented programmatic access.

## Kin Score — 17.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| 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 (1)

- **HUSCAP XML Sitemaps** — Publicly crawlable XML sitemap index for the HUSCAP repository, providing a machine-readable list of repository item URLs. This is an open, robots.txt- permitted endpoint usable...

## Security (1)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Hokkaido Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Japan

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