Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

aid: iit-kanpur
name: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
description: 'The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), founded in 1959 and located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh,
  is one of India''s premier engineering and research institutions, ranked #263 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
  It does not operate a unified central developer portal; its verifiable public programmatic footprint centers on the P.K.
  Kelkar (PKK) Library, whose Koha integrated library system exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint and a
  Koha ILS-DI service. Administrative and academic systems such as the Pingala ERP/SIS are login-gated with no documented
  public API, and there is no single official institutional GitHub organization, though numerous student clubs and academic
  departments maintain their own GitHub orgs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-kanpur/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- India
- Open Access
- Library
- Metadata
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: iit-kanpur:library-oai-pmh
  name: PKK Library OAI-PMH
  description: The P.K. Kelkar Library runs a Koha integrated library system that exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting
    interface over its bibliographic catalogue. The Identify verb returns a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 response naming the repository
    "PKK Library" with an earliest datestamp of 2016, and ListMetadataFormats confirms the oai_dc metadata prefix, verifying
    a live open-metadata harvesting endpoint.
  humanURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Catalogue
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
- aid: iit-kanpur:library-ils-di
  name: PKK Library Koha ILS-DI
  description: The P.K. Kelkar Library Koha catalogue exposes the ILS-DI (Integrated Library System - Discovery Interface)
    service, a standard Koha web service for discovery-layer integrations covering bibliographic, holdings, patron, and circulation
    operations. The ILS-DI landing page resolves live and identifies the underlying Koha 23.11 installation.
  humanURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl
  baseURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl
  tags:
  - Library
  - ILS-DI
  - Koha
  - Discovery
  - Catalogue
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iit-kanpur-library-rest.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/iit-kanpur-item-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/iit-kanpur-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/iit-kanpur-context.jsonld
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.iitk.ac.in/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/iit-kanpur-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/iit-kanpur-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/iit-kanpur-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com