# island.is (Digital Iceland)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/island-is/  
**Website:** https://island.is  
**APIs profiled:** 2

island.is (Stafrænt Ísland / Digital Iceland) is Iceland's national digital-services and government API platform, operated by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs / Digital Iceland. It provides a GraphQL gateway at api.island.is (authentication-gated) that fronts internal REST microservices, with business/government-to-government REST services described using OpenAPI 3.0 and registered in the X-Road "Straumurinn" API Catalogue. The developer handbook is published at docs.devland.is. Iceland's former CKAN open-data portal (opingogn.is) has been decommissioned and now redirects to island.is.

## Kin Score — 7.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (2)

- **island.is GraphQL Gateway** — Single GraphQL gateway at api.island.is wrapping internal REST microservices that power island.is applications. The gateway is authentication-gated (island.is identity server / ...
- **X-Road (Straumurinn) API Catalogue** — Iceland's X-Road data-exchange layer (Straumurinn). Government-to-government REST services that publish OpenAPI 3.0 descriptions are auto-imported into the X-Road API Catalogue,...

## Security (1)

- **Island Is Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Digital Government, GraphQL, OpenAPI, X-Road, API Platform, Government Data, National Government, Iceland, Europe

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