Kyoto University (京都大学) is a national research university in Kyoto, Japan, established in 1897 and ranked #36 in the QS World University Rankings. It operates no developer portal, no API gateway, no API terms of service and no OpenAPI of its own, and this profile records that plainly. What it does run, on its own hosts and its own network, is a small set of genuinely institution-operated machine-readable surfaces: KURENAI, the Kyoto University Research Information Repository, a self-hosted DSpace 7.6 with an anonymous HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint serving 15 metadata formats including JPCOAR and junii2, holding content back to 2006; PandA, the university's Sakai Learning Support System, whose Entity Broker answers JSON on 53 registered entity prefixes and which is a live IMS LTI 1.3 platform publishing its own signing keyset alongside a working LTI 1.1 outcomes service; and its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in GakuNin, the Japanese academic federation, which participates in eduGAIN. Those surfaces sit on hosts inside 133.3.0.0/16, registered by JPNIC to Kyoto University as KUINS, or in the university's own AWS account. Five of the twelve Kin Score education-regime standards are met with live evidence — oai-pmh, shibboleth, saml, lti and orcid — which is unusual for this cohort and entirely first-party. Everything else is a human-facing service: the KULINE library catalogue, the KDB researcher database, OpenCourseWare, and the generative-AI tooling the IIMC brokers from Google and Microsoft. Student information, course registration and timetable systems are behind campus accounts and are not public APIs.
Kyoto University publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: KURENAI OAI-PMH API, KURENAI DSpace REST API, and PandA Learning Support System API (Sakai Entity Broker + IMS LTI). Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Japan, and National University.
The Kyoto University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Kyoto University’s developer surface includes documentation, GitHub presence, support, YouTube channel, authentication, and 27 more developer resources.
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OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for KURENAI, the Kyoto University Research Information Repository. Anonymous, verb-driven, and serving 15 metadata formats including jp...
The DSpace 7.6 HAL+JSON REST API of the Kyoto University Research Information Repository. The root document at /server/api advertises every endpoint as HAL links and reports dsp...
PandA is the Kyoto University Learning Support System, a Sakai deployment operated by the Institute for Information Management and Communication and published by the IIMC as the...
Kyoto University operates its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, run by the Institute for Information Management and Communication, with public machine-readable metadata...
aid: kyoto
name: Kyoto University
description: 'Kyoto University (京都大学) is a national research university in Kyoto, Japan, established in 1897 and ranked #36
in the QS World University Rankings. It operates no developer portal, no API gateway, no API terms of service and no OpenAPI
of its own, and this profile records that plainly. What it does run, on its own hosts and its own network, is a small set
of genuinely institution-operated machine-readable surfaces: KURENAI, the Kyoto University Research Information Repository,
a self-hosted DSpace 7.6 with an anonymous HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint serving 15 metadata formats including
JPCOAR and junii2, holding content back to 2006; PandA, the university''s Sakai Learning Support System, whose Entity Broker
answers JSON on 53 registered entity prefixes and which is a live IMS LTI 1.3 platform publishing its own signing keyset
alongside a working LTI 1.1 outcomes service; and its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in GakuNin,
the Japanese academic federation, which participates in eduGAIN. Those surfaces sit on hosts inside 133.3.0.0/16, registered
by JPNIC to Kyoto University as KUINS, or in the university''s own AWS account. Five of the twelve Kin Score education-regime
standards are met with live evidence — oai-pmh, shibboleth, saml, lti and orcid — which is unusual for this cohort and entirely
first-party. Everything else is a human-facing service: the KULINE library catalogue, the KDB researcher database, OpenCourseWare,
and the generative-AI tooling the IIMC brokers from Google and Microsoft. Student information, course registration and timetable
systems are behind campus accounts and are not public APIs.'
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free · No registration for the institution-operated public reads
confidence: high
source:
- authentication
- probed
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kyoto.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kyoto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Japan
- National University
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- Identity Federation
- Learning Management
- Open Access
- Research Computing
- Scholarly
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: kyoto:kyoto-oai-pmh-api
name: KURENAI OAI-PMH API
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for KURENAI, the Kyoto University Research Information Repository.
Anonymous, verb-driven, and serving 15 metadata formats including jpcoar_2.0 and jpcoar_1.0 (Japan Consortium for Open
Access Repositories), junii2 for NII IRDB harvesting, oai_dc, mods, mets, ore, didl, qdc, etdms, marc and rdf. Identify
reports protocol version 2.0, an earliest datestamp of 2006-06-05 and deletedRecord policy "transient". Records carry
ORCID, ROR, e-Rad and kakenhi identifiers.
humanURL: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
baseURL: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/server/oai/request
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: 'repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp is under Kyoto University''s own registrable domain and resolves to
133.3.249.138, in a block JPNIC registers as network KUINS-UJI, organization "Kyoto University". DSpace is open-source
software the university self-hosts, not a vendor tenancy: the REST root names the instance "Kyoto University Research
Information Repository" and the OAI-PMH admin contact is repository@mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp.'
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- Metadata
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kyoto-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
- type: Examples
url: examples/kyoto-oaiIdentify-example.json
- type: Collection
url: collections/kyoto-oai-pmh-api.postman_collection.json
- aid: kyoto:kyoto-rest-api
name: KURENAI DSpace REST API
description: The DSpace 7.6 HAL+JSON REST API of the Kyoto University Research Information Repository. The root document
at /server/api advertises every endpoint as HAL links and reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6"; community and collection
listings are anonymous reads. Item submission and administrative endpoints require a repository account and were not exercised.
humanURL: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
baseURL: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/server/api
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: 'Same host and same network as the OAI-PMH surface: Kyoto University''s own registrable domain on the
university''s JPNIC-registered KUINS network. Note that the front end returns HTTP 200 with an Angular shell for paths
that do not exist, so only /server/api and /server/oai/request carry real machine-readable content.'
tags:
- REST
- Research Repository
- DSpace
- HAL
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kyoto-rest-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
- type: Examples
url: examples/kyoto-getRoot-example.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kyoto-community-schema.json
- type: Collection
url: collections/kyoto-rest-api.postman_collection.json
- aid: kyoto:kyoto-lms-api
name: PandA Learning Support System API (Sakai Entity Broker + IMS LTI)
description: 'PandA is the Kyoto University Learning Support System, a Sakai deployment operated by the Institute for Information
Management and Communication and published by the IIMC as the university''s own education service. Its Sakai Entity Broker
at /direct self-describes 53 registered entity prefixes and answers application/json anonymously: the tool registry returns
all 96 registered tools with their required Sakai permissions, while session-scoped prefixes (site, syllabus, announcement,
assignment, calendar, content, lti) return an empty collection and the user directory is closed with a 403. Separately,
PandA is a live IMS LTI 1.3 platform — it publishes a JWKS of three RS256 signing keys at /imsblis/lti13/keyset — and
still runs the LTI 1.1 Basic Outcomes service, which answers with an IMS message_response envelope. No credential was
sent to any endpoint and no authentication was attempted.'
humanURL: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/education/lms
baseURL: https://panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp is under Kyoto University's own registrable domain and is published by the
IIMC as the university's Learning Support Service at https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/education/lms. Sakai is
open-source software the university self-deploys — there is no vendor tenancy, no vendor contact and no vendor host in
the chain; the tool registry, the LTI platform keys and the login are Kyoto University's. Discovered 2026-08-19; this
surface was entirely absent from the June 2026 profile.
tags:
- LMS
- Sakai
- LTI
- Education
- Learning Management
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kyoto-lms-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/education/lms
- type: Examples
url: examples/kyoto-panda-tool-example.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/kyoto-lti13-keyset-example.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kyoto-panda-tool-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/kyoto-panda-entity-collection-schema.json
- aid: kyoto:sso
name: Kyoto University Shibboleth Identity Provider (GakuNin)
description: 'Kyoto University operates its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, run by the Institute for Information
Management and Communication, with public machine-readable metadata at the canonical /idp/shibboleth location. The EntityDescriptor
declares entityID https://authidp1.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth, a shibmd:Scope of kyoto-u.ac.jp, and single sign-on
over SAML 2.0 HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and the legacy Shibboleth 1.0 profile. The IdP is a registered member of GakuNin,
the Japanese academic access management federation operated by the National Institute of Informatics and an eduGAIN participant;
the federation aggregate also carries Kyoto''s supercomputer service provider, entityID https://web.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/shibboleth-sp,
for the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies. University accounts are SPS-ID (faculty and staff) and ECS-ID
(students), with multi-factor authentication. Service-provider connections require committee approval: this is institutional
SSO infrastructure, not a self-service API.'
humanURL: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/account/auth-system
baseURL: https://authidp1.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Both federation entities are under kyoto-u.ac.jp. The IdP metadata is served from the university's
own AWS account (alb-authidp01-562568956.ap-northeast-1.elb.amazonaws.com) and names the IIMC as the operating organization
with contact authidp@iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Federation membership is an institution-operated fact by definition — no vendor
sits between Kyoto University and this metadata.
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- SSO
- GakuNin
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/account/auth-system
- type: Metadata
url: https://authidp1.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kyoto-authentication.yml
- type: Metadata
url: authentication/kyoto-saml-idp-metadata.xml
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://authidp1.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth
- type: Learning
url: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/education/lms
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://kuline.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/opac/opac_search/
- type: Library
url: https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
- type: ResearchPortal
url: https://kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
- type: AITooling
url: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/gen-ai
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/kyoto-u
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/site-policy
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/privacy-policy
- type: Support
url: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/contact
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kyoto-university/
- type: Twitter
url: https://x.com/KyotoU_News
- type: YouTube
url: https://www.youtube.com/c/KyotoUniversityOfficial
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kyoto-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kyoto-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/kyoto-errors.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/kyoto-scopes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kyoto-lifecycle.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/kyoto-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/kyoto-context.jsonld
- type: Rules
url: rules/kyoto-rules.yml
- type: Rules
url: rules/kyoto-jsonschema-spectral-rules.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/kyoto-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/kyoto-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/kyoto-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/kyoto-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/kyoto-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: institution_operated_surfaces_verified
detail: 'Kyoto University operates four public machine-readable surfaces that were verified live on 2026-08-19, all of them
first-party: the KURENAI DSpace 7.6 REST API, the KURENAI OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, the PandA (Sakai) Entity Broker with its
IMS LTI 1.3 keyset and LTI 1.1 outcomes service, and its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider registered in GakuNin.
The PandA LMS and the SAML identity federation were both absent from the June 2026 profile and are new here; the REST
API''s baseURL was also wrong in that profile, pointing at the OAI-PMH path. No vendor contract is credited to this institution
and none needed to be removed: the audit found six institution verdicts, zero tenant and zero vendor surfaces. kyoto-u.figshare.com
was checked and rejected as wildcard DNS, not a tenancy — a nonsense control subdomain returns the identical HTTP 202
zero-byte response. What Kyoto does not publish is equally clear: no developer portal, no API gateway, no OAuth authorization
server, no API keys, no changelog, no status page, no versioning or deprecation policy, no error reference, and no OpenAPI
of its own — every specification in this repository was written by API Evangelist from live probes and is marked as such.
Two surfaces are gated rather than absent and are recorded but not credited: the ORCID integration service ris-orcid.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp
does not answer from the public internet, and the Kyoto University Generative AI Information Portal is a Google Sites
page behind a kyoto-u.ac.jp Workspace sign-in, so no public AIPolicy pointer is claimed.'
evidence:
- url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/server/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
status: 200
note: 15 metadata formats including jpcoar_2.0 and junii2
- url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/server/api
status: 200
note: dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6"
- url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/server/api/core/communities
status: 200
- url: https://panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/direct/describe
status: 200
note: 53 registered Sakai entity prefixes
- url: https://panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/direct/tool.json
status: 200
note: 96 registered tools, fully public
- url: https://panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/imsblis/lti13/keyset
status: 200
note: LTI 1.3 platform JWKS, three RS256 keys
- url: https://panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/imsblis/service/
status: 200
note: LTI 1.1 Basic Outcomes service answering with an IMS message_response envelope
- url: https://panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/direct/user.json
status: 403
note: user directory closed to anonymous callers - gated, not dead
- url: https://authidp1.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
note: SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor, application/xml, shibmd:Scope kyoto-u.ac.jp
- url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
status: 200
note: GakuNin aggregate carries Kyoto's IdP and its KUDPC supercomputer SP
- url: https://kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
status: 200
note: researcher database live, no API
- url: https://kuline.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/opac/opac_search/
status: 200
note: library catalogue, human-facing only
- url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/.well-known/security.txt
status: 200
note: SOFT-404 - Angular shell, not a security.txt; not credited
- url: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/feed/rss_2.0/site
status: 200
note: SOFT-404 - same shell; no repository feed exists
- url: https://ris-orcid.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
status: 0
note: IIMC ORCID integration does not answer publicly - campus-scoped, gated
- url: https://sites.google.com/kyoto-u.ac.jp/ku-gen-ai-info-portal
status: 200
note: redirects to Google sign-in - the AI portal is gated, so no public AIPolicy pointer is claimed
- url: https://kyoto-u.figshare.com/
status: 202
note: wildcard, not a tenancy - notarealtenant19x7q.figshare.com returns the identical 202 with a zero-length body
- url: https://twitter.com/Kyoto_Univ_PR
status: 404
note: dead handle removed from this profile; the official account is x.com/KyotoU_News
- url: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/llms.txt
status: 404
note: no llms.txt on any Kyoto University host
probed: '2026-08-19'
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