# Kyoto University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kyoto/  
**Website:** https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 43.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+10.1 from 32.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 59.9 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

Free · No registration for the institution-operated public reads — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **KURENAI OAI-PMH API** — 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...
- **KURENAI DSpace REST API** — 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 Learning Support System API (Sakai Entity Broker + IMS LTI)** — 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 Shibboleth Identity Provider (GakuNin)** — 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...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Kyoto Agentic Access** — 21 operations

## Security (2)

- **Kyoto Authentication** — none/saml/session · 6 schemes
- **Kyoto Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Kyoto Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Japan, National University, Research Repository, Research Data, Identity Federation, Learning Management, Open Access, Research Computing, Scholarly

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