Nagoya University

aid: nagoya
name: Nagoya University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Nagoya University (名古屋大学) is a national research university in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, founded 1871, a member
  of Japan''s Designated National University group and, since 2020, part of the Tokai National Higher Education and Research
  System (THERS) alongside Gifu University. It runs no developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI and issues no API keys, and
  this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own nagoya-u.ac.jp hosts, are two genuinely institution-run
  machine surfaces: a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider (https://shib.nagoya-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth) registered in GakuNin,
  Japan''s academic access management federation, since 2014; and the ERG Science Center at the Institute for Space-Earth
  Environmental Research, which serves the Arase (ERG) satellite and ground-based observation data archive as an open, machine-traversable
  HTTPS tree that the pySPEDAS and SPEDAS analysis clients read directly. Its institutional repository, NAGOYA Repository,
  is a TENANT deployment on the National Institute of Informatics'' WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud platform: the content, the metadata
  and the library administrators are Nagoya''s, but the OAI-PMH endpoint and its contract are NII''s and are not credited
  here. The university is registered in ROR (04chrp450) but is a member of neither DataCite nor Crossref — Japanese repositories
  mint DOIs through JaLC. Student records, course registration, the NU Portal and campus IT all sit behind THERS/GakuNin authentication
  and are not publicly documented developer APIs. Several relevant surfaces, including the university''s own GakuNin service
  documentation, exist only in Japanese.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/nagoya.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nagoya/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Japan
- Designated National University
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- Research Data
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: nagoya:identity-federation
  name: Nagoya University Shibboleth Identity Provider (GakuNin)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider on the university''s own host, published as machine-readable
    metadata in the GakuNin (学術認証フェデレーション) aggregate. EntityDescriptor ID PI0136JP, entityID https://shib.nagoya-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth,
    shibmd:Scope nagoya-u.ac.jp, mdui:DisplayName "Nagoya University" / "名古屋大学", keywords category:location:chubu and category:organizationType:university,
    registered with registrationAuthority https://www.gakunin.jp on 2014-04-30. It carries both IDPSSODescriptor and AttributeAuthorityDescriptor
    roles and three SingleSignOnService endpoints — /idp/profile/Shibboleth/SSO, /idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO and /idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO.
    The signing certificate is issued by NII Open Domain CA - G8 RSA to CN=shib.nagoya-u.ac.jp, O=Nagoya University. Verified
    2026-09-01 by fetching the 5.65 MB GakuNin aggregate and parsing all 650 EntityDescriptors: exactly one is Nagoya''s,
    and no Nagoya-operated service providers are registered. Negative finding worth recording: the eduGAIN technical entity
    list carries 173 GakuNin entities and none of them is Nagoya''s, so this IdP is federated nationally but not exported
    to eduGAIN. This is a real, machine-readable, institution-run surface and it is the class of university API that is almost
    never catalogued.'
  humanURL: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ja/services/gakunin/
  baseURL: https://shib.nagoya-u.ac.jp/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  - GakuNin
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ja/services/gakunin/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nagoya-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/nagoya-conformance.yml
- aid: nagoya:ergsc-data-archive
  name: ERG Science Center data archive (ISEE, Nagoya University)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Open, machine-traversable HTTPS data archive operated by the ERG Science Center at Nagoya University''s Institute
    for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE, formerly STEL). It serves the Arase (ERG) satellite instrument data — att,
    hep, lepe, lepi, mepe, mepi, mgf, orb, pwe and xep — alongside ground-based observation data, guest datasets and the Conjunction
    Event Finder archive, in CDF. There is no OpenAPI and no REST contract: the interface is an Apache directory index over
    a stable path grammar, and it is consumed programmatically by the SPEDAS (IDL) and pySPEDAS (Python) analysis frameworks
    through the ERG plug-in, which resolves file paths against this host. The Conjunction Event Finder is a set of CGI services
    on the same host (/cef/geotail.cgi, /cef/cluster.cgi, /cef/akebono.cgi, /cef/reimei.cgi, /cef/tc1.cgi, /cef/tc2.cgi),
    moved to Nagoya from JAXA/ISAS DARTS in 2013. Verified live 2026-09-01: GET /data/ergsc/ returns 200 with a real index
    listing cef/, ground/, guest/ and satellite/, and GET /data/ergsc/satellite/erg/ returns 200 listing the ten instrument
    directories. No spec is generated for it — a directory tree is not a contract, and inventing one would be fabrication.'
  humanURL: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Space Physics
  - CDF
  - Arase
  - SPEDAS
  - Satellite
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data_info/howto.shtml.en
  - type: Website
    url: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas
- aid: nagoya:repo-oai
  name: NAGOYA Repository OAI-PMH (NII WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the NAGOYA Repository, Nagoya University''s institutional repository.
    Verified live 2026-09-01 — verb=Identify returns 200 text/xml with repositoryName "NAGOYA Repository", baseURL https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai,
    protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z, deletedRecord transient, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
    and adminEmail ir-admin@nul.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Nagoya University Library). verb=ListMetadataFormats returns seven prefixes
    — jpcoar_1.0, jpcoar, jpcoar_2.0, oai_dc, ddi, jpcoar_v1 and lom — i.e. the JPCOAR schema plus Dublin Core, DDI and LOM.
    verb=ListSets returns 100 setSpecs per page mapping the university''s own organisational units and journal series. nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp
    is an institution-specific subdomain on the National Institute of Informatics'' WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud platform: the records,
    the metadata and the library staff are Nagoya''s; the software, the host and the contract are NII''s. Recorded here as
    a tenant relationship — a real institutional fact — rather than credited to Nagoya as its own engineering. No WEKO3 contract
    is saved under this institution, because it is a product contract identical across every JAIRO Cloud repository in Japan.
    Operational note: the endpoint returns 406 to a browser User-Agent and 200 to a default client.'
  humanURL: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - JPCOAR
  - WEKO
  - Open Access
  - Tenant
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/about
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/nagoya-conformance.yml
- aid: nagoya:ror-registration
  name: ROR registration — Nagoya University
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'Nagoya University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as ROR ID https://ror.org/04chrp450,
    status active, established 1871, names "Nagoya University" / "名古屋大学" / "Nagoya Daigaku", website http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/,
    with cross-registered external identifiers GRID grid.27476.30, ISNI 0000 0001 0943 978X, Wikidata Q1191132 and Crossref
    Funder ID 501100004823. This is a membership in an identifier registry the institution is REGISTERED IN, not a contract
    it operates: the ROR API is ROR''s and is not saved here. The entry is recorded because being a registered research organisation
    is a fact about Nagoya University. Verified 2026-09-01 against https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/04chrp450 (200).'
  humanURL: https://ror.org/04chrp450
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/04chrp450
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - ROR
  - Research
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Registration
    url: https://ror.org/04chrp450
- aid: nagoya:gakunin-federation
  name: GakuNin academic access management federation membership
  x-operator: federation
  description: Nagoya University is a participating institution in GakuNin (学術認証フェデレーション), the Japanese national academic
    access management federation operated by the National Institute of Informatics, and states so on its own site. Through
    it the university's THERS account authenticates against federated services including GakuNin mAP (cg.gakunin.jp), meatmail,
    GakuNin RDM (rdm.nii.ac.jp), GakuNin LMS (lms.nii.ac.jp), mdx, Q-leap LMS, Nature Research, SpringerLink, Atypon and Westlaw.
    A federation is shared by definition and the IdP behind it is the institution's, so this membership is recorded rather
    than treated as a shared-host misattribution. The federation's signed metadata aggregate is the machine-readable artifact;
    it belongs to GakuNin and is not saved here. Note that the university's own documentation of this service exists only
    on the Japanese surface — the English equivalent returns 404.
  humanURL: https://www.gakunin.jp/en/
  baseURL: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - GakuNin
  - Japan
  - Membership
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ja/services/gakunin/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/nagoya-conformance.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ja/services/gakunin/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ja/sc/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/about-nu/declaration/ai/index.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/services/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/services/nuid/
- type: Support
  url: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/site/contact/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/site/privacy/
- type: Blog
  url: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/research/activities/news/index.html
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/nagoya-university/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nagoya-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nagoya-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/nagoya-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/nagoya-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/nagoya-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/nagoya-context.jsonld
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: no_public_api
  detail: 'Every reachable surface was probed on 2026-09-01 and two institution-operated machine surfaces were found and verified
    — a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider published in the GakuNin federation aggregate, and the ERG Science Center''s
    open Arase/ground-based data archive at ISEE — plus three education-regime domain standards evidenced from public endpoints
    (shibboleth, saml, oai-pmh). The profile stays thin because Nagoya University operates no public API: no developer portal,
    no OpenAPI, no API keys, no OAuth, and no llms.txt or security.txt. api., data., opendata. and developer.nagoya-u.ac.jp
    do not resolve. The NAGOYA Repository OAI-PMH endpoint is recorded as a TENANT relationship on NII''s WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud
    rather than as Nagoya''s contract, and no WEKO3 spec has been generated to stand in for one — that product contract is
    identical across every JAIRO Cloud repository in Japan and belongs in NII''s own repo. The ERG archive is left uncontracted
    for the same no-fabrication reason: it is an Apache directory tree consumed by SPEDAS/pySPEDAS, not a REST API. github.com/NagoyaUniversity
    exists but is not the institution — it is a 2017 shell with one forked repo and no name, description or verification,
    and is not credited. Student records, course registration and the NU Portal are behind THERS/GakuNin SSO. Two access notes:
    the OAI-PMH endpoint 406s a browser User-Agent and 200s a default client, and the university''s own GakuNin documentation
    exists only in Japanese (the English path 404s).'
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://shib.nagoya-u.ac.jp/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
    status: 500
  - url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ja/services/gakunin/
    status: 200
  - url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/services/gakunin/
    status: 404
  - url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_entities&format=json
    status: 200
  - url: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/
    status: 200
  - url: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/ergsc/satellite/erg/
    status: 200
  - url: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/data/
    status: 403
  - url: https://ergsc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/erg_socware/bleeding_edge/
    status: 401
  - url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/04chrp450
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=nagoya
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=nagoya&rows=10
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/nagoya-u
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/NagoyaUniversity
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/.well-known/apis.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://opendata.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://developer.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
    status: 0
  - url: https://profs.provost.nagoya-u.ac.jp/search?m=home&l=en
    status: 200
  - url: https://seeds-search.aip.nagoya-u.ac.jp/?lang=en
    status: 200
  - url: https://ocw.nagoya-u.jp/
    status: 200
  - url: https://portal.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
    status: 200
  - url: https://opac.nul.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/about-nu/declaration/ai/index.html
    status: 200
  - url: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/site/privacy/
    status: 200
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com