The National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, UNAL) is the country's largest public research university, ranked #219 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UNAL operates NO central developer portal, no API gateway and no documented public API program, and no llms.txt, ai.txt or .well-known/apis.json exists on unal.edu.co. What it does operate, on its own hosts, is scholarly infrastructure: a DSpace 7.6.5 institutional repository at bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co with an anonymous HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, and a second, independent OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint on the Portal de Revistas UN (Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.10) serving 100+ journal sets. Beyond that its programmable footprint is relationships rather than engineering: six open datasets published as a named publisher scope on Colombia's national Socrata portal datos.gov.co, a self-hosted Ex Libris Aleph library catalog whose X-Services gate answers with a configuration error, Crossref membership (prefix 10.15446), a ROR identifier, and single sign-on brokered by a commercial vendor rather than a Shibboleth IdP. Colombia has no eduGAIN federation, so the identity-federation surface most universities have does not exist here.
National University of Colombia publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including OAI-PMH API, REST - Core API, REST - Discover API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Public Research University, and Colombia.
The National University of Colombia catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
National University of Colombia’s developer surface includes documentation and 15 more developer resources.
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no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's
denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to
upsert.
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because the conditional facet above carries the other
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OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface of the Repositorio Institucional UNAL, served from the university's own host. Twelve metadata prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ...
Anonymous HAL+JSON read endpoints for the repository's community/collection structure on UNAL's own host. The contract documents only what a credential-free caller can actually ...
A SECOND institution-operated OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, found in this run and not previously catalogued: the Portal de Revistas UN, UNAL's own journal publishing platform on revista...
UNAL's open data is not published on its own portal. datosabiertos.unal.edu.co is a static informational page with no catalogue and no API; the actual datasets sit on Colombia's...
UNAL is a Crossref member in its own right — member id 6146, DOI prefix 10.15446 — with a second member record for its Faculty of Sciences, member id 21512, prefix 10.36385. Thi...
UNAL is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/059yx9a68 ("National University of Colombia", UNAL), carrying GRID grid.10689.36, ISNI 0000 0004 9129...
catalogo.unal.edu.co runs Ex Libris Aleph on UNAL's own infrastructure (168.176.5.96), not on an Ex Libris cloud tenancy — the host verdict is institution, but the product is a ...
aid: national-university-of-colombia
name: National University of Colombia
description: 'The National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, UNAL) is the country''s largest public
research university, ranked #219 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UNAL operates NO central developer portal, no
API gateway and no documented public API program, and no llms.txt, ai.txt or .well-known/apis.json exists on unal.edu.co.
What it does operate, on its own hosts, is scholarly infrastructure: a DSpace 7.6.5 institutional repository at bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co
with an anonymous HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, and a second, independent OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint on the Portal
de Revistas UN (Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.10) serving 100+ journal sets. Beyond that its programmable footprint is relationships
rather than engineering: six open datasets published as a named publisher scope on Colombia''s national Socrata portal datos.gov.co,
a self-hosted Ex Libris Aleph library catalog whose X-Services gate answers with a configuration error, Crossref membership
(prefix 10.15446), a ROR identifier, and single sign-on brokered by a commercial vendor rather than a Shibboleth IdP. Colombia
has no eduGAIN federation, so the identity-federation surface most universities have does not exist here.'
type: Index
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- 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/national-university-of-colombia.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-university-of-colombia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Public Research University
- Colombia
- Latin America
- Open Data
- Institutional Repository
- Research Data
- Scholarly Publishing
- Library
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:national-university-of-colombia-oai-pmh-api
name: National University of Colombia OAI-PMH API
x-operator: institution
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface of the Repositorio Institucional UNAL, served from the university's
own host. Twelve metadata prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, dim, etdms, marc, ore, rdf, uketd_dc, xoai). The software
underneath is DSpace 7.6.5, but OAI-PMH is an open protocol and the deployment, host, sets and content are UNAL's; verified
live 2026-09-01 with verb=Identify (200).
humanURL: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/
baseURL: https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server
tags:
- OAI-PMH
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/national-university-of-colombia-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013982
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-community-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-collection-schema.json
- type: x-json-structure
url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-community-structure.json
- type: x-json-structure
url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-collection-structure.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCommunities-example.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCollections-example.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-oaiRecord-example.json
- type: x-spectral-rules
url: rules/national-university-of-colombia-rules.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
url: vocabulary/national-university-of-colombia-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
url: json-ld/national-university-of-colombia-context.jsonld
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:national-university-of-colombia-rest-core-api
name: National University of Colombia REST - Core API
x-operator: institution
description: Anonymous HAL+JSON read endpoints for the repository's community/collection structure on UNAL's own host. The
contract documents only what a credential-free caller can actually reach on THIS deployment — the generic DSpace specification
is not saved here. /server/api returns dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.5"; verified live 2026-09-01 (200).
humanURL: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/
baseURL: https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server
tags:
- REST - Core
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/national-university-of-colombia-rest-core-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013982
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-community-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-collection-schema.json
- type: x-json-structure
url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-community-structure.json
- type: x-json-structure
url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-collection-structure.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCommunities-example.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCollections-example.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-oaiRecord-example.json
- type: x-spectral-rules
url: rules/national-university-of-colombia-rules.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
url: vocabulary/national-university-of-colombia-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
url: json-ld/national-university-of-colombia-context.jsonld
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:national-university-of-colombia-rest-discover-api
name: National University of Colombia REST - Discover API
x-operator: institution
description: Faceted, anonymous search across archived objects in UNAL's institutional repository, on the university's own
host. Verified live 2026-09-01.
humanURL: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/
baseURL: https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server
tags:
- REST - Discover
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/national-university-of-colombia-rest-discover-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013982
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-community-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-collection-schema.json
- type: x-json-structure
url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-community-structure.json
- type: x-json-structure
url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-collection-structure.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCommunities-example.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCollections-example.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-oaiRecord-example.json
- type: x-spectral-rules
url: rules/national-university-of-colombia-rules.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
url: vocabulary/national-university-of-colombia-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
url: json-ld/national-university-of-colombia-context.jsonld
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:national-university-of-colombia-journals-oai-pmh-api
name: National University of Colombia Portal de Revistas UN OAI-PMH API
x-operator: institution
description: 'A SECOND institution-operated OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, found in this run and not previously catalogued: the Portal
de Revistas UN, UNAL''s own journal publishing platform on revistas.unal.edu.co, running Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.10.
repositoryName "Portal de Revistas UN", repositoryIdentifier ojs.unal.edu.co, adminEmail digital@unal.edu.co, four metadata
prefixes (oai_dc, marcxml, oai_marc, rfc1807) and at least 100 sets — one per journal plus journal:section subsets. The
OJS REST API at /index.php/index/api/v1/contexts returns 403 to anonymous callers and is deliberately not documented.
Verified live 2026-09-01.'
humanURL: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/
baseURL: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/index
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Scholarly Publishing
- Open Journal Systems
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/national-university-of-colombia-journals-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/national-university-of-colombia-conformance.yml
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:datos-gov-co-publisher
name: UNAL open data on datos.gov.co (Socrata)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'UNAL''s open data is not published on its own portal. datosabiertos.unal.edu.co is a static informational
page with no catalogue and no API; the actual datasets sit on Colombia''s national Socrata portal datos.gov.co under the
named publisher scope "Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota D.C." — six datasets as of 2026-09-01 (Microdatos Personal
Administrativo UNAL 6rvy-hipa, Microdatos Docentes de Carrera UNAL uvhe-aufw, Estudiantes Graduados UNAL 3j5e-x7c4, Estudiantes
matriculados UNAL 5pqr-ifsd, Microdatos Aspirantes y Admitidos mqpd-2jhs, Microdatos Resultados Prueba Saber Pro g6ci-7e9g).
The data is UNAL''s; the SODA contract is Socrata''s, so no vendor spec is saved. Verified live 2026-09-01: /resource/5pqr-ifsd.json
returns 200. Note the dataset UNAL itself links from datosabiertos.unal.edu.co (ps24-42h9) is dead — 404 dataset.missing.'
humanURL: https://datosabiertos.unal.edu.co/
baseURL: https://www.datos.gov.co/resource
tags:
- Open Data
- Socrata
- Tenant
- Colombia
properties:
- type: OpenData
url: https://datosabiertos.unal.edu.co/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.datos.gov.co/resource/5pqr-ifsd.json
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:crossref-membership
name: Crossref membership (DOI registrant)
x-operator: registry
description: 'UNAL is a Crossref member in its own right — member id 6146, DOI prefix 10.15446 — with a second member record
for its Faculty of Sciences, member id 21512, prefix 10.36385. This is a fact about UNAL held on Crossref''s host, machine-readable
at api.crossref.org, and it is recorded as a membership, never as a UNAL-operated API. Crossref''s own contract is not
saved here. Verified live 2026-09-01 (200). By contrast, a search of api.datacite.org for UNAL returns zero providers:
the repository mints Handles, not DataCite DOIs.'
humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/6146
tags:
- Crossref
- DOI
- Registry
- Scholarly Publishing
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.crossref.org/members/6146
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/national-university-of-colombia-conformance.yml
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:ror-identifier
name: ROR organization identifier
x-operator: registry
description: UNAL is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/059yx9a68 ("National University
of Colombia", UNAL), carrying GRID grid.10689.36, ISNI 0000 0004 9129 0751, Wikidata Q1150419 and three Crossref Funder
IDs. A registry membership, recorded as the institutional fact it is; the ROR API contract belongs to ROR. Verified live
2026-09-01 (200).
humanURL: https://ror.org/059yx9a68
baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/059yx9a68
tags:
- ROR
- Registry
- Persistent Identifiers
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://ror.org/059yx9a68
- aid: national-university-of-colombia:library-catalog-aleph
name: SINAB library catalog (self-hosted Ex Libris Aleph)
x-operator: institution
description: catalogo.unal.edu.co runs Ex Libris Aleph on UNAL's own infrastructure (168.176.5.96), not on an Ex Libris
cloud tenancy — the host verdict is institution, but the product is a vendor's and no Aleph contract is saved. The Aleph
X-Services gateway is reachable and returns well-formed XML, but every anonymous query fails with "SRU gate configuration
file is missing", so there is no usable public search API. Discovery for SINAB lives at sinab.unal.edu.co, which now serves
a Ghost site ("Manglar"). Probed 2026-09-01.
humanURL: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/
baseURL: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/X
tags:
- Library
- Aleph
- Ex Libris
- Discovery
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/
common:
- type: Website
url: https://unal.edu.co/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/unal
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universidad-nacional-de-colombia/
- type: OpenData
url: https://datosabiertos.unal.edu.co/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/
- type: ScholarlyPublishing
url: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://dninfoa.unal.edu.co/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013982
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/national-university-of-colombia-conformance.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/national-university-of-colombia-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/national-university-of-colombia-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/national-university-of-colombia-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/national-university-of-colombia-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/national-university-of-colombia-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'UNAL operates no central developer portal, no API gateway, no llms.txt, no ai.txt and no .well-known/apis.json,
and this profile says so rather than padding around it. What it does operate on its own hosts was probed anonymously and
confirmed: the DSpace 7.6.5 institutional repository REST root and its OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint on bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co,
and a SECOND OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint found in this run on revistas.unal.edu.co (Portal de Revistas UN, OJS 3.4.0.10, 100+
journal sets) which was not previously catalogued. Everything else in UNAL''s footprint is a relationship, and each is
recorded as one rather than as UNAL''s engineering: six datasets under the named publisher scope "Universidad Nacional
de Colombia, Bogota D.C." on Colombia''s national Socrata portal datos.gov.co (x-operator tenant, no Socrata contract
saved); Crossref membership 6146 / prefix 10.15446 and ROR 059yx9a68 (x-operator registry, memberships recorded, registry
contracts not saved); and a self-hosted Ex Libris Aleph catalog at catalogo.unal.edu.co whose X-Services gate is reachable
but answers every anonymous query with "SRU gate configuration file is missing", so it is not a usable API. Two negatives
are findings, not gaps: UNAL has NO Shibboleth/SAML identity federation surface — login.unal.edu.co redirects to a commercial
Google-identity broker (smartkey.xertica.com) and eduGAIN lists no Colombian federation at all — and it is NOT a DataCite
provider, minting Handles rather than DataCite DOIs. unal.edu.co itself is flaky from outside Colombia: it returns 200
over IPv4 without ALPN and times out on the default TLS/ALPN path, which is an edge-behaviour finding about their AWS
load balancer, not a dead host.'
evidence:
- url: https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server/api/integration/externalsources
status: 200
- url: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/index/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/index/api/v1/contexts
status: 403
- url: https://www.datos.gov.co/resource/5pqr-ifsd.json
status: 200
- url: https://www.datos.gov.co/resource/ps24-42h9.json
status: 404
- url: https://api.crossref.org/members/6146
status: 200
- url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/059yx9a68
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=Universidad+Nacional+de+Colombia
status: 200
- url: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/X?op=find&code=WRD&request=colombia&base=UNAL01
status: 200
- url: https://login.unal.edu.co/
status: 200
- url: https://datosabiertos.unal.edu.co/
status: 200
- url: https://dninfoa.unal.edu.co/
status: 200
- url: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/
status: 200
- url: https://github.com/unal
status: 200
- url: https://unal.edu.co/
status: 200
- url: https://unal.edu.co/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://unal.edu.co/.well-known/apis.json
status: 404
- url: https://unal.edu.co/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013982
status: 200
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universidad-nacional-de-colombia/
status: 999
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