Newcastle University

Newcastle University is a public research university in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ranked #129 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint centers on research and open-data initiatives rather than a single central developer portal. Confirmed public APIs include the Newcastle Urban Observatory REST API (one of the UK's largest open urban-sensing platforms, with an OpenAPI specification), the Digitised Objects Repository Search and Data API, and the ECPPEC electoral history research API. The university also operates a verified GitHub organization and a Figshare-powered research data repository (data.ncl), and runs EPrints-based institutional and thesis repositories that expose OAI-PMH.

Newcastle University publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Entity API, Feed API, Summary API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, United Kingdom, and Open Data.

The Newcastle University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Newcastle University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 9 more developer resources.

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35.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

8 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited KingdomOpen DataResearch DataSmart CitiesDigital Library

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Composite quality — 35.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Newcastle Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: newcastle
name: Newcastle University
description: 'Newcastle University is a public research university in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ranked #129 in
  the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint centers on research and open-data initiatives
  rather than a single central developer portal. Confirmed public APIs include the Newcastle Urban Observatory REST API (one
  of the UK''s largest open urban-sensing platforms, with an OpenAPI specification), the Digitised Objects Repository Search
  and Data API, and the ECPPEC electoral history research API. The university also operates a verified GitHub organization
  and a Figshare-powered research data repository (data.ncl), and runs EPrints-based institutional and thesis repositories
  that expose OAI-PMH.'
type: Index
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: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/newcastle.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newcastle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- United Kingdom
- Open Data
- Research Data
- Smart Cities
- Digital Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: newcastle:digitised-objects
  name: Digitised Objects Repository Search and Data API
  description: Search and Data API for Newcastle University's Digitised Objects Repository, providing programmatic access
    to metadata and digitised materials from the university's collections.
  humanURL: https://api-dor.ncl.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Digital Library
  - Collections
  - Cultural Heritage
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dor.ncl.ac.uk/
- aid: newcastle:ecppec
  name: ECPPEC Electoral Data API
  description: API for the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) research project, providing
    access to historical British electoral datasets including pollbook records and election directory data.
  humanURL: https://ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/api/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - History
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/api/
- aid: newcastle:data-ncl
  name: data.ncl Research Data Repository (Figshare)
  description: Newcastle University's institutional research data repository, powered by Figshare, for documenting, archiving
    and publishing datasets and code. Programmatic access is available through the underlying Figshare API.
  humanURL: https://data.ncl.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/academics-and-researchers/lrs/rdm/sharing/datancl/
  - type: Website
    url: https://data.ncl.ac.uk/
- aid: newcastle:eprints
  name: EPrints Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH)
  description: Newcastle University's EPrints-based repositories (institutional outputs at eprints.ncl.ac.uk and electronic
    theses at theses.ncl.ac.uk) expose metadata harvesting via the standard EPrints OAI-PMH interface.
  humanURL: https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Outputs
  - Theses
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/
  - type: Website
    url: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/
- aid: newcastle:newcastle-entity-api
  name: Newcastle University Entity API
  description: An entity ordinarily describes a spatial location, such as a room in a building, or a pole in the street. In
    some circumstances, an entity may be a mobile piece of equipment, such as those used for validation, in which case the
    location will be provided as a timeseries.
  humanURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/api/v2.0a
  tags:
  - Entity
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newcastle-entity-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/newcastle-entity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/newcastle-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/newcastle-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/newcastle-context.jsonld
  - type: Website
    url: https://urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
- aid: newcastle:newcastle-feed-api
  name: Newcastle University Feed API
  description: A feed is a representation of a measurement or parametrisation, usually a metric, for example the observed
    temperature.
  humanURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/api/v2.0a
  tags:
  - Feed
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newcastle-feed-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/newcastle-entity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/newcastle-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/newcastle-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/newcastle-context.jsonld
  - type: Website
    url: https://urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
- aid: newcastle:newcastle-summary-api
  name: Newcastle University Summary API
  description: The Summary API from Newcastle University — 1 operation(s) for summary.
  humanURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/api/v2.0a
  tags:
  - Summary
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newcastle-summary-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/newcastle-entity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/newcastle-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/newcastle-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/newcastle-context.jsonld
  - type: Website
    url: https://urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
- aid: newcastle:newcastle-timeseries-api
  name: Newcastle University Timeseries API
  description: There may be more than one timeseries associated with a feed, provided for convenience. Ordinarily there will
    be a plain timeseries, representing raw data from the device. In some cases, there may then be additional timeseries representing
    converted values (e.g. scaled), corrected, or aggregated temporally.
  humanURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/api/v2.0a
  tags:
  - Timeseries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newcastle-timeseries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/newcastle-entity-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/newcastle-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/newcastle-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/newcastle-context.jsonld
  - type: Website
    url: https://urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/newcastle-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/newcastle-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/newcastleuniversity
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/newcastle-university
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/UniofNewcastle
- type: Plans
  url: plans/newcastle-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/newcastle-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/newcastle-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com