Newcastle University

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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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:urban-observatory
  name: Newcastle Urban Observatory API
  description: REST API providing programmatic access to urban-sensing data from the Urban Sciences Building and data sources
    across Newcastle. Exposes entities, feeds and timeseries (temperature, occupancy, energy and environmental readings) in
    JSON and CSV, with an OpenAPI specification.
  humanURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/api/v2.0a
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Smart Cities
  - Sensors
  - IoT
  - Environment
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/openapi.json
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newcastle-urban-observatory.yaml
  - 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: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/
common:
- 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