# Newcastle University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/newcastle/  
**Website:** https://www.ncl.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

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.

## Kin Score — 31.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 61.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 36.2 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **Digitised Objects Repository Search and Data API** — Search and Data API for Newcastle University's Digitised Objects Repository, providing programmatic access to metadata and digitised materials from the university's collections.
- **ECPPEC Electoral Data API** — API for the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) research project, providing access to historical British electoral datasets including pollb...
- **data.ncl Research Data Repository (Figshare)** — Newcastle University's institutional research data repository, powered by Figshare, for documenting, archiving and publishing datasets and code. Programmatic access is available...
- **EPrints Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH)** — 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 stand...
- **Newcastle University Entity API** — 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, su...
- **Newcastle University Feed API** — A feed is a representation of a measurement or parametrisation, usually a metric, for example the observed temperature.
- **Newcastle University Summary API** — The Summary API from Newcastle University — 1 operation(s) for summary.
- **Newcastle University Timeseries API** — 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 so...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Newcastle Agentic Access** — 6 operations

## Security (1)

- **Newcastle Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Newcastle Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, United Kingdom, Open Data, Research Data, Smart Cities, Digital Library

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