Politecnico di Milano

aid: politecnico-di-milano
name: Politecnico di Milano
x-type: university
x-category: Technical University
description: 'Politecnico di Milano is Italy''s largest technical university — engineering, architecture and design — and
  a public research institution in Milan, ROR 01nffqt88. Like almost every university it is a federation of buyers rather
  than an API producer: there is no developer portal, no public API key, no status page and no changelog anywhere on polimi.it.
  What it does operate itself is real and was verified live on 2026-09-01. An open data portal at www.opendata.polimi.it publishes
  a DCAT-AP_IT catalogue in RDF Turtle describing 25 datasets, each with a CSV and a JSON distribution at a stable unauthenticated
  URL — all 25 returned 200 and 38,255 rows on probe, covering the course catalogue, enrolments, graduates, mobility, internships,
  grade distributions and research output under CC BY 4.0. Two separate OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoints are served from its own hosts:
  Re.Public@Polimi for research products and POLITESI for theses, the latter also harvestable in the DataCite kernel-4 metadata
  schema. It runs its own Shibboleth identity provider, shibidp.polimi.it, whose SAML 2.0 metadata is public and whose entityID
  is registered in the Italian IDEM GARR federation. Against that, the surfaces it does NOT own are recorded as such: the
  authenticated IRIS REST API on its repository host is CINECA''s product contract, not the university''s, and api.polimi.it
  is a live Kong gateway with no publicly routable endpoint behind it. This profile saves contracts only for the surfaces
  the institution itself operates.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · open, unauthenticated
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Producing
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/politecnico-di-milano.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/politecnico-di-milano/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Technical University
- Research
- Open Data
- Research Repository
- Course Catalog
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Shibboleth
- DCAT
- Italy
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:open-data
  name: Politecnico di Milano Open Data
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host www.opendata.polimi.it is under the institution's own registrable domain; the DCAT catalogue names
    https://www.polimi.it as publisher, creator and rights holder.
  description: The university's own open data portal. It is not CKAN, Socrata or a data.json endpoint — all three 404 — but
    a DCAT-AP_IT catalogue serialised as RDF Turtle at /opendata_polimi.ttl, declaring 25 datasets each with a CSV and a JSON
    distribution at a stable, unauthenticated URL. All 25 JSON distributions were fetched successfully on 2026-09-01, returning
    38,255 rows in total. Every distribution is CC BY 4.0. JSON bodies are UTF-8 with a byte-order mark and wrap rows in a
    single `recordset` array. An earlier profile of this institution recorded "no documented programmatic API" here; that
    was a probe-vocabulary failure, not an absence.
  humanURL: https://www.opendata.polimi.it/
  baseURL: https://www.opendata.polimi.it
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - DCAT
  - Datasets
  - Course Catalog
  - Research
  - Statistics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.opendata.polimi.it/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/politecnico-di-milano-opendata-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/politecnico-di-milano-opendata-recordset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/politecnico-di-milano-course-catalog-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/politecnico-di-milano-opendata-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/politecnico-di-milano-opendata-catalog.jsonld
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/politecnico-di-milano-examples.yml
  - type: API
    url: https://www.opendata.polimi.it/opendata_polimi.ttl
  - type: License
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:iris-oai-pmh
  name: Re.Public@Polimi OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host re.public.polimi.it is under the institution's own registrable domain; Identify returns adminEmail
    catalogoricerca@notifiche.polimi.it and repositoryIdentifier re.public.polimi.it.
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for IRIS Re.Public@Polimi, the institutional research product catalogue. Live
    Identify returns repositoryName "IRIS - POLIMI - prod", earliest datestamp 2015-06-10, deletedRecord transient, and the
    identifier scheme oai:re.public.polimi.it:11311/<id>. ListMetadataFormats returns oai_dc, didl and ore. The repository
    platform underneath is CINECA's IRIS, but OAI-PMH is an OpenArchives standard served from the institution's own host over
    its own metadata with its own admin contact — an institution-operated surface, unlike the IRIS REST API recorded separately
    below.
  humanURL: https://re.public.polimi.it/
  baseURL: https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Dublin Core
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://re.public.polimi.it/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/politecnico-di-milano-iris-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: API
    url: https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/politecnico-di-milano-errors.yml
  - type: Specification
    url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:politesi-oai-pmh
  name: POLITESI OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host www.politesi.polimi.it is under the institution's own registrable domain; Identify returns adminEmail
    deposito-tesilaurea@notifiche.polimi.it and repositoryIdentifier www.politesi.polimi.it.
  description: 'A second, separate OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint — the POLITESI archive of Politecnico di Milano theses and dissertations,
    handle prefix 10589, earliest datestamp 2010-08-24. It offers a wider metadata set than Re.Public@Polimi: ListMetadataFormats
    returns oai_dc, didl, ore AND datacite, and a live ListRecords in the datacite prefix returns records in the DataCite
    Metadata Schema kernel-4.4. This endpoint was not recorded in any previous profile of the institution.'
  humanURL: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/
  baseURL: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Theses
  - DataCite
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/politecnico-di-milano-politesi-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: API
    url: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/politecnico-di-milano-conformance.yml
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:shibboleth-idp
  name: Politecnico di Milano Shibboleth Identity Provider
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host shibidp.polimi.it is under the institution's own registrable domain; the EntityDescriptor carries
    shibmd:Scope polimi.it and mdui:DisplayName "Politecnico di Milano".
  description: The university's own Shibboleth identity provider, publishing its SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
    over unauthenticated HTTPS. The IDPSSODescriptor advertises Shibboleth 1.0, SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0 protocol support, scope
    polimi.it, bilingual mdui:UIInfo, and signing and encryption certificates valid to 2040. This is an authentication surface,
    not a data API — and it is one of the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surfaces a university has.
  humanURL: https://aunicalogin.polimi.it/aunicalogin/idem.jsp?lang=EN
  baseURL: https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  - Federation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aunicalogin.polimi.it/aunicalogin/idem.jsp?lang=EN
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/politecnico-di-milano-shibboleth-idp-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/politecnico-di-milano-authentication.yml
  - type: API
    url: https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:idem-garr-federation
  name: IDEM GARR Identity Federation membership
  x-operator: federation
  x-operator-evidence: A grep of the IDEM GARR aggregate on 2026-09-01 returns four polimi.it entityIDs, including the institution's
    own IdP https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth.
  description: Politecnico di Milano's membership of IDEM, the Italian academic identity federation run by GARR. The federation
    aggregate at md.idem.garr.it carries the university's own IdP entity plus three of its service providers — https://captive.wifi.polimi.it/shibboleth,
    https://collaborative.polimi.it and https://www.pok.polimi.it. The metadata aggregate is GARR's contract and is not saved
    here; the membership is a fact about the institution and is recorded as one. Federations are shared by definition — that
    sharing is not misattribution.
  humanURL: https://www.idem.garr.it/
  baseURL: https://md.idem.garr.it/metadata/idem-metadata-sha256.xml
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - IDEM
  - GARR
  - eduGAIN
  - SAML
  - Membership
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.idem.garr.it/
  - type: API
    url: https://md.idem.garr.it/metadata/idem-metadata-sha256.xml
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:ror-registration
  name: ROR registration
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-evidence: api.ror.org/v2/organizations/01nffqt88 returns 200 for Politecnico di Milano with link https://polimi.it.
  description: The institution's entry in the Research Organization Registry, ROR ID 01nffqt88, carrying its canonical name
    in Italian, English and French and its own domain. ROR's API is a registry the institution is registered IN, not a contract
    it operates — the membership is recorded, the registry's own contract is not saved.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/01nffqt88
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/01nffqt88
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - ROR
  - Membership
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ror.org/01nffqt88
  - type: API
    url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/01nffqt88
- aid: politecnico-di-milano:iris-rest
  name: IRIS REST API (CINECA platform tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: Runs on the institution's host re.public.polimi.it but is the REST interface of CINECA's IRIS (DSpace-CRIS)
    product; returns 401 with WWW-Authenticate Basic realm="Spring Security Application".
  description: Politecnico di Milano's tenancy of CINECA's IRIS research information platform. The data is the university's;
    the contract is the vendor's, and it is not saved in this repository. Recorded here because the relationship is a real
    institutional fact — the university's research catalogue runs on IRIS — and deleting the relationship to avoid crediting
    the vendor's engineering would destroy a true surface. The endpoint is authenticated and has no public registration path.
  humanURL: https://re.public.polimi.it/
  baseURL: https://re.public.polimi.it/rest/api
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - IRIS
  - CINECA
  - Tenant
  - Authenticated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://re.public.polimi.it/
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/politecnico-di-milano-errors.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.polimi.it/en/
- type: About
  url: https://www.polimi.it/en/the-politecnico
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.polimi.it/en/the-politecnico/news
- type: Support
  url: https://www.polimi.it/en/the-politecnico/contacts
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.polimi.it/en/the-politecnico/communication/privacy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/polimi/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.opendata.polimi.it/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.opendata.polimi.it/dataset/course_catalog/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://re.public.polimi.it/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.normativa.polimi.it/fileadmin/user_upload/regolamenti/privacy_e_sicurezza/LG_IA_PTA_v1.0def.pdf
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.normativa.polimi.it/privacy-e-sicurezza
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/politecnico-di-milano-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/politecnico-di-milano-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/politecnico-di-milano-opendata-vocabulary.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/politecnico-di-milano-errors.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/politecnico-di-milano-lifecycle.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/politecnico-di-milano-scopes.yml
- type: Rules
  url: rules/politecnico-di-milano-spectral-ruleset.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/politecnico-di-milano-examples.yml
- type: Provenance
  url: provenance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/politecnico-di-milano-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/politecnico-di-milano-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/politecnico-di-milano-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/politecnico-di-milano-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Four institution-operated surfaces were found, probed and described: a DCAT-AP_IT open data portal with 25 live
    datasets, two separate OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoints (Re.Public@Polimi and POLITESI), and a Shibboleth IdP publishing SAML 2.0
    metadata. A federation membership (IDEM GARR) and a registry registration (ROR) were evidenced and recorded without saving
    either party''s contract. One tenant relationship (CINECA IRIS REST) was recorded without saving the vendor''s contract.
    Negative findings that bound the profile: api.polimi.it is a live Kong 3.6.1 gateway on the institution''s domain but
    returns "no Route matched" on every path probed, so no public API sits behind it; CKAN, Socrata and data.json probes of
    the open data portal all 404, which is what led an earlier profile to record no programmatic surface at all; github.com/POLIMI
    is an unrelated individual''s organisation from 2013 holding Coursera exercises and is NOT the university, so no GitHubOrganization
    pointer is claimed; no DataCite registrant and no Crossref member matching this institution exist; no llms.txt, security.txt,
    status page, changelog or developer portal exists on polimi.it; trasparenza.polimi.it publishes the D.Lgs 33/2013 data
    catalogue as HTML only. Searching in Italian mattered — the AI governance documents and the open data catalogue are published
    only on Italian-language surfaces.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.opendata.polimi.it/opendata_polimi.ttl
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.opendata.polimi.it/distribution/course_catalog/json/course_catalog.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://re.public.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=datacite
    status: 200
  - url: https://shibidp.polimi.it/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://md.idem.garr.it/metadata/idem-metadata-sha256.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/01nffqt88
    status: 200
  - url: https://re.public.polimi.it/rest/api
    status: 401
  - url: https://api.polimi.it/
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.polimi.it/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://opendata.polimi.it/api/3/action/package_list
    status: 404
  - url: https://opendata.polimi.it/data.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.polimi.it/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.polimi.it/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/repositories?query=polimi
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=politecnico
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  pipeline: pipeline-university
  contract: 0-working/pipeline-university.md
  run: '2026-09-01'
  operator_axis_settled: true
  institution_surfaces: 4
  tenant_surfaces: 1
  federation_surfaces: 1
  registry_surfaces: 1
  vendor_contracts_saved: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com