Sapienza University of Rome
Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza Università di Roma) is Italy's largest university, a public research institution founded in 1303 and ranked #132 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It runs no public developer portal, no API gateway and publishes no OpenAPI, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own uniroma1.it hosts, are three genuinely institution-run machine surfaces: an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider on the IRIS institutional research catalogue (iris.uniroma1.it, DSpace-CRIS supplied by CINECA) whose underlying DSpace REST API is closed behind HTTP basic auth; a second, site-wide OAI-PMH 2.0 provider over the 100 open-access journals of Riviste Online SApienza (rosa.uniroma1.it, Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.13), whose OJS REST API v1 answers 403 to anonymous callers; and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idp.uniroma1.it/idp/shibboleth, published as machine-readable metadata in the IDEM GARR AAI federation aggregate. Its DataCite registration (provider ROMAUNO, repository CRUI.UNIROMA1, prefix 10.13133, 8,051 DOIs), its Crossref membership (member 13551, prefix 10.53131) and its ROR identifier 02be6w209 are verifiable from public registry endpoints. The Sapienza Library System open-data project at sbs.uniroma1.it documents a 5-star / DCAT-AP_IT dataset catalogue, but its one dataset download link is a hard 404 and its linked-data service still says "this website is still under development" — the project has not been updated since 2017 and it is recorded here honestly rather than credited as a live open-data API. The library OPAC runs vendor Sebina software on an institution host with no public API, the course catalogue is a Drupal site with no data interface, and there is no official institutional GitHub organization: the Sapienza-named org on GitHub carries student coursework, not platform code.
Sapienza University of Rome publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Italy, and Research.
The Sapienza University of Rome catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
Sapienza University of Rome’s developer surface includes documentation, authentication, GitHub presence, and 15 more developer resources.
7 APIs
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
aid: sapienza-university-of-rome
name: Sapienza University of Rome
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza Università di Roma) is Italy''s largest university, a public research
institution founded in 1303 and ranked #132 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It runs no public developer portal,
no API gateway and publishes no OpenAPI, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own uniroma1.it
hosts, are three genuinely institution-run machine surfaces: an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider on the IRIS institutional research
catalogue (iris.uniroma1.it, DSpace-CRIS supplied by CINECA) whose underlying DSpace REST API is closed behind HTTP basic
auth; a second, site-wide OAI-PMH 2.0 provider over the 100 open-access journals of Riviste Online SApienza (rosa.uniroma1.it,
Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.13), whose OJS REST API v1 answers 403 to anonymous callers; and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity
provider, entityID https://idp.uniroma1.it/idp/shibboleth, published as machine-readable metadata in the IDEM GARR AAI federation
aggregate. Its DataCite registration (provider ROMAUNO, repository CRUI.UNIROMA1, prefix 10.13133, 8,051 DOIs), its Crossref
membership (member 13551, prefix 10.53131) and its ROR identifier 02be6w209 are verifiable from public registry endpoints.
The Sapienza Library System open-data project at sbs.uniroma1.it documents a 5-star / DCAT-AP_IT dataset catalogue, but
its one dataset download link is a hard 404 and its linked-data service still says "this website is still under development"
— the project has not been updated since 2017 and it is recorded here honestly rather than credited as a live open-data
API. The library OPAC runs vendor Sebina software on an institution host with no public API, the course catalogue is a Drupal
site with no data interface, and there is no official institutional GitHub organization: the Sapienza-named org on GitHub
carries student coursework, not platform code.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- 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/sapienza-university-of-rome.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sapienza-university-of-rome/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Italy
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- Open Data
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Scholarly Publishing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:iris-oai-pmh
name: IRIS Research Catalogue OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting provider for IRIS, Sapienza''s institutional research information system and
repository, served from the university''s own host iris.uniroma1.it. Verified live 2026-09-01 — verb=Identify returns
200 text/xml with repositoryName "IRIS - UNIROMA1 - prod", baseURL https://iris.uniroma1.it/oai/request, protocolVersion
2.0, adminEmail gruppo-pubblicazioni@uniroma1.it, earliestDatestamp 2015-05-04T13:12:45Z, deletedRecord transient and
granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns three prefixes — oai_dc, didl (MPEG-21 DIDL) and ore
(OAI-ORE/Atom). verb=ListSets enumerates the Italian research-product typology as community sets (com_11573_784454 "01
Pubblicazione su rivista", com_11573_784455 "02 Pubblicazione su volume", com_11573_784456 "03 Monografia", com_11573_784457
"04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno" and more). verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc returns real records (oai:iris.uniroma1.it:11573/1753388).
The platform is DSpace-CRIS supplied to the Italian university system by CINECA, so the software contract is the vendor''s
and no spec is saved under this institution — the host, the deployment and the research metadata are Sapienza''s. The
DSpace REST API on the same host is NOT open: https://iris.uniroma1.it/rest/ returns "HTTP Status 401 - Invalid basic
authentication token".'
humanURL: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/iris-support
baseURL: https://iris.uniroma1.it/oai/request
tags:
- Research
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/iris-support
- type: Repository
url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sapienza-university-of-rome-conformance.yml
- aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:rosa-oai-pmh
name: Riviste Online SApienza (R.O.SA) OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'Site-wide OAI-PMH 2.0 provider over Riviste Online SApienza, the university''s open-access journal publishing
platform, hosted on its own domain at rosa.uniroma1.it. Verified live 2026-09-01 — the index-level endpoint https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/index/oai?verb=Identify
returns 200 text/xml with repositoryName "Riviste Online SApienza - R.O.SA - 4", repositoryIdentifier rosa.uniroma1.it,
earliestDatestamp 2011-04-02T10:34:31Z, compression gzip/deflate, and a toolkit description naming Open Journal Systems
3.3.0.13 (Public Knowledge Project). verb=ListSets returns 100 sets, one per journal or journal section. Per-journal endpoints
are also live, e.g. https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/annali_di_botanica/oai?verb=Identify (200, repositoryName "Annali
di Botanica", adminEmail annalidibotanica@uniroma1.it). The OJS REST API v1 exists on the same host but is closed to anonymous
callers: /rosa04/annali_di_botanica/api/v1/issues returns 403 application/json {"error":"api.403.unauthorized"}. OJS is
PKP software, so the API contract is PKP''s and none is saved here; the deployment, the host and the journals are Sapienza''s.
The rosa.uniroma1.it root is a soft-404 catch-all — every unknown path returns the 68KB landing page — so the live surface
is only reachable under the /rosa04/ base.'
humanURL: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/
baseURL: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/index/oai
tags:
- Open Access
- Scholarly Publishing
- OAI-PMH
- OJS
- Journals
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sapienza-university-of-rome-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/sapienza-university-of-rome-authentication.yml
- aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:identity-federation
name: Sapienza Shibboleth Identity Provider (IDEM GARR AAI)
x-operator: federation
description: Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, published as machine-readable metadata both directly
on the institution's own host and in the IDEM GARR AAI federation aggregate. Verified live 2026-09-01 — https://idp.uniroma1.it/idp/shibboleth
returns 200 with an EntitiesDescriptor named urn:mace:shibboleth:uniroma1.it:uniroma1-prod-IDP containing EntityDescriptor
entityID="https://idp.uniroma1.it/idp/shibboleth", an IDPSSODescriptor with protocolSupportEnumeration urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol,
shibmd:Scope "uniroma1.it" and mdui:DisplayName "Sapienza Università di Roma" / "Sapienza University of Rome". The same
entityID is present in the IDEM GARR federation aggregate https://md.idem.garr.it/metadata/idem-metadata-sha256.xml (200,
3,054,701 bytes, fetched 2026-09-01). A federation is shared by definition, and the IdP behind it is the institution's
own — this is recorded as the institution's relationship, not as anyone's contract. It is the strongest machine-readable
institution-operated surface Sapienza has and it was absent from the June 2026 profile.
humanURL: https://idem.garr.it/
baseURL: https://idp.uniroma1.it/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Single Sign-On
- IDEM GARR
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://idem.garr.it/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sapienza-university-of-rome-conformance.yml
- aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:library-open-data
name: Sapienza Library System Open Data & Linked Data (dormant)
x-operator: institution
description: Open-data and linked-data publishing project of the Sistema Bibliotecario Sapienza, on the institution's own
host sbs.uniroma1.it, documenting library and digital-resource datasets under CC BY 4.0 against the 5-star open data model
and a DCAT-AP_IT profile. The catalogue pages are live and distinct — /data/opendata/ (200), /data/opendata/itrousr-od_2016-Lib_Info
(200), /data/opendata/itrousr-od_2017-SDL_2013 (200), /data/opendata/itrousr-od_2017-SimonLib_2015 (200), /data/vocabulary
(200) — but the surface does NOT deliver machine-readable data as previously recorded here. The single dataset download
link on the site, https://sbs.uniroma1.it/openDataSets/od_2017/itrousr-od_2017-SimonLib_2015_csv.zip, returns a hard 404;
the linked-data page states in its own words "Linked data access website — This website is still under development"; there
is no SPARQL endpoint (every unknown path under /data/ is a soft-404 returning the same 6,761-byte landing page, including
/data/sparql and /data/catalogo); and the catalogue is dated January 2017 with a 2019 copyright. Recorded as a real but
dormant institutional open-data effort rather than as a callable API.
humanURL: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/opendata/
tags:
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- Library
- DCAT
- CC-BY
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/opendata/
- type: LinkedData
url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/linkeddata
- aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:datacite-registration
name: DataCite DOI registration (provider ROMAUNO / repository CRUI.UNIROMA1)
x-operator: registry
description: 'Sapienza is a registered DataCite member and DOI registrant — a fact about the institution, not a contract
it operates. Verified live 2026-09-01 against the DataCite REST API: https://api.datacite.org/providers/romauno returns
200 with name "Sapienza Università di Roma", symbol ROMAUNO, memberType consortium_organization (under the Italian CRUI
consortium), country IT, website https://www.uniroma1.it/, created 2021-10-04, isActive true. One repository client is
registered beneath it — https://api.datacite.org/clients/crui.uniroma1, "Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza",
symbol CRUI.UNIROMA1, clientType repository, created 2012-09-19, isActive true — holding 8,051 DOIs under prefix 10.13133
that resolve to Sapienza''s own hosts (rosa.uniroma1.it, editricesapienza.it). The DataCite API contract belongs to DataCite
and is not saved here; the membership is Sapienza''s and is recorded.'
humanURL: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/crui.uniroma1
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/clients/crui.uniroma1
tags:
- DataCite
- DOI
- Registry
- Persistent Identifiers
- Research Data
properties:
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sapienza-university-of-rome-conformance.yml
- aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:crossref-membership
name: Crossref membership (member 13551, prefix 10.53131)
x-operator: registry
description: 'Sapienza is a Crossref member and DOI depositor. Verified live 2026-09-01 — https://api.crossref.org/members/13551
returns 200 with primary-name "Sapienza University of Rome", location "Rome, Italy", prefix 10.53131 and 250 deposited
DOIs (55 current, 195 backfile). Two other Crossref members carry the Sapienza name and are NOT this institution — "Sapienza
Grupo Editorial" (35383) and "Sapienza: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies" (29301) — and are excluded
here. The Crossref API is Crossref''s contract; only the membership is recorded.'
humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/13551
tags:
- Crossref
- DOI
- Registry
- Scholarly Publishing
- Persistent Identifiers
properties:
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sapienza-university-of-rome-conformance.yml
- aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:ror-registration
name: ROR organization identifier 02be6w209
x-operator: registry
description: Sapienza is registered in the Research Organization Registry with ROR ID https://ror.org/02be6w209, names "Sapienza
University of Rome" / "Sapienza – Università di Roma", and website https://www.uniroma1.it. Verified live 2026-09-01 via
https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations?query=Sapienza+University+of+Rome (200) and https://ror.org/02be6w209 (200). Distinct
from Unitelma Sapienza (https://ror.org/04dfrdm61), a separate telematic university. ROR's API is ROR's; the registration
is Sapienza's.
humanURL: https://ror.org/02be6w209
baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/02be6w209
tags:
- ROR
- Registry
- Persistent Identifiers
- Research
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.uniroma1.it/en
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://idp.uniroma1.it/idp/shibboleth
- type: OpenData
url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/opendata/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://opac.uniroma1.it/SebinaOpacRMS/.do?sysb=univ
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/iris-support
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/sapienza-university-of-rome-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/sapienza-university-of-rome-authentication.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/piano-privacy-sapienza
- type: Accessibility
url: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/accessibility
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/Sapienza-University-Rome
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sapienza-universita-di-roma/
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/sapienza-university-of-rome-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/sapienza-university-of-rome-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/sapienza-university-of-rome-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/sapienza-university-of-rome-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'Three institution-operated machine surfaces were found and verified live on 2026-09-01 — an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider
on the IRIS research catalogue (iris.uniroma1.it), a second site-wide OAI-PMH 2.0 provider over 100 open-access journals
on Riviste Online SApienza (rosa.uniroma1.it, OJS 3.3.0.13), and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider published in
the IDEM GARR AAI federation aggregate — plus four education-regime domain standards evidenced from public endpoints (oai-pmh,
shibboleth, saml, datacite) and a fifth (crossref) from the Crossref member API. Sapienza publishes no OpenAPI, no developer
portal, no self-service key issuance and no rate-limit or terms documentation for any of them, and no contract has been
generated to stand in for one: DSpace-CRIS (CINECA) and OJS (PKP) contracts are product contracts shared by every deployment
of that software and belong in the vendors'' own repos, not here. Two REST surfaces exist on institution hosts and are
both closed — iris.uniroma1.it/rest/ returns 401 basic-auth, and the OJS /api/v1/ endpoints return 403 api.403.unauthorized
— recorded in authentication/ rather than counted as callable. The Sistema Bibliotecario open-data project is documented
but dormant: its only dataset download 404s and its linked-data service self-declares "still under development". The library
OPAC is vendor Sebina software on an institution host with no public API; the course catalogue is Drupal HTML with no
data interface; no institutional CKAN, SPARQL, transit, dining or HPC allocation API was found; and no official institutional
GitHub organization exists. No Figshare, Pure, Ex Libris, Symplectic or Dataverse contract was found or added.'
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: probed
evidence:
- url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
status: 200
- url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/oai/request?verb=ListSets
status: 200
- url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
status: 200
- url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/rest/
status: 401
- url: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/index/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/index/oai?verb=ListSets
status: 200
- url: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/annali_di_botanica/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/annali_di_botanica/api/v1/issues
status: 403
- url: https://idp.uniroma1.it/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://md.idem.garr.it/metadata/idem-metadata-sha256.xml
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/romauno
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/crui.uniroma1
status: 200
- url: https://api.crossref.org/members/13551
status: 200
- url: https://ror.org/02be6w209
status: 200
- url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/opendata/
status: 200
- url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/linkeddata
status: 200
- url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/openDataSets/od_2017/itrousr-od_2017-SimonLib_2015_csv.zip
status: 404
- url: https://opac.uniroma1.it/SebinaOpacRMS/.do?sysb=univ
status: 200
- url: https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it
status: 200
- url: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/crui.uniroma1
status: 429
- url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/sparql
status: 200
- url: https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/piano-privacy-sapienza
status: 200
- url: https://www.uniroma1.it/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://api.uniroma1.it
status: 0
- url: https://data.uniroma1.it
status: 0
- url: https://dati.uniroma1.it
status: 0
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