Seoul National University

Seoul National University (SNU) is South Korea's flagship national research university, located in Seoul, and is ranked #34 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its primary public, machine-readable developer footprint is S-Space, the SNU Open Repository and Archive, a DSpace-based institutional repository that exposes a standards-compliant OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for metadata harvesting of theses, journal articles, and research outputs. SNU does not publish a centralized developer portal or general-purpose open-data API; most other digital services (mySNU portal, SSO, library discovery) are gated and not openly documented.

Seoul National University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Seoul National University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

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18.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryOAI-PMHSouth Korea

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Composite quality — 18.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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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Rate Limits 1

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FinOps 1

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DomainSecurity

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Operate 1

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Commercial 2

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Company 2

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Website

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: snu
name: Seoul National University
description: 'Seoul National University (SNU) is South Korea''s flagship national research university, located in Seoul, and
  is ranked #34 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its primary public, machine-readable developer footprint is S-Space,
  the SNU Open Repository and Archive, a DSpace-based institutional repository that exposes a standards-compliant OAI-PMH
  2.0 interface for metadata harvesting of theses, journal articles, and research outputs. SNU does not publish a centralized
  developer portal or general-purpose open-data API; most other digital services (mySNU portal, SSO, library discovery) are
  gated and not openly documented.'
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/snu.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/snu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- South Korea
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: snu:s-space-oai-pmh
  name: S-Space OAI-PMH Repository Interface
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for S-Space, the SNU Open Repository and Archive (a DSpace institutional
    repository). Verified live (HTTP 200) with repositoryName "SNU Open Repository and Archive" and earliest datestamp 2008-07-31.
    Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, ListIdentifiers, ListSets, GetRecord) and
    multiple metadata formats including oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, marc, rdf, didl, ore, uketd_dc, and xoai.
  humanURL: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/
  baseURL: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Metadata Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/
  - type: x-OAI-PMH-Identify
    url: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: x-OAI-PMH-MetadataFormats
    url: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/snu-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://en.snu.ac.kr/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/seoulnational-university
- type: Plans
  url: plans/snu-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/snu-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/snu-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Seoul National University

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S-Space OAI-PMH Repository Interface

Pricing Plans 1

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