# University of California, Davis **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/uc-davis/ **Website:** https://www.ucdavis.edu/ **APIs profiled:** 18 The University of California, Davis is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California and a member of the ten-campus University of California system. Its programmable footprint is real but decentralized: there is no campus-wide developer portal, no API gateway, no published deprecation policy and no self-service signup for anything. What UC Davis genuinely operates and authored itself is three things — the Aggie Experts API (UC Davis Library, OpenAPI 3.0.0 v5.0, twelve operations over experts, works and grants, callable anonymously and returning JSON-LD with ORCID iDs and UC Davis ARK identifiers), the DAMS API behind digital.ucdavis.edu (built on the Library's own open-source 'fin' framework, though several documented operations return soft-200 errors), and the PEAKS asset- and access-tracking API run by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (MIT-licensed, source at github.com/ucdavis/Peaks, API-key gated). Alongside those it runs a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth identity provider published to InCommon as urn:mace:incommon:ucdavis.edu, and UC Davis Health operates a live FHIR R4 endpoint on its own domain — although that endpoint's CapabilityStatement is Epic's work, not UC Davis's, and is deliberately not claimed here. Two further surfaces are TENANT relationships and are labelled as such rather than credited as UC Davis engineering: scholarly output in eScholarship (operated by the California Digital Library for all of UC) and library discovery on Ex Libris Primo. Several campus surfaces that plainly exist — the open data portal aggiedata.ucdavis.edu, the registrar's course search, research computing at hpc.ucdavis.edu — sit behind a Cloudflare bot challenge and could not be read; that is a limit on this profile, not evidence of absence. ## Kin Score — 46.5 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+12.0 from 34.5). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 50.0 | | Contract Quality | 50.9 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 | | Commercial Clarity | 50.0 | | Access Clarity | 50.0 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | no | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Free · No self-service signup — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (18) - **Aggie Experts API** — Aggie Experts is the UC Davis Library's research-profile and expertise-discovery system, and its API is the strongest programmable surface the institution operates. Version 5.0,... - **DAMS API — UC Davis Library Digital Collections** — The Digital Asset Management System API behind digital.ucdavis.edu, built on 'fin', the UC Davis Library's own open-source repository framework (github.com/ucd-library/fin). Ope... - **UC Davis Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / InCommon)** — UC Davis operates its own SAML 2.0 identity provider and publishes signed federation metadata as entityID urn:mace:incommon:ucdavis.edu. This is machine-readable, institution-op... - **UC Davis Health FHIR R4 endpoint** — UC Davis Health runs a live HL7 FHIR R4 endpoint on its own domain at emrrp.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu, registered in Epic's public endpoint directory as 'UC Davis' and 'UC Davis - MMC' ... - **IET Middleware Web Service APIs** — Information and Educational Technology (IET) Middleware Web Service APIs provide campus integration and identity-related middleware. Probed 2026-08-19: the endpoint returns HTTP... - **UC Davis Health Systems Integration APIs** — UC Davis Health Systems Integration offers Epic (EHR), HL7 FHIR and custom SOAP/REST APIs, authenticated with API keys, OAuth2 or Epic Interconnect and fronted by InterSystems A... - **CAES ACE API** — The CAES Computing Resources Unit documents an ACE API supporting college administrative and content workflows. Probed 2026-08-19: the documentation page returns HTTP 200, but n... - **PEAKS (CAES) — Access API** — The Access resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences... - **PEAKS (CAES) — Documents API** — The Documents resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Scien... - **PEAKS (CAES) — Equipment API** — The Equipment resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Scien... - **PEAKS (CAES) — Keys API** — The Keys resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences C... - **PEAKS (CAES) — KeySerials API** — The KeySerials resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Scie... - **PEAKS (CAES) — People API** — The People resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences... - **PEAKS (CAES) — PeopleAdmin API** — The PeopleAdmin resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sci... - **PEAKS (CAES) — Spaces API** — The Spaces resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences... - **PEAKS (CAES) — Workstations API** — The Workstations resource of PEAKS (People, Equipment, Access, Keys, Space), the asset- and access-tracking application the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sc... - **eScholarship — UC Davis unit (tenant)** — UC Davis's open-access scholarly output is deposited into eScholarship, the University of California's shared repository, under the campus unit path /uc/ucd. The content, the de... - **UC Davis Library discovery — Ex Libris Primo (tenant)** — Library discovery at search.library.ucdavis.edu is an Ex Libris Primo instance. The subdomain is UC Davis's and the collection is UC Davis's, but the application is Ex Libris's:... ## Agentic access (1) - **Uc Davis Agentic Access** — 81 operations · 30 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop ## Security (2) - **Uc Davis Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme - **Uc Davis Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Uc Davis Plans Pricing** ## Tags University, Higher Education, Education, United States, California, UC System, Public Research University, Research, Research Data, Identity Federation, Digital Collections, Library, Health, Open-Source --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/uc-davis/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.