# University of California, Berkeley

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ucb/  
**Website:** https://www.berkeley.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley is one of the few universities in this cohort that genuinely operates its own API program rather than merely appearing to: Berkeley IT's Engineering and Integration Services team runs an API Central developer portal and a shared API Gateway on Berkeley's own infrastructure, publishing a public catalog of roughly 28 campus APIs across Student Information, HR, finance and identity, each listed with its UC data classification (P1/P2/P3) and a named Data Owner. That program is real, but it is internal-first: the catalog is public and the contracts are not. No OpenAPI definition is retrievable without a CalNet identity and Data Owner approval, so this profile holds ZERO OpenAPI documents and that is the accurate measurement, not a gap in the research. What Berkeley does publish without credentials is narrower and mostly overlooked: a complete Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata document at shib.berkeley.edu (InCommon entity urn:mace:incommon:berkeley.edu), a live GeoBlacklight JSON catalog of 5,156 geospatial datasets at geodata.lib.berkeley.edu, and a gated but well-formed research-computing API for the Savio cluster's access management system. Its research repositories are not its engineering: the Digital Collections OAI-PMH endpoint runs on TIND, and eScholarship is a California Digital Library service for the entire UC system. Both are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Berkeley contracts.

## Kin Score — 35.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+12.1 from 23.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| 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 / Affiliation-Gated — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **API Central (Developer Portal)** — Berkeley IT's centralized API management developer portal, operated by the Engineering and Integration Services (EIS) team. The catalog itself is public: an anonymous client can...
- **UC Berkeley API Gateway** — The single centralized entry point for API requests across the Berkeley campus, operated by Berkeley IT on Berkeley's own CloudFront distribution. The gateway obfuscates the int...
- **CalNet Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 Metadata)** — UC Berkeley's Shibboleth identity provider, operated by IST-CalNet, publishes a complete unauthenticated SAML 2.0 metadata document describing how any service provider federates...
- **UC Berkeley Library GeoData (GeoBlacklight) Catalog API** — The UC Berkeley Library's GIS and map discovery application, built and hosted by the Library itself (the application source is public at BerkeleyLibrary/geodata and the host res...
- **MyBRC Cluster Access Management API** — Berkeley Research Computing's cluster access management system, which handles allocations, project membership and access requests for the Savio high-performance computing cluste...
- **UC Berkeley Digital Collections OAI-PMH (TIND tenant)** — Berkeley's Digital Collections repository exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface, confirmed with an actual verb=Identify response reporting repositoryName "Digital Collections", r...
- **eScholarship Repository and OAI-PMH (California Digital Library tenant)** — eScholarship is the University of California's open-access publishing platform and institutional repository, operated system-wide by the California Digital Library, not by the B...
- **UC Library Search / Primo VE Discovery (Ex Libris tenant)** — Library discovery for the Berkeley campus runs on Ex Libris Primo VE as part of the shared UC Library Search environment. search.library.berkeley.edu is a Berkeley-branded hostn...

## Security (2)

- **Ucb Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Ucb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ucb Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Public Research University, United States, California, UC System, Research, Identity Federation, Research Repository, Research Computing, Course Catalog, Library, Open Data, Geospatial Data, OAI-PMH

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ucb/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.