University College Dublin

aid: ucd
name: University College Dublin
description: 'University College Dublin (UCD) is Ireland''s largest university and ranks #126 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in library and cultural-heritage systems rather than a central
  developer portal: the UCD Digital Library exposes IIIF Image and Presentation APIs plus a Geospatial Data API and unAPI
  endpoint, the DSpace-based Research Repository UCD offers OAI-PMH harvesting and a REST API, and the National Folklore Collection
  held at UCD is served via the Dúchas API. There is no unified, self-service institutional API program; most administrative
  and identity systems are gated behind institutional affiliation.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Ireland
- Library
- Digital Library
- IIIF
- Open Access
- Cultural Heritage
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ucd:digital-library-iiif
  name: UCD Digital Library Image & Presentation API (IIIF)
  description: The UCD Digital Library Data Services expose IIIF Image API 2.0 and Presentation API 2.0 endpoints serving
    images and manifests for digitized cultural-heritage objects and collections, consumable by IIIF clients such as Mirador.
    Objects are addressed by namespaced internal identifiers (e.g. ivrla:31286).
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  tags:
  - Digital Library
  - IIIF
  - Images
  - Cultural Heritage
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
- aid: ucd:digital-library-geospatial
  name: UCD Digital Library Geospatial Data API
  description: Geospatial Data API for the UCD Digital Library, providing boundary and search data for map visualisations
    (used with LeafletJS) via geoFilter and geoBounds query parameters, alongside an unAPI metadata endpoint.
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  tags:
  - Digital Library
  - Geospatial
  - Maps
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
- aid: ucd:research-repository
  name: Research Repository UCD (DSpace OAI-PMH / REST)
  description: Research Repository UCD is the institution's green open-access scholarly repository, built on DSpace-CRIS.
    It provides an OAI-PMH harvesting interface and the DSpace REST API for programmatic access to publications and theses
    metadata.
  humanURL: https://libguides.ucd.ie/RRU/usage
  baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.ucd.ie/RRU/usage
- aid: ucd:duchas
  name: Dúchas API (National Folklore Collection, UCD)
  description: The Dúchas API exposes published content from the National Folklore Collection held at University College Dublin,
    returning JSON across the CBÉ, CBÉS, CBÉG and CBÉD databases. Requests require an API key passed via the X-Api-Key header,
    apiKey query parameter, or HTTP Basic auth.
  humanURL: https://docs.gaois.ie
  baseURL: https://www.duchas.ie/api/v0.5
  tags:
  - Cultural Heritage
  - Folklore
  - JSON
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucd-duchas.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ucd-photograph-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/ucd-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/ucd-rules.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/ucd-context.jsonld
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ucd.ie/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/University-College-Dublin
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-college-dublin/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ucd-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ucd-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ucd-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com