University College Dublin

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.

University College Dublin publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including CBÉ API, CBÉD API, CBÉG API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Ireland, and Library.

The University College Dublin catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

University College Dublin’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, and 9 more developer resources.

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43.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

9 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityIrelandLibraryDigital LibraryIIIFOpen AccessCultural Heritage

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 43.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ucd Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

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
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ucd.png
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:ucd-cb-api
  name: University College Dublin CBÉ API
  description: The CBÉ API from University College Dublin — 2 operation(s) for cbé.
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request
  tags:
  - CBÉ
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucd-cb-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - 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
- aid: ucd:ucd-cb-d-api
  name: University College Dublin CBÉD API
  description: The CBÉD API from University College Dublin — 3 operation(s) for cbéd.
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request
  tags:
  - CBÉD
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucd-cb-d-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - 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
- aid: ucd:ucd-cb-g-api
  name: University College Dublin CBÉG API
  description: The CBÉG API from University College Dublin — 3 operation(s) for cbég.
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request
  tags:
  - CBÉG
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucd-cb-g-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - 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
- aid: ucd:ucd-cb-s-api
  name: University College Dublin CBÉS API
  description: The CBÉS API from University College Dublin — 3 operation(s) for cbés.
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request
  tags:
  - CBÉS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucd-cb-s-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - 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
- aid: ucd:ucd-metadata-api
  name: University College Dublin Metadata API
  description: The Metadata API from University College Dublin — 1 operation(s) for metadata.
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucd-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - 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
- aid: ucd:ucd-reference-api
  name: University College Dublin Reference API
  description: The Reference API from University College Dublin — 2 operation(s) for reference.
  humanURL: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/
  baseURL: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request
  tags:
  - Reference
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucd-reference-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gaois.ie
  - 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: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/ucd-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ucd-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ucd-authentication.yml
- 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