# University College Dublin

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ucd/  
**Website:** https://www.ucd.ie/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 33.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 61.8 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **UCD Digital Library Image & Presentation API (IIIF)** — 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 colle...
- **UCD Digital Library Geospatial Data API** — 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, al...
- **Research Repository UCD (DSpace OAI-PMH / REST)** — 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 fo...
- **University College Dublin CBÉ API** — The CBÉ API from University College Dublin — 2 operation(s) for cbé.
- **University College Dublin CBÉD API** — The CBÉD API from University College Dublin — 3 operation(s) for cbéd.
- **University College Dublin CBÉG API** — The CBÉG API from University College Dublin — 3 operation(s) for cbég.
- **University College Dublin CBÉS API** — The CBÉS API from University College Dublin — 3 operation(s) for cbés.
- **University College Dublin Metadata API** — The Metadata API from University College Dublin — 1 operation(s) for metadata.
- **University College Dublin Reference API** — The Reference API from University College Dublin — 2 operation(s) for reference.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ucd Agentic Access** — 14 operations

## Security (2)

- **Ucd Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **Ucd Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ucd Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Ireland, Library, Digital Library, IIIF, Open Access, Cultural Heritage

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