UCLouvain

aid: uclouvain
name: UCLouvain
description: 'UCLouvain (Universite catholique de Louvain) is Belgium''s largest French-speaking university, based in Louvain-la-Neuve,
  and is ranked #203 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in open
  science and library infrastructure rather than a single unified developer portal: the institution operates an institutional
  Dataverse open-data repository and the DIAL (Digital Access to Libraries) institutional repository, both of which expose
  standards-based APIs (Dataverse Native/Search API and OAI-PMH metadata harvesting). UCLouvain also maintains a public GitHub
  organization and originated the open-source OSIS (Open Student Information System) project. No single gated, key-issuing
  developer portal was confirmed at the time of review.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Open Science
- Research Data
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- Belgium
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: uclouvain:dataverse-api
  name: Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse API
  description: UCLouvain's institutional research-data repository runs on Dataverse (v6.8 at time of review) and exposes the
    standard Dataverse Native and Search APIs under /api, allowing programmatic search and retrieval of datasets, files, and
    metadata. UCLouvain was the first Belgian university to deploy an institutional open-data repository.
  humanURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/
  baseURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/api
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Research Data
  - Dataverse
  - Open Science
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/uclouvain-dataverse-api.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/uclouvain-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/uclouvain-dataset-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/uclouvain-search-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/uclouvain-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/uclouvain-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/uclouvain-context.jsonld
- aid: uclouvain:dataverse-oai
  name: Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI-PMH
  description: The UCLouvain Dataverse repository exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint ("Open Data @ UCLouvain
    Dataverse OAI Archive") for harvesting dataset metadata by external aggregators and service providers.
  humanURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/
  baseURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Data
  - Metadata
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/oai.html
- aid: uclouvain:dial-oai
  name: DIAL UCLouvain OAI-PMH
  description: DIAL (Digital Access to Libraries) is UCLouvain's institutional repository for research publications. It exposes
    an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint ("DIAL UCLouvain Repository") for harvesting publication metadata into discovery systems and aggregators.
  humanURL: https://dial.uclouvain.be/
  baseURL: https://dial.uclouvain.be/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - Library
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: uclouvain:osis
  name: OSIS - Open Student Information System
  description: OSIS (Open Student Information System) is an open-source higher-education management platform originated and
    maintained by UCLouvain to manage students, teachers, courses, and programs. It is a Django application published on GitHub
    and includes REST API and SDK components; it is run by the institution rather than offered as a hosted public API.
  humanURL: https://github.com/uclouvain/osis
  tags:
  - Open Source
  - Student Information System
  - Higher Education
  - Django
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/uclouvain/osis
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uclouvain/osis
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uclouvain
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://be.linkedin.com/school/uclouvain/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/uclouvain-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/uclouvain-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/uclouvain-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com