University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara is a public land-grant research university in the University of California system and an Association of American Universities member. Unusually for this cohort, UCSB runs a real, institution-operated API programme rather than a shelf of vendor contracts: a Campus API Gateway at api.ucsb.edu, a developer portal at developer.ucsb.edu cataloging 37 campus APIs across Academics, Administration, Dining, Employees, Housing and Students, a written and binding API design standard for campus publishers, and 21 downloadable first-party OpenAPI documents — every one of which declares a ucsb.edu host, so none of it is misattributed vendor engineering. The programme is real but it is closed: portal accounts are approved by hand, 25 of the 37 APIs sit above the Auto-Approved tier, and no endpoint is callable without an approved consumer key (an unauthenticated probe returns 401). UCSB also operates its own Shibboleth identity provider registered in InCommon, whose SAML metadata is openly machine-readable, and the Alexandria Digital Research Library, which is institution-run but has no API. Its library discovery layer and its open-access scholarship are vendor and UC-system tenancies and are recorded as such. There is no open-data portal, no OAuth authorization server, no llms.txt and no changelog.

University of California, Santa Barbara publishes 61 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Admit Levels API, Classes API, Classifications API, and 58 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Public Research University, and UC System.

The University of California, Santa Barbara catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

University of California, Santa Barbara’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, GitHub presence, support, status page, and 21 more developer resources.

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47.7/100 developing ▼ -5.9 Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

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42 APIs

Education Higher Education University Public Research University UC System United States California Campus Student Information System Course CatalogAcademicsIdentity Federation Research Repository Library API Gateway Developer Portal Developer Tools

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 47.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.6 / 15

Access Clarity 7.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 61

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

UCSB API Developer Portal

Central campus API developer portal. Catalogs 37 campus APIs across six categories, renders each published contract with Swagger UI, and runs registration, App/consumer-key crea...

UCSB Campus API Gateway

The single API front door for the campus, at api.ucsb.edu. Every campus API is published as a proxy on it and it enforces the ucsb-api-key application entitlement before a reque...

UCSB Identity Federation (Passport / InCommon)

UCSB operates its own Shibboleth identity provider, "Passport", at passport.identity.ucsb.edu, registered in InCommon as entityID urn:mace:incommon:ucsb.edu. Its SAML 2.0 metada...

Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL)

UCSB Library's institutional research repository, moved from alexandria.ucsb.edu to digital.library.ucsb.edu and served through CloudFront. The host is UCSB's and the front end ...

UCSB Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)

UCSB Library’s catalog and discovery layer. The host search.library.ucsb.edu is a UCSB CNAME onto ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, and the service resolves to Ex Libris tenancy 01U...

UCSB on eScholarship

UCSB’s open-access scholarship collection inside eScholarship, the University of California’s systemwide repository operated by the California Digital Library. It IS OAI-PMH har...

University of California, Santa Barbara Admit Levels API

The AdmitLevels API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for admitlevels.

University of California, Santa Barbara Classes API

The Classes API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for classes.

University of California, Santa Barbara Classifications API

The Classifications API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classifications.

University of California, Santa Barbara Class Levels API

The ClassLevels API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classlevels.

University of California, Santa Barbara Class List API

The ClassList API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classlist.

University of California, Santa Barbara Class Section API

The ClassSection API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classsection.

University of California, Santa Barbara Class Space Availability API

The ClassSpaceAvailability API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classspaceavailability.

University of California, Santa Barbara Colleges API

The Colleges API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for colleges.

University of California, Santa Barbara Course Repeats API

The CourseRepeats API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for courserepeats.

University of California, Santa Barbara Courses API

The Courses API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for courses.

University of California, Santa Barbara Course Statuses API

The CourseStatuses API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for coursestatuses.

University of California, Santa Barbara Days API

The Days API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for days.

University of California, Santa Barbara Degree Status API

The DegreeStatus API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for degreestatus.

University of California, Santa Barbara Departments API

The Departments API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 3 operation(s) for departments.

University of California, Santa Barbara Divisions API

The Divisions API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for divisions.

University of California, Santa Barbara Emphasis API

The Emphasis API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for emphasis.

University of California, Santa Barbara Employees API

The Employees API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 7 operation(s) for employees.

University of California, Santa Barbara Events API

The Events API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for events.

University of California, Santa Barbara Fee Status API

The FeeStatus API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for feestatus.

University of California, Santa Barbara Finals API

The Finals API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for finals.

University of California, Santa Barbara FWTMN001 API

The FWTMN001 API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for fwtmn001.

University of California, Santa Barbara FWTMN006 API

The FWTMN006 API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for fwtmn006.

University of California, Santa Barbara Gender Identity API

The GenderIdentity API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for genderidentity.

University of California, Santa Barbara Get Active or Specific ClassCode API

The Get Active or Specific ClassCode API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for get active or specific classcode.

University of California, Santa Barbara Get all Active ClassCodes API

The Get all Active ClassCodes API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for get all active classcodes.

University of California, Santa Barbara Grades API

The Grades API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for grades.

University of California, Santa Barbara Grading Options API

The GradingOptions API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for gradingoptions.

University of California, Santa Barbara Instruction Types API

The InstructionTypes API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for instructiontypes.

University of California, Santa Barbara Instructor Functions API

The InstructorFunctions API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for instructorfunctions.

University of California, Santa Barbara International Students API

The InternationalStudents API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for internationalstudents.

University of California, Santa Barbara Majors API

The Majors API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 4 operation(s) for majors.

University of California, Santa Barbara Minors API

The Minors API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 3 operation(s) for minors.

University of California, Santa Barbara Multi Ethnicity API

The MultiEthnicity API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for multiethnicity.

University of California, Santa Barbara Objectives API

The Objectives API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for objectives.

University of California, Santa Barbara Obj Maj Emps API

The ObjMajEmps API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for objmajemps.

University of California, Santa Barbara Organizations API

The Organizations API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for organizations.

University of California, Santa Barbara Perms API

The Perms API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for perms.

University of California, Santa Barbara Programs API

The Programs API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for programs.

University of California, Santa Barbara Pronouns API

The Pronouns API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for pronouns.

University of California, Santa Barbara Quarters API

The Quarters API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for quarters.

University of California, Santa Barbara Registration API

The Registration API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for registration.

University of California, Santa Barbara Registration Blocks API

The RegistrationBlocks API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for registrationblocks.

University of California, Santa Barbara Reg Status API

The RegStatus API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for regstatus.

University of California, Santa Barbara Repeat Types API

The RepeatTypes API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for repeattypes.

University of California, Santa Barbara Requirement Courses API

The RequirementCourses API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for requirementcourses.

University of California, Santa Barbara Requirements API

The Requirements API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for requirements.

University of California, Santa Barbara Rosters API

The Rosters API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for rosters.

University of California, Santa Barbara Schedules API

The Schedules API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 7 operation(s) for schedules.

University of California, Santa Barbara School Types API

The SchoolTypes API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for schooltypes.

University of California, Santa Barbara Sessions API

The Sessions API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for sessions.

University of California, Santa Barbara Students API

The Students API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 3 operation(s) for students.

University of California, Santa Barbara Study Load Status API

The StudyLoadStatus API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for studyloadstatus.

University of California, Santa Barbara Subjects API

The Subjects API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for subjects.

University of California, Santa Barbara Uc Fau Validation API

The Uc Fau Validation API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for uc fau validation.

University of California, Santa Barbara Verifications API

The Verifications API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for verifications.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ucsb Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ucsb Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Ucsb Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ucsb Context

17 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

University of California, Santa Barbara API Rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 13

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

Schedule

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Class

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ucsb Authentication

apiKey/basic/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Ucsb Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Ucsb Scopes

3 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHub

GitHub

LibraryCatalog

LibraryCatalog

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

CourseCatalog

CourseCatalog

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Status

Status

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Accessibility

Accessibility

IdentityFederation

IdentityFederation

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

Registrar

Registrar

InformationTechnology

InformationTechnology

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ucsb
name: University of California, Santa Barbara
description: 'University of California, Santa Barbara is a public land-grant research university in the University of California
  system and an Association of American Universities member. Unusually for this cohort, UCSB runs a real, institution-operated
  API programme rather than a shelf of vendor contracts: a Campus API Gateway at api.ucsb.edu, a developer portal at developer.ucsb.edu
  cataloging 37 campus APIs across Academics, Administration, Dining, Employees, Housing and Students, a written and binding
  API design standard for campus publishers, and 21 downloadable first-party OpenAPI documents — every one of which declares
  a ucsb.edu host, so none of it is misattributed vendor engineering. The programme is real but it is closed: portal accounts
  are approved by hand, 25 of the 37 APIs sit above the Auto-Approved tier, and no endpoint is callable without an approved
  consumer key (an unauthenticated probe returns 401). UCSB also operates its own Shibboleth identity provider registered
  in InCommon, whose SAML metadata is openly machine-readable, and the Alexandria Digital Research Library, which is institution-run
  but has no API. Its library discovery layer and its open-access scholarship are vendor and UC-system tenancies and are recorded
  as such. There is no open-data portal, no OAuth authorization server, no llms.txt and no changelog.'
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free · Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ucsb.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Public Research University
- UC System
- United States
- California
- Campus
- Student Information System
- Course Catalog
- Academics
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- Library
- API Gateway
- Developer Portal
- Developer Tools
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ucsb:developer-portal
  name: UCSB API Developer Portal
  description: Central campus API developer portal. Catalogs 37 campus APIs across six categories, renders each published
    contract with Swagger UI, and runs registration, App/consumer-key creation and the API Access Request workflow. Accounts
    are approved manually by an administrator. UCSB operates this itself on Drupal 10; it is not a vendor developer-portal
    product.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  x-operator: institution
  tags:
  - API Portal
  - Developer Portal
  - Campus
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/apis/all
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/user/register
- aid: ucsb:campus-api-gateway
  name: UCSB Campus API Gateway
  description: 'The single API front door for the campus, at api.ucsb.edu. Every campus API is published as a proxy on it
    and it enforces the ucsb-api-key application entitlement before a request reaches a backend web service. It runs on Apigee
    (api.ucsb.edu CNAMEs to ucsb-prod.apigee.net) but the domain, the proxies, the API products and the backend services are
    UCSB’s, so this is institution-operated infrastructure on a vendor runtime, not a vendor tenancy. Probed live 2026-08-30:
    an unauthenticated call returns 401 with an Apigee fault envelope, and the CORS allow-list advertises the whole auth surface
    — ucsb-api-key, ucsb-api-version, ucsb-user-jwt.'
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/docs/security/overview
  baseURL: https://api.ucsb.edu
  x-operator: institution
  tags:
  - API Gateway
  - Campus
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/docs/security/overview
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ucsb-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/ucsb-scopes.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/ucsb-problem-types.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/ucsb-rules.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ucsb-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/ucsb-vocabulary.yml
- aid: ucsb:identity-federation
  name: UCSB Identity Federation (Passport / InCommon)
  description: UCSB operates its own Shibboleth identity provider, "Passport", at passport.identity.ucsb.edu, registered in
    InCommon as entityID urn:mace:incommon:ucsb.edu. Its SAML 2.0 metadata is machine-readable and retrievable without credentials
    from the InCommon MDQ service — HTTP 200, application/samlmetadata+xml, XML-signed, probed 2026-08-30. This is the one
    institution-operated machine-readable surface UCSB has that is not an OpenAPI, and it is the kind of surface this catalog
    has historically missed for universities entirely.
  humanURL: https://passport.identity.ucsb.edu/idp/shibboleth
  baseURL: https://passport.identity.ucsb.edu/idp/shibboleth
  x-operator: institution
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - InCommon
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsb.edu
  - type: Metadata
    url: https://passport.identity.ucsb.edu/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml
  x-metadata-url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsb.edu
  x-audit-note: 'A host-based verdict on the InCommon MDQ URL reads "vendor" because other institutions resolve through the
    same federation service. That is the federation, not the operator: the entity described is urn:mace:incommon:ucsb.edu
    and the IdP it points at, passport.identity.ucsb.edu, is UCSB''s. baseURL is set to the institution-operated IdP so the
    verdict lands correctly; the MDQ retrieval URL is kept as x-metadata-url and as evidence in conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml.'
- aid: ucsb:alexandria-digital-research-library
  name: Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL)
  description: 'UCSB Library''s institutional research repository, moved from alexandria.ucsb.edu to digital.library.ucsb.edu
    and served through CloudFront. The host is UCSB''s and the front end is UCSB Library''s own component build (the pages
    render custom <render-daylight-component> elements, not a hosted vendor UI), so it is recorded as institution-operated
    rather than a vendor tenancy. It publishes NO documented API and no OAI-PMH endpoint: /oai-pmh?verb=Identify returns 403
    and /search.json returns 404 (probed 2026-08-30). The CloudFront edge also bot-challenges some requests, so 403 here is
    a live surface refusing us, not a dead one. Recorded as a surface class UCSB operates, with the honest note that it is
    not programmable.'
  humanURL: https://digital.library.ucsb.edu/
  x-operator: institution
  x-programmable: false
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Library
  - Digital Collections
  properties:
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://digital.library.ucsb.edu/
- aid: ucsb:library-discovery
  name: UCSB Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)
  description: UCSB Library’s catalog and discovery layer. The host search.library.ucsb.edu is a UCSB CNAME onto ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com,
    and the service resolves to Ex Libris tenancy 01UCSB_INST. The collection, the holdings and the tenant are UCSB’s; the
    contract, the API and the engineering are Ex Libris’. TENANT — the relationship is recorded here, the vendor’s generic
    Alma/Primo specification is deliberately NOT saved under this institution.
  humanURL: https://search.library.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
  x-operator: tenant
  x-vendor: Ex Libris (Clarivate)
  x-tenant-evidence: 'DNS: search.library.ucsb.edu CNAME ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com; discovery vid=01UCSB_INST:UCSB'
  tags:
  - Library
  - Library Catalog
  - Discovery
  - Vendor Tenant
  properties:
  - type: LibraryCatalog
    url: https://search.library.ucsb.edu/
- aid: ucsb:escholarship
  name: UCSB on eScholarship
  description: UCSB’s open-access scholarship collection inside eScholarship, the University of California’s systemwide repository
    operated by the California Digital Library. It IS OAI-PMH harvestable (https://escholarship.org/oai?verb=Identify returns
    200, probed 2026-08-30), but the endpoint is CDL’s and serves every UC campus, so the oai-pmh conformance is NOT credited
    to UCSB. TENANT — UCSB’s content on another operator’s platform.
  humanURL: https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsb
  baseURL: https://escholarship.org/oai
  x-operator: tenant
  x-vendor: California Digital Library (University of California)
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Vendor Tenant
  properties:
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsb
  x-audit-note: 'A cohort-derived host verdict reads escholarship.org as "vendor" because several UC campuses claim it. That
    is correct about the HOST and is exactly why no eScholarship contract is saved under this slug. The entry is retained
    at x-operator: tenant because the relationship itself is a real institutional fact — UCSB''s open-access collection lives
    there — and the pipeline is explicit that a tenant relationship must be re-labelled, never deleted, to avoid a misattribution.
    Nothing here is credited to UCSB: see the oai-pmh and datacite entries in conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml, both scored
    conforms:false with operator:tenant.'
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-admitlevels-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Admit Levels API
  description: The AdmitLevels API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for admitlevels.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - AdmitLevels
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsb-admitlevels-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-curriculums
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-graduate-programs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-quarter-calendar
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-quarter-calendar
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-students-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-clas-schedules
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/classcode-lookup-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-chartfield
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/peoplesoft-fau-functional-accounting-unit-combination-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-basic-student-info
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-courses
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
  - type: Documentation
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- aid: ucsb:ucsb-classes-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Classes API
  description: The Classes API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 2 operation(s) for classes.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/classcode-lookup-service
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/events
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/peoplesoft-fau-functional-accounting-unit-combination-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-registrations
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-classifications-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Classifications API
  description: The Classifications API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classifications.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - Classifications
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  - type: Documentation
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-quarter-calendar
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-students-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-clas-schedules
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/classcode-lookup-service
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/peoplesoft-fau-functional-accounting-unit-combination-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-basic-student-info
  - type: Documentation
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-classlevels-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Class Levels API
  description: The ClassLevels API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classlevels.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - ClassLevels
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  - type: Documentation
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-students-api
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/classcode-lookup-service
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-chartfield
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/events
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/peoplesoft-fau-functional-accounting-unit-combination-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-basic-student-info
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-courses
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-registrations
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-rosters
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-classlist-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Class List API
  description: The ClassList API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classlist.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - ClassList
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-graduate-programs
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-quarter-calendar
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-students-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-clas-schedules
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/classcode-lookup-service
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/peoplesoft-fau-functional-accounting-unit-combination-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-basic-student-info
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-registrations
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-rosters
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-classsection-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Class Section API
  description: The ClassSection API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classsection.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - ClassSection
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    url: openapi/ucsb-classsection-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-graduate-programs
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/events
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-basic-student-info
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-courses
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-registrations
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-rosters
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-classspaceavailability-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Class Space Availability API
  description: The ClassSpaceAvailability API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for classspaceavailability.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - ClassSpaceAvailability
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    url: openapi/ucsb-classspaceavailability-api-openapi.yml
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-registrations
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-rosters
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-colleges-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Colleges API
  description: The Colleges API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for colleges.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - Colleges
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    url: openapi/ucsb-colleges-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-curriculums
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-graduate-programs
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-students-api
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/events
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/peoplesoft-fau-functional-accounting-unit-combination-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-basic-student-info
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-courses
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-registrations
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-rosters
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-courserepeats-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Course Repeats API
  description: The CourseRepeats API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for courserepeats.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - CourseRepeats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ucsb-courserepeats-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-curriculums
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-graduate-programs
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-quarter-calendar
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-quarter-calendar
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/barc-students-api
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-clas-schedules
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/classcode-lookup-service
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-chartfield
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/events
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/peoplesoft-fau-functional-accounting-unit-combination-service
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-academic-programs-majors-minors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-basic-student-info
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-courses
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-registrations
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-rosters
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-schedules
- aid: ucsb:ucsb-courses-api
  name: University of California, Santa Barbara Courses API
  description: The Courses API from University of California, Santa Barbara — 1 operation(s) for courses.
  humanURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  baseURL: https://developer.ucsb.edu/
  tags:
  - Courses
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    url: openapi/ucsb-courses-api-openapi.yml
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/academic-graduate-programs
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/employee-job
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    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/grad-application-verifications
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/mtd-access


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