University of Adelaide

aid: university-of-adelaide
name: University of Adelaide
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Adelaide is a public research university in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1874 and
  a member of the Group of Eight. Since January 2026 it has been superseded by Adelaide University, the merged institution
  formed with the University of South Australia: ROR records the University of Adelaide (https://ror.org/00892tw58) as inactive
  with successor Adelaide University (https://ror.org/028g18b61), adelaide.edu.au now serves the merged institution, and its
  DataCite and Australian Access Federation records both read "Adelaide University". It operates no public developer program.
  A full crawl of the 10,326-URL adelaide.edu.au sitemap on 2026-08-30 returned no developer portal, no API reference, no
  open-data portal, and no OpenAPI under any path. Its genuinely institution-operated machine-readable surfaces are three:
  the DSpace 7.6.1 "Adelaide Research & Scholarship" repository at digital.library.adelaide.edu.au, which serves a keyless
  HAL/JSON REST API and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint under the institution''s own Handle prefix 2440; and the institution''s
  Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider at au-idp.adelaide.edu.au, registered in the Australian Access Federation and scoped
  to adelaide.edu.au. Everything else that looks like an Adelaide API is a vendor contract running under an Adelaide name:
  adelaide.figshare.com is a Figshare tenancy, myuni.adelaide.edu.au is an Instructure Canvas tenancy exposing LTI 1.3 and
  OIDC discovery, and access.adelaide.edu.au is a PeopleSoft student system behind Okta SSO. This profile is deliberately
  thin because the footprint is thin.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Institution-operated repository and identity endpoints · no commercial API product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open repository and harvesting endpoints · no signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-adelaide.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-adelaide/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Australia
- Group of Eight
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- Metadata
- Course Catalog
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
x-ror: https://ror.org/00892tw58
x-ror-successor: https://ror.org/028g18b61
x-handle-prefix: '2440'
x-datacite-provider: adelaide
artifacts:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-adelaide-education-standards.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-adelaide-authentication.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-adelaide-vocabulary.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-adelaide-examples.yml
x-enrichment:
  pipeline: pipeline-university.md
  run: '2026-08-30'
  note: Re-profiled under the operator axis. The June 2026 profile credited this institution with ten OpenAPI definitions
    and eleven apis[] entries — altmetric, articles, authors, collections, institutions, oauth, other, profiles, projects,
    symplectic — plus twenty Postman and OpenCollection files, two JSON Schemas, two JSON Structures, two examples, two Spectral
    rulesets, a vocabulary, a JSON-LD context, an authentication profile, an OAuth scope list, an agentic-access profile covering
    157 operations, and a capability map. Every one of them derived from a single Figshare contract — info.title "Figshare
    API", contact "Figshare Support", servers[0] https://api.figshare.com/v2 — that eleven other institutions in this cohort
    ship verbatim. 47 files were removed. Adelaide's Figshare deployment itself is kept, correctly labelled as a tenant relationship.
    Four artifacts were rebuilt from live probes of the institution's own hosts. Expect this repo's score to fall; the previous
    number was Figshare's engineering, not Adelaide's.
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Adelaide''s institution-owned programmable surface was fully probed and it is small: the DSpace REST root and the
    OAI-PMH Identify verb both answer 200 from digital.library.adelaide.edu.au, and the Shibboleth IdP serves valid SAML 2.0
    metadata from au-idp.adelaide.edu.au. Three tenant relationships are recorded as tenants rather than as Adelaide contracts.
    Four things could not be resolved and are named rather than assumed: (1) a 10,326-URL sitemap crawl of adelaide.edu.au
    found no developer portal, API reference, OpenAPI or open-data portal, and llms.txt and .well-known/security.txt both
    404 — the absence is measured, not inferred; (2) the Research GitLab at git.adelaide.edu.au is registered as a service
    provider in the Australian Access Federation and resolves to a campus address (129.127.149.192) but does not answer on
    443 from this network, so it is a real institutional service that is not publicly callable and is not credited as a surface;
    (3) the research-computing and HPC pages under adelaide.edu.au/technology/research/ now 302 into a ServiceNow employee
    portal at serviceshub.adelaide.edu.au that returns a 1,447-byte JavaScript shell — a soft-200, not a document, and not
    credited; (4) adelaide.figshare.com answers 202 with an empty body to every request from this network, a bot challenge
    rather than a dead host, so the tenancy is recorded as live-but-unreadable and its contract is deliberately not stored
    here.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://au-idp.adelaide.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/adelaide
    status: 200
  - url: https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/api/lti/security/jwks
    status: 200
  - url: https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/api/v1/accounts
    status: 401
  - url: https://adelaide.edu.au/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://adelaide.edu.au/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://adelaide.edu.au/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://adelaide.figshare.com/
    status: 202
  - url: https://git.adelaide.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://serviceshub.adelaide.edu.au/esc
    status: 200
  - url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/api/integration/externalsources?size=50
    status: 200
apis:
- aid: university-of-adelaide:dspace-rest
  name: Adelaide Research & Scholarship REST API
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'DSpace 7.6.1 HAL/JSON REST API for the University of Adelaide institutional repository "Adelaide Research
    & Scholarship", exposing communities, collections, items, bundles, bitstreams, discovery search, identifiers and versioning
    for theses, articles and other scholarly outputs. Confirmed live 2026-08-30: the root document returns dspaceName "Adelaide
    Research & Scholarship", dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.1" and 60 link relations, and read access requires no credentials.
    DSpace is open-source software from LYRASIS, deployed and operated by the University on its own host rather than consumed
    as a hosted service, so both the host and the operation are Adelaide''s. No Adelaide-specific OpenAPI is published for
    it and none is generated here — the DSpace REST contract belongs to the DSpace project.'
  humanURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Scholarly
  - Library
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/api
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-adelaide-dspace-rest-root-response.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-adelaide-vocabulary.yml
- aid: university-of-adelaide:dspace-oai-pmh
  name: Adelaide Research & Scholarship OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "Adelaide Research & Scholarship" repository, on the same
    institution-operated host. Confirmed live 2026-08-30: Identify returns repositoryName "Adelaide Research & Scholarship",
    adminEmail digital-library@adelaide.edu.au, earliestDatestamp 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ,
    deletedRecord transient, and repositoryIdentifier digital.library.adelaide.edu.au with sample identifier oai:digital.library.adelaide.edu.au:2440/1234
    under the University''s own Handle prefix. This is the institution answering for itself, and it is the strongest domain-standard
    conformance in this repo.'
  humanURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Library
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/oai/request
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-adelaide-oai-pmh-identify-response.xml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-adelaide-education-standards.yml
- aid: university-of-adelaide:saml-idp
  name: Adelaide University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'The institution''s own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, serving machine-readable EntityDescriptor metadata
    from its own host. Confirmed live 2026-08-30: entityID urn:mace:federation.org.au:testfed:au-idp.adelaide.edu.au, shibmd:Scope
    adelaide.edu.au, signing certificate CN=au-idp.adelaide.edu.au, with HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST and POST-SimpleSign SSO
    bindings. Registered in the Australian Access Federation production aggregate (registrationAuthority https://aaf.edu.au)
    as "Adelaide University Identity Provider", alongside three Adelaide-operated service providers — the ChatMate AI platform,
    the Research GitLab, and the CAUDIT benchmarking system. Identity federation is institution-operated by definition and
    is the class this cohort most often fails to record.'
  humanURL: https://md.aaf.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://au-idp.adelaide.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - eduGAIN
  - AAF
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://au-idp.adelaide.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-adelaide-saml-idp-metadata.xml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-adelaide-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-adelaide-education-standards.yml
- aid: university-of-adelaide:figshare-tenancy
  name: Adelaide Figshare Research Data Repository — Adelaide tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'The University''s research-data repository runs on Figshare at the institution-specific host adelaide.figshare.com.
    The DATA, the DOIs and the curation are Adelaide''s; the CONTRACT, the object model and the engineering are Figshare''s.
    This is the relationship the June 2026 profile got wrong: it stored Figshare''s generic api.figshare.com/v2 OpenAPI in
    this repo and split it into ten per-tag definitions and eleven apis[] entries, giving one vendor contract eleven times
    the apparent footprint — and eleven other institutions in this cohort shipped the identical document. Those artifacts
    have been removed. Probed 2026-08-30: adelaide.figshare.com answers 202 with an empty body, a bot challenge from Figshare''s
    edge rather than a dead host, so the tenancy is live but not readable from this network. Figshare''s contract is deliberately
    NOT stored here; it belongs to Figshare''s own profile.'
  humanURL: https://adelaide.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://adelaide.figshare.com/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Figshare
  - Tenant
  - DataCite
  - Bot Blocked
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://adelaide.edu.au/research/
- aid: university-of-adelaide:myuni-canvas
  name: MyUni Learning Management System (Instructure Canvas) — Adelaide tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'The University''s LMS runs on Instructure Canvas at myuni.adelaide.edu.au. The tenancy, roster and course
    content are Adelaide''s; the API contract is Instructure''s. It is recorded because it carries the only LTI conformance
    in this repo and it is genuinely machine-readable without credentials at two paths. Probed 2026-08-30: /api/lti/security/jwks
    returns an RSA JWKS (200), /.well-known/openid-configuration returns an OIDC discovery document declaring issuer https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au
    (200), /api/lti/courses/1/line_items returns 401 rather than 404, and the Canvas REST API returns 401 {"status":"unauthenticated"}
    on /api/v1/accounts, /api/v1/courses and /api/v1/users/self. The bare /api/v1 root 404s, as Canvas does on every deployment;
    the baseURL below records the base, not a callable document. Developer keys are issued only by institutional administrators.
    Canvas''s contract is not stored here.'
  humanURL: https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/api/v1
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - Canvas
  - Instructure
  - LTI
  - OpenID Connect
  - Tenant
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-adelaide-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-adelaide-education-standards.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/universityofadelaide
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/uniofadelaide/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://adelaide.figshare.com/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/library/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/study/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://au-idp.adelaide.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/about/support/technology/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/about/policies/academic-integrity-policy/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/about/policies/cyber-security-policy/
- type: AITooling
  url: https://app.chatmate.adelaide.edu.au/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://login.adelaide.edu.au/cas/login
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-adelaide-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-adelaide-education-standards.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-adelaide-vocabulary.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-adelaide-examples.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/about/policies/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/about/disclaimer/
- type: Blog
  url: https://adelaide.edu.au/about/news/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-adelaide-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-adelaide-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-adelaide-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-adelaide-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com