University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ranked #67 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer/API footprint is modest and decentralized: the central api.ualberta.ca site is a placeholder noting that the institution is "currently working to improve the way data is cataloged, shared, and governed," with no self-service developer portal yet. The strongest confirmed programmatic access is research data via the Borealis (Canadian Dataverse) repository, which exposes the University of Alberta research data collection through a REST Native/Search API and an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint. The University of Alberta Library also maintains an active open-source GitHub organization (ualbertalib). Course catalogue and Bear Tracks remain web-only with no official public API.

University of Alberta publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Info API and Search API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, and Open Data.

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

University of Alberta’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, and 9 more developer resources.

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37.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Education Higher Education University Research Data Open Data Library Canada

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 37.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 4

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Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Alberta Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 2

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

Examples 2

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AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Placeholder / pre-launch API site

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

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AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

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GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

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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

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: university-of-alberta
name: University of Alberta
description: 'The University of Alberta is a public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ranked #67 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer/API footprint is modest and decentralized: the central
  api.ualberta.ca site is a placeholder noting that the institution is "currently working to improve the way data is cataloged,
  shared, and governed," with no self-service developer portal yet. The strongest confirmed programmatic access is research
  data via the Borealis (Canadian Dataverse) repository, which exposes the University of Alberta research data collection
  through a REST Native/Search API and an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint. The University of Alberta Library also maintains an active
  open-source GitHub organization (ualbertalib). Course catalogue and Bear Tracks remain web-only with no official public
  API.'
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/university-of-alberta.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-alberta/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Data
- Library
- Canada
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-alberta:borealis-oai-pmh
  name: University of Alberta Borealis OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
  description: Published University of Alberta collections and datasets on Borealis are harvestable via the Open Archives
    Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), allowing other repositories and discovery systems to harvest dataset
    metadata. The Identify verb resolves live at the Borealis OAI endpoint.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html
- aid: university-of-alberta:university-of-alberta-info-api
  name: University of Alberta Info API
  description: The Info API from University of Alberta — 1 operation(s) for info.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/ualberta
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  tags:
  - Info
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-alberta-info-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/search.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/getting-started.html
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/university-of-alberta-search-item-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-alberta-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-alberta-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-alberta-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-alberta:university-of-alberta-search-api
  name: University of Alberta Search API
  description: The Search API from University of Alberta — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/ualberta
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-alberta-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/search.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/getting-started.html
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/university-of-alberta-search-item-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-alberta-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-alberta-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-alberta-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-alberta:library-open-source
  name: University of Alberta Library Open Source (GitHub)
  description: The University of Alberta Library publishes open-source code through its GitHub organization (ualbertalib),
    including tools that interact with repository and digital-asset platform APIs (for example DSpace API tooling and AVP
    Aviary API interaction scripts). This is source code and tooling rather than a single hosted public API, but it documents
    the library's programmatic integrations.
  humanURL: https://github.com/ualbertalib
  tags:
  - Library
  - Open-Source
  - Repository
  - Tooling
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - Open Source
  - Repository
  - Tooling
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.library.ualberta.ca/about/open-data
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ualbertalib
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/university-of-alberta-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-alberta-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-alberta-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ualberta.ca/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.ualberta.ca/
  title: Placeholder / pre-launch API site
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ualbertalib
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-alberta/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-alberta-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-alberta-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-alberta-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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