The University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam, UvA) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, a LERU member and one of the two large research universities in the city. It operates no central developer portal and issues no public API keys, and the honest shape of its programmable footprint is three institution-run surfaces surrounded by six vendor platforms it is a tenant of. What it genuinely runs itself: a shared AI gateway with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences at llmproxy.uva.nl that serves a full OpenAPI 3.1 description and issues keys to staff, students and developers on request; a SAML 2.0 identity provider whose signed federation metadata is published on its own host and registered in SURFconext and eduGAIN; and the DataNose course and registration API on its own network, whose Swagger UI answers but whose generated description currently returns 500. Everything else that looks like a UvA API is a contract someone else wrote: the library's Linked Open Data platform is a TriplyDB tenancy, the research repository is Figshare, UvA-DARE and its OAI-PMH feed are Elsevier Pure, the archives OAI provider is LYRASIS-hosted ArchivesSpace, the central catalogue OAI endpoint is Ex Libris Alma and now returns 403 to the public, and the timetable API is Eveoh MyTimetable behind SSO. The data in those systems is the university's; the interfaces are not.
University of Amsterdam publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: UvA/HvA AI Gateway. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Public Research University, and Netherlands.
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University of Amsterdam’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 25 more developer resources.
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The shared AI gateway the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences run for their students, staff and developers. It fronts GPT, Claude and open-w...
The university's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entity ID http://login.uva.nl/adfs/services/trust. Signed federation metadata is served from the institution's own host and the ...
DataNose is the course, registration, timetable and thesis-administration system used by the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Science. Its API host resolves into UVANET1, th...
The University of Amsterdam Library publishes its digitised collections — books, letters, maps, images, audio, video, sheet music, archaeological objects and the Beeldbank image...
UvA-DARE, the university's digital academic repository, and the research information system behind it run on Elsevier Pure: pure.uva.nl CNAMEs to uva.elsevierpure.com. The OAI-P...
OAI-PMH provider exposing EAD collection descriptions and inventories from the University of Amsterdam Library archives and the Allard Pierson heritage collections, under PDDL. ...
The harvesting endpoint the university library documents for its central catalogue — roughly 2.5 million bibliographic records in MARC-XML and unqualified Dublin Core. It runs o...
The shared research data repository of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, running on Figshare at uvaauas.figshare.com. DOIs are minted...
The university timetable at rooster.uva.nl exposes a JSON API under /api/ that answers 401 with a structured error to unauthenticated callers, so the surface is real and gated b...
aid: university-of-amsterdam
name: University of Amsterdam
description: 'The University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam, UvA) is a public research university in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, a LERU member and one of the two large research universities in the city. It operates no central developer
portal and issues no public API keys, and the honest shape of its programmable footprint is three institution-run surfaces
surrounded by six vendor platforms it is a tenant of. What it genuinely runs itself: a shared AI gateway with the Amsterdam
University of Applied Sciences at llmproxy.uva.nl that serves a full OpenAPI 3.1 description and issues keys to staff, students
and developers on request; a SAML 2.0 identity provider whose signed federation metadata is published on its own host and
registered in SURFconext and eduGAIN; and the DataNose course and registration API on its own network, whose Swagger UI
answers but whose generated description currently returns 500. Everything else that looks like a UvA API is a contract someone
else wrote: the library''s Linked Open Data platform is a TriplyDB tenancy, the research repository is Figshare, UvA-DARE
and its OAI-PMH feed are Elsevier Pure, the archives OAI provider is LYRASIS-hosted ArchivesSpace, the central catalogue
OAI endpoint is Ex Libris Alma and now returns 403 to the public, and the timetable API is Eveoh MyTimetable behind SSO.
The data in those systems is the university''s; the interfaces are not.'
type: Index
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: request
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: No public API programme · institutional key on request
confidence: high
source:
- authentication/university-of-amsterdam-authentication.yml
- https://github.com/uva/UvA-HvA-Agentic-Tools
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-amsterdam.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Public Research University
- Netherlands
- Europe
- LERU
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- Library
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Course Catalog
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Artificial Intelligence
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
apis:
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:llm-gateway
name: UvA/HvA AI Gateway
description: The shared AI gateway the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences run for
their students, staff and developers. It fronts GPT, Claude and open-weight models behind one institution-issued key on
an OpenAI-compatible surface, and it serves a complete OpenAPI 3.1 description at /openapi.json — 530 paths, 723 operations.
The software is LiteLLM, but the deployment sits on the institution's own Azure estate under uva.nl, the key issuance
is the institution's, and the setup guides are published by the institution's own GitHub organisation. This is the one
contract in this profile that describes something the University of Amsterdam actually operates.
humanURL: https://github.com/uva/UvA-HvA-Agentic-Tools
baseURL: https://llmproxy.uva.nl
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Gateway
- AI Tooling
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-amsterdam-llm-gateway-openapi.json
- type: x-openapi-original
url: openapi/_original/university-of-amsterdam-llm-gateway-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://github.com/uva/UvA-HvA-Agentic-Tools
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-amsterdam-authentication.yml
- type: x-errors
url: errors/university-of-amsterdam-errors.yml
x-operator: institution
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
openapi: 200
health: 200
unauthenticated_call: 401
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:identity-federation
name: UvA Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / SURFconext)
description: The university's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entity ID http://login.uva.nl/adfs/services/trust. Signed
federation metadata is served from the institution's own host and the entity is registered in SURFconext, the Dutch national
identity federation, which participates in eduGAIN. Identity federation is one of the few machine-readable surfaces a
university operates by definition rather than by procurement, and it is almost never catalogued.
humanURL: https://metadata.surfconext.nl/
baseURL: https://login.uva.nl/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- SURFconext
- eduGAIN
- Authentication
properties:
- type: x-metadata
url: https://login.uva.nl/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
- type: x-federation-aggregate
url: https://metadata.surfconext.nl/idps-metadata.xml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/university-of-amsterdam-conformance.yml
x-operator: institution
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
metadata: 200
content_type: application/samlmetadata+xml
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:datanose
name: DataNose API
description: DataNose is the course, registration, timetable and thesis-administration system used by the University of
Amsterdam's Faculty of Science. Its API host resolves into UVANET1, the university's own RIPE allocation, and its Swagger
UI answers 200 — but the Swashbuckle discovery document it points at, /swagger/docs/v1, returns 500, so the machine-readable
description of a genuinely institution-run course surface is currently broken. Recorded because it is real and institution-operated,
and because the broken descriptor is the finding.
humanURL: https://datanose.nl/
baseURL: https://api.datanose.nl
tags:
- Course Catalog
- Registrar
- Timetable
- Student Information
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://api.datanose.nl/swagger/ui/index
- type: Website
url: https://datanose.nl/
x-operator: institution
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
swagger_ui: 200
swagger_docs_v1: 500
root: 403
host_network: 145.18.0.0/16 UVANET1 (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:lod-triply
name: UvA Library Linked Open Data (TriplyDB tenancy)
description: 'The University of Amsterdam Library publishes its digitised collections — books, letters, maps, images, audio,
video, sheet music, archaeological objects and the Beeldbank image repository — as linked open data under PDDL/ODC-BY,
reachable over REST, SPARQL and GraphQL. The data, the UB-UVA account and the licensing are the library''s. The platform
is not: api.lod.uba.uva.nl CNAMEs to uba.cname.triply.cc and the OpenAPI served there is titled "TriplyDB API" with info.contact
pointing at triply.cc. A single vendor contract, split by tag, previously appeared in this profile as fourteen separate
University of Amsterdam APIs. It is recorded here as one tenant relationship, and the contract is left to score against
Triply.'
humanURL: https://lod.uba.uva.nl/
baseURL: https://api.lod.uba.uva.nl/datasets/UB-UVA/
tags:
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- SPARQL
- Library
- Digital Collections
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.triply.cc/triply-api/
- type: Documentation
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
- type: x-licence
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/licences/licences.html
- type: x-example
url: examples/university-of-amsterdam-get-dataset-example.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/university-of-amsterdam-sparql-query-example.json
- type: x-vocabulary
url: vocabulary/university-of-amsterdam-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
url: json-ld/university-of-amsterdam-context.jsonld
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence:
dns: api.lod.uba.uva.nl CNAME uba.cname.triply.cc
contract: info.title "TriplyDB API"; info.contact.name "Triply"; info.contact.url https://triply.cc
vendor_repo: all/triply
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
api_info: 200
portal: 200
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:oai-pure-dare
name: UvA-DARE OAI-PMH and Pure Web Service (Elsevier Pure tenancy)
description: 'UvA-DARE, the university''s digital academic repository, and the research information system behind it run
on Elsevier Pure: pure.uva.nl CNAMEs to uva.elsevierpure.com. The OAI-PMH provider answers Identify with repositoryName
"UvA-DARE" and adminEmail pure@uva.nl over the OpenAIRE CERIF profile 1.2, and the Pure Web Service REST API publishes
its own documentation on the tenant host. Institution''s publications, institution''s administrators, vendor''s interface.'
humanURL: https://dare.uva.nl/
baseURL: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/oai
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Publications
- CRIS
- OpenAIRE
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/api/524/api-docs/
- type: x-oai-identify
url: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/oai?verb=Identify
- type: Website
url: https://dare.uva.nl/
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence:
dns: pure.uva.nl CNAME uva.elsevierpure.com
identify: repositoryName "UvA-DARE", adminEmail pure@uva.nl
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
oai_identify: 200
api_docs: 200
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:oai-archives
name: UvA Archives Collection Descriptions OAI-PMH (ArchivesSpace tenancy)
description: OAI-PMH provider exposing EAD collection descriptions and inventories from the University of Amsterdam Library
archives and the Allard Pierson heritage collections, under PDDL. The host is a UvA subdomain but CNAMEs to as-prod-amsterdam.lyrtech.org
and the Identify response names "ArchivesSpace OAI Provider" with an adminEmail at lyrasistechnology.org, so the software
and the hosting are LYRASIS's.
humanURL: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
baseURL: https://archives.uba.uva.nl/oai
tags:
- Open Data
- Archives
- OAI-PMH
- EAD
- Library
properties:
- type: x-oai-identify
url: https://archives.uba.uva.nl/oai?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence:
dns: archives.uba.uva.nl CNAME as-prod-amsterdam.lyrtech.org
identify: repositoryName "ArchivesSpace OAI Provider"; adminEmail no-reply@uvaerfgoed.lyrasistechnology.org
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
oai_identify: 200
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:oai-catalogue
name: UvA Central Catalogue OAI-PMH (Ex Libris Alma tenancy)
description: The harvesting endpoint the university library documents for its central catalogue — roughly 2.5 million bibliographic
records in MARC-XML and unqualified Dublin Core. It runs on the library's Ex Libris Alma tenancy and, as of 2026-08-19,
returns HTTP 403 with Alma error code 21 ("Unauthorized access to the OAI services") to both scripted and browser user
agents. The host is live; the documented public service is not. Bulk dumps of the same records remain downloadable from
the library's own server, so the data is still open even though the interface is closed.
humanURL: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
baseURL: https://uva.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/31UKB_UAM1_INST/request
tags:
- Library
- Catalog
- OAI-PMH
- MARC
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
x-operator: tenant
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
oai_identify: 403
detail: Alma error_code 21 — unauthorized access to the OAI services
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:research-data-figshare
name: UvA/HvA Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)
description: The shared research data repository of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied
Sciences, running on Figshare at uvaauas.figshare.com. DOIs are minted under the institution's own DataCite prefix 10.21942
— 3,238 DOIs registered, publisher recorded at DataCite as "University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied
Sciences". The previous profile of this institution recorded the generic api.figshare.com host as a UvA API; nineteen
other institutions in this catalog claim the same host. It is Figshare's contract, and it is recorded here as a tenancy
instead.
humanURL: https://uvaauas.figshare.com/
baseURL: https://uvaauas.figshare.com/
tags:
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- DataCite
- DOI
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/university-of-amsterdam-conformance.yml
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence:
datacite_prefix: 10.21942 (DataCite client delft.uva)
vendor_repo: all/figshare
oai_set: portal_201 on api.figshare.com (vendor host, not recorded as a UvA surface)
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
portal: 202
detail: bot challenge, not a failure — host is live
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:timetable
name: UvA Timetable API (MyTimetable tenancy)
description: The university timetable at rooster.uva.nl exposes a JSON API under /api/ that answers 401 with a structured
error to unauthenticated callers, so the surface is real and gated behind institutional sign-in. The host CNAMEs to uva.hosting.eveoh.nl
— it is Eveoh's MyTimetable product, not UvA engineering. Recorded because a timetable API is one of the classes a university
genuinely has, and because it is the only one here.
humanURL: https://rooster.uva.nl/schedule
baseURL: https://rooster.uva.nl/api
tags:
- Timetable
- Course Catalog
- Campus
- Student Information
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://rooster.uva.nl/schedule
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence:
dns: rooster.uva.nl CNAME uva.hosting.eveoh.nl
x-status:
probed: '2026-08-19'
api_root: 401
schedule: 200
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.uva.nl/en
- type: OpenData
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/open-data.html
- type: OpenData
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
- type: Documentation
url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/licences/licences.html
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://dare.uva.nl/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://uvaauas.figshare.com/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://uba.uva.nl/
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://studiegids.uva.nl/
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://datanose.nl/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://login.uva.nl/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/about-the-university/ai/ai.html
- type: AITooling
url: https://github.com/uva/UvA-HvA-Agentic-Tools
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/uva
- type: SecurityTxt
url: https://www.uva.nl/.well-known/security.txt
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.uva.nl/en/home/disclaimers/about-this-site
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.uva.nl/en/home/disclaimers/privacy.html
- type: Support
url: https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/contact-and-locations/contact.html
- type: Blog
url: https://www.uva.nl/en/news-events/news/uva-news.html
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-amsterdam/
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-amsterdam-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/university-of-amsterdam-conformance.yml
- type: x-errors
url: errors/university-of-amsterdam-errors.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
url: vocabulary/university-of-amsterdam-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
url: json-ld/university-of-amsterdam-context.jsonld
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/university-of-amsterdam-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/university-of-amsterdam-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/university-of-amsterdam-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/university-of-amsterdam-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: institution_operated_contract
detail: 'Three institution-operated surfaces were found and verified: the UvA/HvA AI gateway at llmproxy.uva.nl, which serves
a complete OpenAPI 3.1 document and is the only institution-owned contract in this profile; the SAML 2.0 identity provider
at login.uva.nl, registered in SURFconext and eduGAIN; and the DataNose course API on the university''s own network, whose
Swagger UI answers but whose generated description returns 500. Six further surfaces are real but are tenancies on vendor
platforms — TriplyDB, Elsevier Pure, LYRASIS ArchivesSpace, Ex Libris Alma, Figshare and Eveoh MyTimetable — and are recorded
as relationships rather than as UvA contracts. The previous profile credited the institution with fourteen tag-split copies
of Triply''s OpenAPI and with the generic api.figshare.com host that nineteen other institutions in this catalog also
claim; both have been removed. No central developer portal, no public key issuance and no self-serve onboarding exist,
and the profile says so.'
assessed: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
evidence:
- url: https://llmproxy.uva.nl/openapi.json
status: 200
- url: https://llmproxy.uva.nl/v1/models
status: 401
- url: https://login.uva.nl/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
status: 200
- url: https://metadata.surfconext.nl/idps-metadata.xml
status: 200
- url: https://api.datanose.nl/swagger/ui/index
status: 200
- url: https://api.datanose.nl/swagger/docs/v1
status: 500
- url: https://api.lod.uba.uva.nl/info
status: 200
- url: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://archives.uba.uva.nl/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://uva.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/31UKB_UAM1_INST/request?verb=Identify
status: 403
- url: https://uvaauas.figshare.com/
status: 202
- url: https://rooster.uva.nl/api/schedule
status: 401
- url: https://www.uva.nl/.well-known/security.txt
status: 200
- url: https://api.uva.nl/
status: 200
note: not an API — Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy website; excluded
- url: https://www.uva.nl/llms.txt
status: 404
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