# University of Amsterdam

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-amsterdam/  
**Website:** https://www.uva.nl/en  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 44.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+5.1 from 39.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 85.2 |
| Contract Quality | 56.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 42.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | yes |

## Access

No public API programme · institutional key on request — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **UvA/HvA AI Gateway** — 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...
- **UvA Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / SURFconext)** — 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 API** — 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...
- **UvA Library Linked Open Data (TriplyDB tenancy)** — 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 OAI-PMH and Pure Web Service (Elsevier Pure tenancy)** — 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...
- **UvA Archives Collection Descriptions OAI-PMH (ArchivesSpace tenancy)** — OAI-PMH provider exposing EAD collection descriptions and inventories from the University of Amsterdam Library archives and the Allard Pierson heritage collections, under PDDL. ...
- **UvA Central Catalogue OAI-PMH (Ex Libris Alma tenancy)** — 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...
- **UvA/HvA Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)** — 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...
- **UvA Timetable API (MyTimetable tenancy)** — 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...

## Security (2)

- **University Of Amsterdam Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **University Of Amsterdam Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Amsterdam Plans Pricing**

## 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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-amsterdam/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.