University of Antwerp

aid: university-of-antwerp
name: University of Antwerp
description: 'The University of Antwerp (Universiteit Antwerpen) is a public research university in Antwerp, Belgium. Unusually
  for this cohort it is a producer as well as a buyer: the library and archive department builds Wander — the platform that
  began in 1998 as Brocade — and hosts it on the university''s own infrastructure, so a vendor-looking domain (go.wander.be)
  resolves to 143.169.239.17 inside inetnum 143.169.0.0/16, netname UA, org "Universiteit Antwerpen" (RIPE). Other Flemish
  institutions are its tenants, not the other way round. Two institution-operated machine-readable surfaces were verified
  live in September 2026, both in that same address space. The Institutional Repository University of Antwerp (IRUA) serves
  a complete OAI-PMH 2.0 interface at repository.uantwerpen.be with six metadata formats (including CERIF 1.5, MARC 21 and
  Flemish VABB-SHW and FWO MODS profiles), four harvesting sets, ORCID iDs usable as set specifications, and deletedRecord=persistent.
  The Shibboleth identity provider publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at the legacy entityID https://idpx.ua.ac.be/idp/shibboleth,
  registered in the Belnet R&E Federation since 2012 and interfederated into eduGAIN; it is the strongest contract in this
  profile, it is institution-run on institution hardware, and the June 2026 pass missed it entirely. What the university does
  NOT operate is equally clear and is stated rather than padded: there is no developer portal, no API key programme, no open
  data portal (data.uantwerpen.be and api.uantwerpen.be do not resolve), no OpenAPI or AsyncAPI of its own, and no machine-readable
  course catalog — the programme catalog is HTML only. The learning management system is Anthology''s Blackboard running as
  a tenant on blackboard.uantwerpen.be, whose REST API answers on the university''s hostname but is Anthology''s contract,
  not the university''s. DOIs are registered through Crossref (member 29262); there is no DataCite membership.'
type: Index
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
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: institutional
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free · Anonymous metadata harvesting; everything else behind institutional SSO
  confidence: high
  source:
  - authentication
  - identity-federation
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-antwerp.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-antwerp/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Belgium
- Europe
- Flanders
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Library
- Research Repository
- Research Computing
- Learning Management
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-antwerp:irua-oai-pmh
  name: IRUA OAI-PMH Metadata Interface
  description: 'Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 interface for the Institutional Repository University
    of Antwerp (IRUA). Verified live on 2026-09-01: Identify returns repositoryName "Institutional Repository University of
    Antwerp (IRUA)", protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2002-12-31, deletedRecord persistent, granularity YYYY-MM-DD.
    ListMetadataFormats advertises six prefixes (oai_dc, marc21, catxml, vabbmods, fwomods, cerif); ListSets advertises four
    sets, two of them parameterised templates that make an ORCID iD or a free-text query a valid harvesting scope; ListRecords
    on the OpenAIRE set returned 2,826,135 bytes of real records; GetRecord returns Dublin Core with COAR/OpenAIRE access-rights
    vocabulary, a DOI, a Handle under prefix 10067 and a direct fulltext URL. Errors are returned as HTTP 200 with an <error>
    element. The university publishes no specification for this endpoint; the OpenAPI here is ours, marked derived.'
  humanURL: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/library/research/academic-bibliography/
  baseURL: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/oai/abua/
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-antwerp-irua-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-antwerp-irua-oai-pmh-examples.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-antwerp-irua-metadata-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/university-of-antwerp-irua-oai-sets.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-antwerp-irua-oai-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-antwerp-irua-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-antwerp-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-antwerp-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'repository.uantwerpen.be is under the institution''s own registrable domain and resolves via moto.cde.uantwerpen.be
    to 143.169.239.17, inside inetnum 143.169.0.0 - 143.169.255.255, netname UA, org ORG-UA448-RIPE "Universiteit Antwerpen",
    Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen (RIPE, mnt-by BELNET-MNT). Not a vendor tenancy: the Brocade/Wander repository software
    underneath is the university library''s own, hosted on the same address.'
- aid: university-of-antwerp:idp
  name: University of Antwerp Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML 2.0)
  description: 'The university''s federated login, published as a SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://idpx.ua.ac.be/idp/shibboleth
    (HTTP 200, application/xml, 16,305 bytes). Declares four SingleSignOnService bindings, eight KeyDescriptors, a SAML 1.1/2.0
    attribute authority over SOAP, shibmd:Scope ua.ac.be, OrganizationName "Universiteit Antwerpen" and mdui:IPHint values
    143.169.0.0/16, 143.129.0.0/16 and 146.175.0.0/16. Registered by the Belnet R&E Federation on 2012-03-27 and interfederated
    into eduGAIN. This is the most complete machine-readable contract the institution publishes and it is genuinely its own.
    The entityID still carries the pre-2011 domain ua.ac.be while every service endpoint points at idpx.uantwerpen.be — a
    legacy entityID is a permanent name, not a stale pointer, and a host-matching audit will miss this surface because of
    it. One defect observed: the standalone document is not well-formed as served, using the mdrpi: prefix without declaring
    it.'
  humanURL: https://idpx.ua.ac.be/idp/shibboleth
  baseURL: https://idpx.uantwerpen.be/idp/
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - eduGAIN
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: identity-federation/university-of-antwerp-identity-federation.yml
  - type: Metadata
    url: identity-federation/university-of-antwerp-idp-saml-metadata.xml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-antwerp-conformance.yml
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: idpx.ua.ac.be and idpx.uantwerpen.be both CNAME to idp.uantwerpen.be and resolve to 143.169.245.77, inside
    the university's own RIPE allocation (143.169.0.0/16, netname UA, org "Universiteit Antwerpen"). No CNAME off institution
    infrastructure and no managed-IdP pattern of the AAF Rapid IdP kind that made Monash's IdP a tenant. The metadata's own
    mdui:IPHint declares the same netblock, and the SSO endpoint serves a branded "Universiteit Antwerpen Login Service" page
    from that host.
- aid: university-of-antwerp:belnet-federation
  name: Belnet R&E Federation membership
  description: 'The Belgian national research and education identity federation, operated by Belnet, in which the university''s
    identity provider is registered. The registration is asserted inside the university''s own metadata: registrationAuthority
    http://federation.belnet.be/, registrationInstant 2012-03-27T12:00:00Z, registration policy http://federation.belnet.be/files/Belnet-metadata-registration-practice-statement.txt.
    Belnet interfederates into eduGAIN. Recorded as a membership, never as a contract of the university''s — a federation
    is shared by definition, and the identity provider behind it is theirs.'
  humanURL: https://belnet.be/en/services/identity-mobility-federation/belnet-re-federation
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - eduGAIN
  - Belgium
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: identity-federation/university-of-antwerp-identity-federation.yml
  x-operator: federation
  x-operator-basis: Belnet operates the federation and the registration authority; the University of Antwerp operates the
    identity provider registered inside it. Shared by design, not by misattribution.
- aid: university-of-antwerp:brocade
  name: Wander (formerly Brocade) — library platform built by UAntwerpen Library & Archive
  description: 'Wander is the integrated library, collection and research-information platform the University of Antwerp Library
    & Archive has built since 1998, when it was called Brocade and the department was called Anet. It rebranded to Wander
    during 2026 — anet.be now redirects to www.wander.be — and is offered to universities, archives, museums and heritage
    institutions across Flanders as WanderCollections, WanderResearch, WanderReservations and Impala. The application runs
    at go.wander.be, with anet.uantwerpen.be and repository.uantwerpen.be as institution-branded entrances onto the same host.
    There is no public self-service REST API and no published specification; the machine-readable surface it exposes is the
    OAI-PMH interface catalogued separately above. Open-source components are published through the anet-be GitHub organisation.
    This entry is the reason this profile is not a normal university profile: it is the institution as software vendor, and
    other institutions in this cohort are its tenants.'
  humanURL: https://www.wander.be/en
  baseURL: https://go.wander.be/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Brocade
  - Wander
  - Anet
  - Open-Source
  - Collection Management
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - Brocade
  - Wander
  - Anet
  - Open Source
  - Collection Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.wander.be/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/anet-be
  - type: LibraryCatalog
    url: https://anet.uantwerpen.be/desktop/uantwerpen/opacuantwerpen/E
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: A vendor-looking domain that resolves into the institution's own address space — the inverse of this pipeline's
    usual finding. go.wander.be resolves to 143.169.239.17, the same University of Antwerp RIPE allocation (netname UA, org
    "Universiteit Antwerpen") that serves repository.uantwerpen.be and anet.uantwerpen.be; all three are the same host, moto.cde.uantwerpen.be.
    The Wander contact address is "Wander, Bibliotheek & Archief UAntwerpen, Stadscampus, Venusstraat 35, 3e verdieping, 2000
    Antwerpen" and the site's social link is the UAntwerpen Bibliotheek & Archief LinkedIn page. Only the marketing site www.wander.be
    is outsourced, to Webflow. Software the institution writes and hosts.
- aid: university-of-antwerp:blackboard
  name: Blackboard Learn (Anthology) — tenant
  description: The university's learning management system, running as an Anthology-hosted tenant on the institution hostname
    blackboard.uantwerpen.be. Anthology's Blackboard Learn REST API answers there — /learn/api/public/v1/system/version returned
    HTTP 200 with {"learn":{"major":4000,"minor":21,"patch":0,"build":"rel.28+435d029"}}, and /learn/api/public/v1/courses
    returned HTTP 401 "API request is not authenticated." The tenancy is a real institutional fact and is recorded; the contract,
    the OAuth server and the engineering are Anthology's, so no Blackboard specification is saved under this institution and
    no LTI or Caliper conformance is credited to it.
  humanURL: https://blackboard.uantwerpen.be/
  baseURL: https://blackboard.uantwerpen.be/learn/api/public/v1/
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - Blackboard
  - Anthology
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-antwerp-authentication.yml
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: CNAME tenancy on an institution hostname. blackboard.uantwerpen.be CNAMEs to uantwerpen-livemig.blackboard.com,
    then to learn-prod-60caf1f508643-81972277.eu-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com, resolving to 52.58.189.128 / 54.93.54.199 —
    Amazon Technologies Inc. (AT-88-Z), eu-central-1. The "livemig" and per-tenant ELB naming is Anthology's managed SaaS
    pattern. University's data, university's hostname, Anthology's platform.
- aid: university-of-antwerp:vsc
  name: Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) participation
  description: The university is one of the five Flemish university partners in the Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum and operates
    the CalcUA tier-2 cluster locally. The shared account and allocation portal at account.vscentrum.be redirects to a Shibboleth
    discovery service whose institution list includes "Universiteit Antwerpen" against entityID https://idpx.ua.ac.be/idp/shibboleth
    — which is how that entityID was recovered. The portal itself is not a University of Antwerp surface, so it is recorded
    as a participation, not credited as an institution contract. No public API or specification is published for either the
    portal or CalcUA.
  humanURL: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-facilities/calcua/
  baseURL: https://account.vscentrum.be/
  tags:
  - Research Computing
  - HPC
  - Consortium
  - Identity Federation
  properties:
  - type: ResearchComputing
    url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-facilities/calcua/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vscentrum.be/
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: account.vscentrum.be CNAMEs through accvsc.ugent.be to 157.193.43.57, netname RUGNET1, org-name "Universiteit
    Gent" — the consortium portal is operated by Ghent University on behalf of the five partners. The University of Antwerp
    authenticates into it with its own IdP; it does not run it.
- aid: university-of-antwerp:crossref
  name: Crossref membership
  description: 'The university is Crossref member 29262 "University of Antwerp", holding DOI prefixes 10.52034 and 10.63028
    with 565 registered DOIs (37 current, 528 backfile) as of the 2026 status check returned by https://api.crossref.org/members?query=antwerp.
    This is a registry membership — a fact about the institution — and Crossref''s own API is never saved as the institution''s
    contract. The corresponding DataCite check is negative: both api.datacite.org/providers and /clients return zero results
    for Antwerp.'
  humanURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/29262
  tags:
  - DOI
  - Crossref
  - Scholarly Infrastructure
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-antwerp-conformance.yml
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-basis: api.crossref.org is an identifier registry the institution is registered IN, shared by every Crossref
    member. Membership recorded; registry contract not saved.
- aid: university-of-antwerp:ror
  name: ROR registration
  description: Research Organization Registry identifier https://ror.org/008x57b05, resolved live from https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations.
    Declares domain uantwerpen.be, established 2003, location Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, and cross-identifiers GRID grid.5284.b,
    ISNI 0000 0001 0790 3681, Wikidata Q175241 and Crossref Funder ID 501100007660. The ROR record is the machine-readable
    anchor that ties every other surface in this profile to one legal entity.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/008x57b05
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Organization Identifier
  - ROR
  - Scholarly Infrastructure
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://ror.org/008x57b05
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-basis: ror.org is an organization identifier registry the institution is registered IN. Shared by every registered
    organization; the registration is theirs, the registry is not.
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: identity-federation/university-of-antwerp-identity-federation.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-antwerp-conformance.yml
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://anet.uantwerpen.be/desktop/uantwerpen/opacuantwerpen/E
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/study/programmes/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-facilities/calcua/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research/policy/ethics-integrity/artificial-intelligence/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-antwerp-authentication.yml
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/anet-be
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/anet-be
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/organisation/information-security-and-privacy/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/organisation/information-security-and-privacy/privacy-policy/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/news/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-antwerp/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/uantwerpen
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/UAntwerpen
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-antwerp-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-antwerp-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-antwerp-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-antwerp-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Two institution-operated machine-readable surfaces confirmed live and confirmed institution-owned by IP, not by
    hostname: the IRUA OAI-PMH interface at repository.uantwerpen.be and the Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at idpx.ua.ac.be,
    both resolving into inetnum 143.169.0.0/16, netname UA, org "Universiteit Antwerpen" (RIPE). Neither is published by the
    university as a specification — the OpenAPI in this repo is ours and is marked derived — but both answer real machine-readable
    contracts, which is more than most of this cohort has. Four education-regime standards are evidenced from those two surfaces
    (oai-pmh, saml, shibboleth, orcid) plus a Crossref membership; DataCite is a confirmed negative. The June 2026 pass missed
    the identity provider entirely, because its entityID carries the university''s pre-2011 domain ua.ac.be and no host-matching
    audit against uantwerpen.be can see it. It also described the library platform as documentation behind a URL that now
    404s: Anet/Brocade rebranded to Wander during 2026, and the correction that matters is that go.wander.be resolves into
    the university''s own address space, making this institution a producer of library software whose customers are other
    institutions in this cohort. What is genuinely absent is stated rather than padded. No developer portal, no API key programme,
    no OpenAPI or AsyncAPI published by the university, no open data portal, no machine-readable course catalog, no llms.txt
    and no security.txt. data.uantwerpen.be, api.uantwerpen.be and sisa.uantwerpen.be do not resolve at all. The learning
    management system is Anthology''s Blackboard on a CNAME tenancy and its REST API, live on a uantwerpen.be hostname, is
    deliberately not credited here.'
  assessed: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/oai/abua/?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/oai/abua/?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/oai/abua/?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/oai/abua/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=set:irua:openaire
    status: 200
  - url: https://idpx.ua.ac.be/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://account.vscentrum.be/
    status: 200
  - url: https://go.wander.be/
    status: 200
  - url: https://anet.uantwerpen.be/desktop/uantwerpen/opacuantwerpen/E
    status: 200
  - url: https://blackboard.uantwerpen.be/learn/api/public/v1/system/version
    status: 200
  - url: https://blackboard.uantwerpen.be/learn/api/public/v1/courses
    status: 401
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=antwerp
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations?query=University+of+Antwerp
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=antwerp
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research/policy/ethics-integrity/artificial-intelligence/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/projecten/anet/brocade/
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://data.uantwerpen.be/
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.uantwerpen.be/
    status: 0
  - url: https://sisa.uantwerpen.be/
    status: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com