University of Basel

The University of Basel (Universität Basel) is the oldest university in Switzerland, founded in 1460, and is ranked #85 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in scholarly and research infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal. The university operates "edoc", its open-access institutional repository running DSpace-CRIS 7.6.2, which exposes a public DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata interface. The Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH), hosted at the University of Basel, develops and operates the DSP-API, an open-source RDF-based humanities research data API. Library discovery is delivered through the SLSP swisscovery (Alma/Primo) platform, which offers a standards-based SRU search interface for the Basel institution zone. Source code is published across multiple verified GitHub organizations including IT Services (ITS-Unibas) and DaSCH (dasch-swiss).

University of Basel publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Admin API API, API v2 API, API v3 API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Switzerland, and Research Data.

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

University of Basel’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, and 10 more developer resources.

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41.8/100 thin ▼ -5.2 Agent 44/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

9 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversitySwitzerlandResearch DataOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryLibraryDigital Humanities

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 41.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 0 / 4

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Basel Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 3

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

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

SourceCode

SourceCode

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

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

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: university-of-basel
name: University of Basel
description: 'The University of Basel (Universität Basel) is the oldest university in Switzerland, founded in 1460, and is
  ranked #85 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in
  scholarly and research infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal. The university operates "edoc", its
  open-access institutional repository running DSpace-CRIS 7.6.2, which exposes a public DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0
  metadata interface. The Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH), hosted at the University of Basel,
  develops and operates the DSP-API, an open-source RDF-based humanities research data API. Library discovery is delivered
  through the SLSP swisscovery (Alma/Primo) platform, which offers a standards-based SRU search interface for the Basel institution
  zone. Source code is published across multiple verified GitHub organizations including IT Services (ITS-Unibas) and DaSCH
  (dasch-swiss).'
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-basel.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-basel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Switzerland
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Library
- Digital Humanities
apis:
- aid: university-of-basel:edoc-rest
  name: edoc DSpace REST API
  description: Public DSpace REST API for "edoc", the open-access institutional repository of the University of Basel, running
    DSpace-CRIS 7.6.2. The API root reports the repository name and server endpoints and exposes items, collections, communities,
    and metadata. Verified live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - Research Data
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
- aid: university-of-basel:edoc-oai
  name: edoc OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Basel edoc repository. The Identify verb reports
    repositoryName "edoc: Open Access Repository University of Basel" and adminEmail openaccess@unibas.ch. Includes an OpenAIRE-CRIS
    metadata stream. Verified live (HTTP 200).'
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
- aid: university-of-basel:dsp-api
  name: DaSCH DSP-API
  description: The DaSCH Service Platform API (DSP-API, formerly Knora), an open-source HTTP API for long-term preservation,
    querying, annotation and linking of humanities research data as RDF graphs, with the Gravsearch search language. Developed
    and operated by the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) at the University of Basel. Public
    documentation, open-source code on GitHub, and a live service endpoint (HTTP 405 on GET to the v2 ontologies path confirms
    the endpoint exists).
  humanURL: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
  baseURL: https://api.dasch.swiss
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Digital Humanities
  - RDF
  - Linked Data
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/dasch-swiss/dsp-api
- aid: university-of-basel:swisscovery-sru
  name: swisscovery (SLSP Alma) SRU
  description: Standards-based SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) interface to the SLSP swisscovery / Alma discovery system for
    the University of Basel institution zone (41SLSP_UBS). Allows programmatic search and retrieval of library catalogue records
    for the Basel library network. Verified live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/basel-library-network/
  baseURL: https://swisscovery.slsp.ch/view/sru/41SLSP_UBS
  tags:
  - Library
  - Catalogue
  - SRU
  - Discovery
  - Alma
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/search-find/library-catalogues/swisscovery-registration-and-help/
- aid: university-of-basel:university-of-basel-admin-api-api
  name: University of Basel Admin API API
  description: The Admin API API from University of Basel — 66 operation(s) for admin api.
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Admin API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-basel-admin-api-api-openapi.yml
- aid: university-of-basel:university-of-basel-api-v2-api
  name: University of Basel API v2 API
  description: The API v2 API from University of Basel — 56 operation(s) for api v2.
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - API v2
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-basel-api-v2-api-openapi.yml
- aid: university-of-basel:university-of-basel-api-v3-api
  name: University of Basel API v3 API
  description: The API v3 API from University of Basel — 10 operation(s) for api v3.
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - API v3
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-basel-api-v3-api-openapi.yml
- aid: university-of-basel:university-of-basel-management-api-api
  name: University of Basel Management API API
  description: The Management API API from University of Basel — 3 operation(s) for management api.
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Management API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-basel-management-api-api-openapi.yml
- aid: university-of-basel:university-of-basel-ontology-mappings-api
  name: University of Basel Ontology Mappings API
  description: The Ontology Mappings API from University of Basel — 2 operation(s) for ontology mappings.
  humanURL: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/services/dh-digital-services/edoc/
  baseURL: https://edoc.unibas.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Ontology Mappings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-basel-ontology-mappings-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/university-of-basel-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-basel-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-basel-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unibas.ch/en
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.dasch.swiss/latest/DSP-API/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ITS-Unibas
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/dasch-swiss
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-basel/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-basel-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-basel-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-basel-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com