# University of Basel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-basel/  
**Website:** https://www.unibas.ch/en  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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).

## Kin Score — 37.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 59.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **edoc DSpace REST API** — 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 s...
- **edoc OAI-PMH** — 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...
- **DaSCH DSP-API** — 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...
- **swisscovery (SLSP Alma) SRU** — 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 program...
- **University of Basel Admin API API** — The Admin API API from University of Basel — 66 operation(s) for admin api.
- **University of Basel API v2 API** — The API v2 API from University of Basel — 56 operation(s) for api v2.
- **University of Basel API v3 API** — The API v3 API from University of Basel — 10 operation(s) for api v3.
- **University of Basel Management API API** — The Management API API from University of Basel — 3 operation(s) for management api.
- **University of Basel Ontology Mappings API** — The Ontology Mappings API from University of Basel — 2 operation(s) for ontology mappings.

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Basel Agentic Access** — 169 operations · 88 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **University Of Basel Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **University Of Basel Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Basel Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Switzerland, Research Data, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Library, Digital Humanities

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