University of Bologna

aid: university-of-bologna
name: University of Bologna
description: 'The University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna) is the oldest university in the Western
  world and a leading Italian research institution, ranked #133 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer
  and API footprint centers on open data and open scholarship rather than a unified developer portal: a CKAN-based open data
  portal at dati.unibo.it exposes a standard CKAN Action API over institutional datasets, and the AlmaDL AMS Acta institutional
  repository (EPrints) exposes an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface. The university also maintains an official open-source
  GitHub organization. Most administrative, course, and identity systems require institutional credentials and are not openly
  documented.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bologna/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Research
- Italy
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-bologna:opendata-ckan
  name: University of Bologna Open Data (CKAN API)
  description: Open data portal for the University of Bologna built on CKAN, exposing the standard CKAN Action API over institutional
    datasets (course catalog, curricula, financial and social reports, organizational data). Returns JSON and was confirmed
    live returning success:true with ~33 datasets.
  humanURL: https://dati.unibo.it/
  baseURL: https://dati.unibo.it/api/3/action/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - CKAN
  - Datasets
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- aid: university-of-bologna:amsacta-oai-pmh
  name: AMS Acta Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH)
  description: AMS Acta is the AlmaDL institutional repository of the University of Bologna, running on EPrints 3.4.x. It
    exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface (Dublin Core), confirmed live via an Identify response. Metadata
    is CC0-licensed and items carry persistent DOIs.
  humanURL: https://amsacta.unibo.it/
  baseURL: https://amsacta.unibo.it/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - EPrints
  - Research
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://amsacta.unibo.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unibo.it/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/unibo
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/unibo/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://dati.unibo.it/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-bologna-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-bologna-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-bologna-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com