University of Calgary

aid: university-of-calgary
name: University of Calgary
description: 'The University of Calgary is a public research university in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ranked #198 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint centers on research and scholarly infrastructure
  rather than a single central developer portal: the Space Remote Sensing (SRS) group operates a documented RESTful API at
  api.phys.ucalgary.ca and the related AuroraX auroral-science API at api.aurorax.space, with Python and IDL client libraries.
  The institutional repository PRISM runs on DSpace 8.3 (REST API plus OAI-PMH) and the PRISM research-data repository is
  hosted on the Borealis Dataverse platform, which exposes a public Dataverse REST API. The university also maintains a GitHub
  organization and a library guide cataloging third-party scholarly APIs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-calgary/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Repository
- Space Physics
- Canada
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-calgary:srs-api
  name: UCalgary Space Remote Sensing API
  description: RESTful API from the University of Calgary Space Remote Sensing group for accessing space physics and remote-sensing
    data (all-sky imagers, riometers, and related instruments). Usable directly over HTTP or via the pyucalgarysrs / pyucrio
    Python and IDL client libraries. Interactive Swagger documentation is served at the API root.
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Space Physics
  - Remote Sensing
  - Open Data
  - Research
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-srs-api.yaml
- aid: university-of-calgary:aurorax-api
  name: AuroraX API
  description: Public RESTful API for the AuroraX auroral-science data platform, developed and operated with the University
    of Calgary. Provides search and access to auroral metadata, ephemeris, and imagery data. An API key is only required for
    write operations; read access is open. Python (PyAuroraX) and IDL client libraries are available.
  humanURL: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  baseURL: https://api.aurorax.space/
  tags:
  - Space Physics
  - Aurora
  - Open Data
  - Research
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-aurorax-api.yaml
- aid: university-of-calgary:prism-dspace
  name: PRISM Institutional Repository (DSpace)
  description: PRISM is the University of Calgary's institutional repository, running on DSpace 8.3 (now served from ucalgary.scholaris.ca).
    It exposes the standard DSpace REST API for programmatic access to communities, collections, and items, plus an OAI-PMH
    endpoint for metadata harvesting.
  humanURL: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Scholarly
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-calgary:prism-dataverse
  name: PRISM Research Data Repository (Borealis Dataverse)
  description: The University of Calgary's PRISM research-data repository is a Dataverse collection hosted on the Borealis
    (Canadian Dataverse) platform, exposing the public Dataverse REST API (Borealis runs Dataverse v6.8.1) for searching and
    retrieving dataset and file metadata.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/calgary
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Open Data
  - Dataverse
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/calgary
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ucalgary.ca/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ucalgary
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/ucalgary/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/apis
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-calgary-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-calgary-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-calgary-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-calgary-vocabulary.yml
- type: Rules
  url: rules/university-of-calgary-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/university-of-calgary-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com