University of Calgary

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.

University of Calgary publishes 14 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Application.wadl API, Auroral Transport Model (ATM) API, Authenticate API, and 11 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Data.

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

University of Calgary’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 13 more developer resources.

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43.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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16 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen DataRepositorySpace PhysicsCanada

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Composite quality — 43.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 8.3 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · 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 16

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Calgary 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 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Rules

Rules

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

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 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

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
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
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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: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/
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-application-wadl-api
  name: University of Calgary Application.wadl API
  description: The Application.wadl API from University of Calgary — 2 operation(s) for application.wadl.
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Application.wadl
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-application-wadl-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-auroral-transport-model-atm-api
  name: University of Calgary Auroral Transport Model (ATM) API
  description: Endpoints to utilize the Auroral Transport Model
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Auroral Transport Model (ATM)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-auroral-transport-model-atm-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-authenticate-api
  name: University of Calgary Authenticate API
  description: Authenticate via email and password to get an Access Token. Use your API Key if you  are building software
    without user interaction to run against the API.
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Authenticate
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-authenticate-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-availability-api
  name: University of Calgary Availability API
  description: Retrieve information about data in the database
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Availability
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-availability-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-conjunction-search-api
  name: University of Calgary Conjunction Search API
  description: Search for conjunctions between multiple sets of data sources
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Conjunction Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-conjunction-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-data-distribution-api
  name: University of Calgary Data Distribution API
  description: Endpoints supporting data distribution
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Data Distribution
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-data-distribution-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-data-products-search-api
  name: University of Calgary Data Products Search API
  description: Search for data products
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Data Products Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-data-products-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-data-sources-api
  name: University of Calgary Data Sources API
  description: Interact with data sources
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Data Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-data-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-ephemeris-search-api
  name: University of Calgary Ephemeris Search API
  description: Search ephemeris records
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Ephemeris Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-ephemeris-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-manage-data-api
  name: University of Calgary Manage Data API
  description: Operations relating to managing ephemeris and data products data
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Manage Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-manage-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-operations-sitl-api
  name: University of Calgary Operations - SITL API
  description: Endpoints for Scientist In The Loop (SITL) operations
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Operations - SITL
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-operations-sitl-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-real-time-data-api
  name: University of Calgary Real-Time Data API
  description: Endpoints providing real-time data streams
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Real-Time Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-real-time-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-utilities-api
  name: University of Calgary Utilities API
  description: Various helper endpoints
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Utilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-utilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
- aid: university-of-calgary:university-of-calgary-utils-api
  name: University of Calgary Utils API
  description: Various utilities
  humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  tags:
  - Utils
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-calgary-utils-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.aurorax.space/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/university-of-calgary-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/university-of-calgary-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-calgary-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-calgary-authentication.yml
- 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
- url: https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/rss.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com