# University of Calgary

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-calgary/  
**Website:** https://www.ucalgary.ca/  
**APIs profiled:** 16

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.

## Kin Score — 40.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 56.3 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 42.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (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 | partial |
| 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 (16)

- **PRISM Institutional Repository (DSpace)** — 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 program...
- **PRISM Research Data Repository (Borealis Dataverse)** — 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...
- **University of Calgary Application.wadl API** — The Application.wadl API from University of Calgary — 2 operation(s) for application.wadl.
- **University of Calgary Auroral Transport Model (ATM) API** — Endpoints to utilize the Auroral Transport Model
- **University of Calgary Authenticate API** — 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.
- **University of Calgary Availability API** — Retrieve information about data in the database
- **University of Calgary Conjunction Search API** — Search for conjunctions between multiple sets of data sources
- **University of Calgary Data Distribution API** — Endpoints supporting data distribution
- **University of Calgary Data Products Search API** — Search for data products
- **University of Calgary Data Sources API** — Interact with data sources
- **University of Calgary Ephemeris Search API** — Search ephemeris records
- **University of Calgary Manage Data API** — Operations relating to managing ephemeris and data products data
- **University of Calgary Operations - SITL API** — Endpoints for Scientist In The Loop (SITL) operations
- **University of Calgary Real-Time Data API** — Endpoints providing real-time data streams
- **University of Calgary Utilities API** — Various helper endpoints
- **University of Calgary Utils API** — Various utilities

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Calgary Agentic Access** — 67 operations · 38 acting

## Security (3)

- **University Of Calgary Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **University Of Calgary Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **University Of Calgary Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Calgary Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Data, Repository, Space Physics, Canada

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