University of Canterbury

aid: university-of-canterbury
name: University of Canterbury
description: 'University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha) is a public research university in Christchurch, New Zealand,
  ranked #261 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-accessible developer footprint is centered on
  scholarly and research infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the UC Research Repository (a DSpace 7 platform)
  exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface and a DSpace REST API, the institutional Canterbury Figshare instance
  is reachable through figshare''s public REST and OAI-PMH endpoints, and the College of Engineering runs a self-hosted GitLab.
  No consolidated, publicly documented university-wide API program was confirmed; entries below reflect only endpoints verified
  live.'
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-canterbury/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-canterbury:research-repository-oai
  name: UC Research Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the UC Research Repository, a DSpace 7 institutional repository
    of theses, dissertations and research outputs. Verified live (HTTP 200) returning a valid Identify response with repositoryName
    "UC Research Repository" and base URL https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request.
  humanURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-canterbury:research-repository-rest
  name: UC Research Repository DSpace REST API
  description: DSpace 7 REST API backing the UC Research Repository, providing programmatic access to communities, collections
    and items. The API root (https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api) is part of the standard DSpace 7 platform; it returned
    HTTP 403 to unauthenticated probes during review, so access conditions were not fully confirmed.
  humanURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - REST
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
- aid: university-of-canterbury:figshare-api
  name: Canterbury Figshare (figshare REST and OAI-PMH)
  description: Canterbury's institutional Figshare instance provides an open-access research data and outputs platform. Figshare
    exposes a public REST API (api.figshare.com/v2, verified HTTP 200) and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (verified HTTP 200) that
    can surface institutional records. The Canterbury portal itself sits behind Cloudflare (HTTP 202 challenge to automated
    probes).
  humanURL: https://canterbury.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Research
  - Data
  - Figshare
  - REST
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://canterbury.figshare.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-canterbury-figshare-api.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-canterbury-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-canterbury-collection-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-canterbury-article-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-canterbury-collection-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-canterbury-list-articles-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-canterbury-search-articles-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/university-of-canterbury-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-canterbury-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-canterbury-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-canterbury:eng-git-gitlab
  name: UC Engineering GitLab API
  description: Self-hosted GitLab instance operated by the University of Canterbury College of Engineering. The web application
    is reachable (HTTP 200) and the GitLab REST API v4 is present (HTTP 401 to unauthenticated calls, indicating an authentication-gated
    GitLab API rather than a public one).
  humanURL: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/api/v4
  tags:
  - GitLab
  - Source Code
  - Engineering
  - REST
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/api/v4/version
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uccser
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-canterbury/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-canterbury-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-canterbury-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-canterbury-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com