University of Copenhagen

aid: university-of-copenhagen
name: University of Copenhagen
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet, UCPH), founded in 1479, is Denmark''s oldest and largest
  university and one of the leading research institutions in the Nordic region. It operates no central developer portal, no
  REST API program and no open-data portal — api.ku.dk and developer.ku.dk do not resolve, and data.ku.dk redirects to the
  homepage. What it does operate, and what makes it unusually well-covered for this cohort, is a set of standards-based machine-readable
  surfaces on its own infrastructure: a complete OAI-PMH 2.0 repository at curis.ku.dk serving 440,535 research records across
  7,430 sets in six metadata formats; a signed SAML 2.0 identity provider at id.ku.dk registered in the Danish WAYF federation;
  and thirteen Darwin Core Archive feeds published by the Natural History Museum of Denmark from specify-snm.science.ku.dk
  and harvested by GBIF. Its public research portal researchprofiles.ku.dk is by contrast an Elsevier Pure tenancy — it CNAMEs
  to ku.elsevierpure.com and its REST contract is Elsevier''s, api-key gated — and is recorded here as a tenant relationship
  rather than as the university''s own API. The only source code the institution publishes is the ku-kom GitHub account: 52
  repositories of TYPO3 content elements and a Bootstrap styleguide that build the ku.dk web platform.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: derived
  note: The institution-operated OAI-PMH endpoint takes no credential and no registration — every verb answered 200 to an
    anonymous request on 2026-08-30. The Elsevier Pure REST contract behind the same host is api-key gated (401), but that
    is the vendor's surface.
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-copenhagen.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-copenhagen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Denmark
- Nordic
- Open Source
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Open Data
- Research Computing
- Course Catalog
- Biodiversity
tags_raw:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Denmark
- Nordic
- Open Source
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Open Data
- Research Computing
- Course Catalog
- Biodiversity
- Open-Source
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Re-profiled 2026-08-30 under the university pipeline. The June 2026 profile recorded one research-portal entry
    and asserted that the Pure endpoints "could not be confirmed reachable from the public internet" — that conclusion was
    reached by probing the wrong host. The Pure portal researchprofiles.ku.dk does not serve OAI-PMH (its /ws/oai returns
    500 and redirects to /error/), but curis.ku.dk does, and it answers all six OAI-PMH verbs at 200 unauthenticated. Two
    further institution-operated surfaces were found that had never been catalogued: the SAML 2.0 identity-provider metadata
    at id.ku.dk, and the Natural History Museum''s Darwin Core Archive feeds on specify-snm.science.ku.dk. One correction
    runs the other way: researchprofiles.ku.dk was previously carried as institution-operated on the strength of its ku.dk
    hostname, and DNS resolution shows it CNAMEs to ku.elsevierpure.com; it is re-labelled x-operator tenant. Negative results
    are real too — www.ku.dk answers 200 with a 121,943-byte homepage for every unknown path, so llms.txt, /.well-known/security.txt,
    /.well-known/ai.txt and /en/ai are all soft-404s and none is credited.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://curis.ku.dk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://curis.ku.dk/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://curis.ku.dk/ws/oai?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://curis.ku.dk/ws/oai?verb=NoSuchVerb
    status: 200
    note: OAI badVerb error element, correctly formed
  - url: https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
    status: 200
  - url: https://metadata.wayf.dk/birk-idp.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://specify-snm.science.ku.dk/static/depository/export_feed/DwCA-QZ.zip
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/xizz
    status: 200
  - url: https://erda.ku.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://hpc.ku.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://kurser.ku.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ku.dk/en
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/ku-kom
    status: 200
  - url: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/
    status: 403
    note: Cloudflare bot interstitial — live, not dead
  - url: https://curis.ku.dk/ws/api/524/openapi.yaml
    status: 401
    note: Elsevier Pure contract, api-key gated — vendor's document, not saved here
  - url: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 500
    note: The portal host does not serve OAI-PMH; curis.ku.dk does
  - url: https://data.ku.dk/
    status: 200
    note: Redirects to www.ku.dk — no open-data portal exists
  - url: https://www.ku.dk/llms.txt
    status: 200
    note: Soft-404 — identical body to any unknown path; not a real file
  - url: https://www.ku.dk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
    note: Soft-404 — identical body to any unknown path; not a real file
  - url: https://skema.ku.dk/
    status: 503
  - url: https://federation.ku.dk/adfs/services/trust
    status: 0
    note: Connection timed out — AD FS firewalled from the public internet
apis:
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:identity-federation
  name: University of Copenhagen SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'The university publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata (200,
    24,737 bytes, text/xml), entityID https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata. Three ku.dk SAML entities are registered in WAYF,
    the Danish national research-and-education federation and Denmark''s eduGAIN participant: the id.ku.dk NetIQ Access Manager
    IdP, its test twin t-id.ku.dk, and a Windows AD FS endpoint at federation.ku.dk (registered but firewalled — it times
    out from the public internet). Verified in use: kunet.ku.dk redirects to id.ku.dk/nidp/wsfed/ep to authenticate. Identity
    federation is institution-operated by definition and is almost never catalogued for this cohort.'
  baseURL: https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
  humanURL: https://www.wayf.dk/
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - WAYF
  - eduGAIN
  - Institution-Operated
  properties:
  - type: Metadata
    url: https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://metadata.wayf.dk/birk-idp.xml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-copenhagen-authentication.yml
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:nhmd-darwin-core
  name: Natural History Museum of Denmark Darwin Core Archive Feeds
  x-operator: institution
  description: The Natural History Museum of Denmark, a University of Copenhagen faculty museum, publishes thirteen Darwin
    Core Archive exports from the Faculty of Science's own host specify-snm.science.ku.dk — entomology, mycology, ornithology,
    mammalogy, herpetology, ichthyology, invertebrate zoology, quaternary zoology, vertebrate palaeontology, vascular plants,
    biocultural botany, amber and the Danekræ collection. GBIF harvests them under publishing organization 2e7df380-8356-4533-bcb3-5459e23c794e
    (34 datasets in total; the remaining 21 arrive via ipt.danbif.dk and danbif.au.dk, which are not Copenhagen's infrastructure).
    These zips are the only bulk open-data downloads the university serves from a host it operates. The feed directory itself
    returns 403 to a listing request — normal for a directory of files, not a dead host; the individual archives under it
    return 200 application/zip.
  baseURL: https://specify-snm.science.ku.dk/static/depository/export_feed/
  humanURL: https://snm.dk/en
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Biodiversity
  - Darwin Core
  - GBIF
  - Institution-Operated
  properties:
  - type: DataDownload
    url: https://specify-snm.science.ku.dk/static/depository/export_feed/DwCA-QZ.zip
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://snm.dk/en
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-copenhagen-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:erda
  name: Electronic Research Data Archive (ERDA) and SCIENCE HPC Center
  x-operator: institution
  description: ERDA (erda.ku.dk, erda.dk, sid.erda.dk) is the university's research data archive, operated by the SCIENCE
    HPC Center at the Faculty of Science and skinned erda-ucph-science. UCPH users authenticate through id.ku.dk; external
    collaborators through oidc.erda.dk and cert.erda.dk. The archive exposes data over WebDAVS, SFTP and FTPS rather than
    a documented HTTP API, and no OpenAPI or /.well-known descriptor was found on any ERDA host. The associated SCIENCE HPC
    Center at hpc.ku.dk documents SLURM, Lustre, MPI, compiler and VGL access as web pages. Recorded as a real institution-operated
    research-computing surface with no machine-readable contract.
  humanURL: https://erda.ku.dk/
  tags:
  - Research Computing
  - Research Data
  - Institution-Operated
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://erda.ku.dk/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hpc.ku.dk/
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:course-catalog
  name: University of Copenhagen Course Catalogue
  x-operator: institution
  description: kurser.ku.dk is the university's course catalogue, on a Copenhagen hostname running on Arcanic infrastructure
    (courses.loadbalancer.arcanic.dk). It serves human-readable course pages keyed by course code and a 471KB sitemap.xml
    enumerating every course, which is the only bulk-readable representation on offer — there is no JSON API, ?format=json
    returns the same HTML, and /api/ returns 404. The companion timetable host skema.ku.dk returned 503. Catalogued as a surface
    class the institution genuinely operates while being explicit that it is not programmable.
  humanURL: https://kurser.ku.dk/
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Registrar
  - Institution-Operated
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://kurser.ku.dk/
  - type: Sitemap
    url: https://kurser.ku.dk/sitemap.xml
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:research-portal-pure
  name: University of Copenhagen Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'researchprofiles.ku.dk is the university''s public research portal and the front end of CURIS. It is an Elsevier
    Pure tenancy, not Copenhagen''s engineering: the hostname CNAMEs researchprofiles.ku.dk -> ku.elsevierpure.com -> eu.prod.elsevierpure.com
    -> Cloudflare, the Identify block on the harvesting endpoint reports the software as Pure 5.30.3-3 with acronym pure.atira.dk,
    and the REST contract at /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml is Elsevier''s document, returned 401 without an api-key. The portal
    itself answers 403 with a Cloudflare interstitial to non-browser clients — live but bot-blocked. The data and the DOIs
    are Copenhagen''s; the contract is Elsevier''s, so no Pure specification is saved under this slug. The relationship is
    the fact worth recording. The institution''s own harvesting interface over the same data is the separate curis-oai-pmh
    entry above.'
  humanURL: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - Pure
  - Elsevier
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - Pure
  - Elsevier
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/
  - type: Vendor
    url: https://www.elsevier.com/products/pure
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:datacite-xizz
  name: University of Copenhagen DataCite Membership (XIZZ)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'The university is an active DataCite member — provider symbol XIZZ, memberType consortium_organization, isActive
    true — with two registered repositories: xizz.curis ("CURIS", pointed at researchprofiles.ku.dk) and dk.ku ("University
    of Copenhagen"). This is how Copenhagen mints persistent identifiers for its own research outputs. The API is DataCite''s,
    the account and the DOIs are Copenhagen''s, which is precisely the tenant shape.'
  humanURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/xizz
  tags:
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  - Tenant
  x-audit-note: audit-university-contracts.py returns [vendor] for api.datacite.org because seven other institutions in the
    cohort point at the same host, and that verdict is correct about the HOST. It is not the whole fact. What is recorded
    here is Copenhagen's ACCOUNT on that platform — provider symbol XIZZ with two named repositories — which is the tenant
    shape the university pipeline exists to preserve. No DataCite contract, schema or artifact is saved under this slug; the
    only pointers below are the registry record and this repo's own conformance file.
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/xizz
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-copenhagen-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:ku-kom-github
  name: University of Copenhagen Web Platform Source (ku-kom)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'github.com/ku-kom is the university''s GitHub account — a User account rather than an Organization, named
    "University of Copenhagen" and linked to www.ku.dk — publishing 52 public repositories: the KU Bootstrap styleguide and
    a family of ucph_content_* TYPO3 content elements (grids, tabs, accordions, modals, sliders, the UCPH employee directory,
    the UCPH system status element) that build the ku.dk web platform. Judged by what it says about itself rather than by
    the fact that it lives on a code host: these are the institution''s own components. They are reusable source code, not
    a hosted, callable service, and no OpenAPI or other API contract is published in any of them.'
  humanURL: https://github.com/ku-kom
  tags:
  - Open Source
  - TYPO3
  - CMS
  - Web
  - Institution-Operated
  tags_raw:
  - Open Source
  - TYPO3
  - CMS
  - Web
  - Institution-Operated
  - Open-Source
  properties:
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ku-kom
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/ku-kom
- aid: university-of-copenhagen:university-of-copenhagen-oai-pmh-api
  name: University of Copenhagen OAI PMH API
  description: The six OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs, all dispatched from a single path by query parameter.
  humanURL: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/
  baseURL: https://curis.ku.dk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-copenhagen-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-copenhagen-curis-oai-pmh-examples.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-copenhagen-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/university-of-copenhagen-oai-pmh-errors.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-copenhagen-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-copenhagen-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ku.dk/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ku-kom
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ku-kom
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-copenhagen/
- type: Blog
  url: https://news.ku.dk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
- type: OpenData
  url: https://specify-snm.science.ku.dk/static/depository/export_feed/DwCA-QZ.zip
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://hpc.ku.dk/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://kurser.ku.dk/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/university-of-copenhagen-curis-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-copenhagen-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/university-of-copenhagen-oai-pmh-errors.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-copenhagen-curis-oai-pmh-examples.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-copenhagen-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-copenhagen-vocabulary.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-copenhagen-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-copenhagen-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-copenhagen-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com