# University of Edinburgh

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-edinburgh/  
**Website:** https://www.ed.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

The University of Edinburgh is a public research university in Scotland, founded in 1582, a member of the Russell Group and ranked #19 in the QS World University Rankings. Its programmable footprint is real but narrow, and it is not where the catalog previously said it was. Re-profiled on 2026-08-19 against the operator axis, the institution genuinely operates: two DSpace 8.3 research repositories on its own domain (Edinburgh DataShare and the Edinburgh Research Archive) each with a REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint minting DataCite DOIs under the University prefix 10.7488; a Shibboleth Identity Provider publishing SAML 2.0 metadata unauthenticated; a CKAN 2.11.3 open-data catalogue for the Edinburgh International Data Facility; and ELM (Edinburgh Language Models), an OpenAI-compatible generative-AI gateway that EDINA operates for UK tertiary education — the one surface here where Edinburgh is clearly a producer rather than a buyer. An Enterprise API programme runs on a WSO2 Choreo gateway at api.ed.ac.uk, which is live but exposes no public route, catalogue or developer portal, and whose own public project pages returned HTTP 500 on every probe. The library discovery layer (Ex Libris Primo) and the research information system (Elsevier Pure) are vendor platforms recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Edinburgh contracts. This profile is deliberately smaller than the June 2026 one: the seven OpenAPI documents previously held for this institution described the DSpace 6 legacy /rest API, which is retired and now returns 404.

## Kin Score — 46.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+12.2 from 34.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 57.8 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 46.4 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Edinburgh DataShare REST API** — DSpace 8.3 REST API for Edinburgh DataShare, the University's open-access research-data repository. Anonymous callers may read communities (110), collections, browse indexes and...
- **Edinburgh DataShare OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Edinburgh DataShare. Fully anonymous, no key, twelve metadata prefixes including the UK research formats rioxx and uketd_dc. Records...
- **Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) REST API** — DSpace 8.3 REST API for the Edinburgh Research Archive, the University's institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research publications. 54 communities readable ano...
- **Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the Edinburgh Research Archive. Thirteen metadata prefixes including etdms for electronic theses alongside rioxx and uketd_dc. DOIs under 10.7488/era. E...
- **EIDF Data Catalogue API** — CKAN 2.11.3 Action API for the Edinburgh International Data Facility Data Catalogue, operated by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. 14 public datasets across 13 EIDF project o...
- **ELM — Edinburgh Language Models API** — OpenAI-compatible generative-AI gateway built and run by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, described by its own metadata as delivering generative AI to UK tertiary education...
- **University of Edinburgh Shibboleth Identity Provider** — Shibboleth Identity Provider publishing SAML 2.0 entity metadata unauthenticated at a stable URL, entityID https://idp.ed.ac.uk/shibboleth. Advertises the full SAML 2.0 binding ...
- **Enterprise API Gateway (gated)** — The University's Enterprise APIs programme — Student Records, Timetabling and Staff APIs — runs on a WSO2 Choreo gateway at api.ed.ac.uk. The gateway is live and Edinburgh-opera...
- **Edinburgh Research Explorer (Elsevier Pure) — tenant** — Edinburgh Research Explorer is the University's public research information portal, running on Elsevier Pure. The research outputs, the people and the DOIs are Edinburgh's; the ...
- **DiscoverEd Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo) — tenant** — DiscoverEd is the University Library's discovery layer, an Ex Libris Primo tenancy on an Edinburgh subdomain. The holdings are Edinburgh's; the search API is Ex Libris's product...

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Edinburgh Agentic Access** — 14 operations · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **University Of Edinburgh Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **University Of Edinburgh Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Edinburgh Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, United Kingdom, Scotland, Russell Group, Research Repository, Open Data, Identity Federation, Research Computing, OAI-PMH, Artificial Intelligence

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