University of Helsinki

aid: university-of-helsinki
name: University of Helsinki
description: 'The University of Helsinki is Finland''s oldest and largest multidisciplinary research university, founded in
  1640, and is ranked #68 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint centers on open
  scholarly infrastructure: Helda, the university''s institutional repository, runs on DSpace 7 and exposes both a public
  REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface. The university also maintains official GitHub organizations for its
  IT, computer science, student services, and language technology groups. Student-facing academic data flows through the Funidata
  Sisu student information system (Kori GraphQL/REST APIs), which is used institutionally but is not publicly documented or
  self-service.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-helsinki/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Finland
- Research
- Open Data
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-helsinki:helda-rest
  name: Helda DSpace REST API
  description: Public REST API for Helda, the open institutional repository of the University of Helsinki, powered by DSpace
    7.6.2. Provides programmatic access to research publications, dissertations, theses, and other scholarly material, including
    discovery/search, items, collections, and communities. The repository root advertises DSpace HAL links at /server/api.
  humanURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/
  baseURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Scholarly
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
- aid: university-of-helsinki:helda-oai
  name: Helda OAI-PMH Metadata Interface
  description: OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint for Helda, enabling third parties to harvest Dublin Core and other metadata
    formats describing the university's open-access publications. Confirmed live, returning a valid OAI-PMH Identify response
    with repository name "Helda".
  humanURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/
  baseURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-helsinki:sisu-kori
  name: Sisu (Kori) Student Information System API
  description: The University of Helsinki runs the Funidata Sisu student information system for academic administration (study
    plans, course registration, curricula, organizations). Sisu exposes GraphQL and REST APIs via its Kori component for data
    integration. These interfaces are used institutionally and partner-integration only; there is no public, self-service
    developer portal or documentation for the University of Helsinki tenant. Listed here for completeness as a gated API.
  humanURL: https://www.funidata.fi/en/services/sisu
  tags:
  - Student Information System
  - Sisu
  - GraphQL
  - Gated
  - Academic
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.funidata.fi/en/services/sisu
  - url: graphql/university-of-helsinki-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.helsinki.fi/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UniversityofHelsinki
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-helsinki/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-helsinki-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-helsinki-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-helsinki-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com