University of Lausanne

aid: university-of-lausanne
name: University of Lausanne
description: 'The University of Lausanne (UNIL) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, ranked #224 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. With roughly 17,000 students across seven faculties, UNIL maintains an Open Science strategy
  and a Kong-based internal API gateway underpinning its digital services. Its public developer footprint is modest and research-oriented:
  the SPICA single-cell spatial atlas exposes a documented JSON API, and the IRIS institutional repository is served by a
  public DSpace REST API. Most institutional and student-information APIs sit behind the my.unil.ch authentication gateway
  and are not publicly documented.'
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-lausanne/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Switzerland
- Open Science
- Research Data
- Institutional Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-lausanne:spica
  name: SPICA Atlas API
  description: Public JSON API for the SPICA single-cell / spatial atlas hosted by UNIL. It lists current projects with metadata,
    supports filtering by reference atlas (ref_id), free-text search across metadata fields, pagination, and download of project
    archives.
  humanURL: https://spica.unil.ch/home/api
  baseURL: https://spica.unil.ch
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Single Cell
  - Atlas
  - JSON
  - Life Sciences
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spica.unil.ch/home/api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-lausanne-spica.yaml
- aid: university-of-lausanne:iris
  name: IRIS Repository (DSpace REST API)
  description: Public DSpace 7 REST/HATEOAS API (version 1.3.8) serving the IRIS institutional research repository at UNIL.
    Exposes communities, collections, items, bundles and bitstreams, with discovery, metadata schemas and ORCID integration.
    Anonymous read access is available for public content; some endpoints require authentication.
  humanURL: https://iris.unil.ch
  baseURL: https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-lausanne-iris.yaml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unil.ch
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/openscienceunil
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-lausanne/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://my.unil.ch/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-lausanne-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-lausanne-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-lausanne-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com