University of Leeds

aid: university-of-leeds
name: University of Leeds
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, United Kingdom, a member of the Russell Group,
  with more than 34,000 students and over 7,000 staff. Its programmable footprint is small, real, and almost entirely the
  work of one department: University of Leeds Libraries. Four surfaces were verified live on 2026-08-30 and every one of them
  runs on a leeds.ac.uk host under the institution''s own operation — two self-hosted EPrints repositories exposing OAI-PMH
  2.0 (Research Data Leeds, and the Digital Library of digitised Special Collections), a IIIF Image API level 0 service behind
  the library floor plans, and Spacefinder, an unauthenticated JSON dataset of 68 campus study spaces with geolocation, opening
  hours, facilities and accessibility. All four are anonymous, keyless and read-only. There is no central developer portal,
  no API gateway, no registration, no status page, no changelog and no published OpenAPI — the four OpenAPI documents in this
  repository were derived by API Evangelist from probed responses, not published by Leeds. Library discovery is an Ex Libris
  Alma/Primo tenancy and the university''s publications repository is White Rose Research Online, a three-university consortium
  platform; both are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Leeds contracts. Advanced Research Computing (ARC) operates
  the Aire HPC service for researchers, but its allocation and service surfaces are behind institutional login.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Institution-operated endpoints · anonymous and keyless
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free and open · no registration
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Producing
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-leeds.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-leeds/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United Kingdom
- Russell Group
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Libraries
- Open Data
- OAI-PMH
- IIIF
- Research Computing
- Digital Collections
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Four institution-operated, machine-readable surfaces were probed live and all four answered. This is a genuinely
    thin but genuinely real footprint, and the profile now says which parts are Leeds'' and which are a vendor''s. Corrections
    made in this pass: the Ex Libris Alma/Primo entry was carrying a library.leeds.ac.uk humanURL, which made a vendor tenancy
    read as an institution-owned surface to a host-based verdict — it is now x-operator tenant, anchored on leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
    (vid=44LEE_INST). The 2026-06-03 "Cultural Collections IIIF" entry was withdrawn: its own description admitted no confirmed
    manifest base URL, and the EPrints IIIF manifest endpoint at digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/iiif/manifest/{id} is a soft-200
    — HTTP 200 with a zero-byte body for identifiers 1, 2, 100, 500, 1000 and 1705. It was replaced with the library floor
    plans IIIF Image API, which was verified. The 2026-06-03 note claiming data.leeds.ac.uk is "a third-party data consultancy"
    was not supported: the host is under the university''s own registrable domain, resolves to WP Engine, and is Cloudflare
    bot-challenged (HTTP 403 to curl and to a browser user-agent alike) — it is bot_blocked and unread, not third-party. arc.leeds.ac.uk
    (Advanced Research Computing) and generative-ai.leeds.ac.uk are behind the same challenge; both are confirmed live and
    are recorded as pointers. Two negative findings are recorded so they are not re-claimed from prose: no publicly retrievable
    Shibboleth/SAML metadata exists under any leeds.ac.uk host (idp.leeds.ac.uk redirects to a ServiceNow catalogue item),
    and ORCID is documented for researchers but is not emitted in any machine-readable surface. Nothing in this repository
    is attributed to Leeds that Leeds does not operate.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://spacefinder.leeds.ac.uk/spaces.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://floorplans.library.leeds.ac.uk/assets/iiif/original/brotherton-m1/info.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/iiif/manifest/1705
    status: 200
  - url: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1
    status: 200
  - url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://data.leeds.ac.uk/
    status: 403
  - url: https://arc.leeds.ac.uk/
    status: 403
  - url: https://generative-ai.leeds.ac.uk/
    status: 403
  - url: https://idp.leeds.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://catalogue.leeds.ac.uk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/llms.txt
    status: 404
apis:
- aid: university-of-leeds:research-data-oai
  name: Research Data Leeds Repository (OAI-PMH)
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk is under leeds.ac.uk and CNAMEs to roadmap4.leeds.ac.uk (129.11.190.31,
    University of Leeds address space). Self-hosted EPrints 3 — open-source software the institution runs itself, not a vendor-hosted
    tenancy. OAI Identify adminEmail is researchdataenquiries@leeds.ac.uk.
  description: 'The University of Leeds institutional research data repository, running EPrints 3 on the university''s own
    infrastructure, with a live unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 interface. Verified 2026-08-30: Identify returns protocolVersion
    2.0, earliest datestamp 2023-07-27, deletedRecord "persistent"; ListMetadataFormats returns six prefixes (oai_dc, didl,
    mets, oai_bibl, rdf, uketd_dc); ListIdentifiers returned 100 identifiers on the first page. Datasets carry DataCite DOIs
    under the university''s own 10.5518 prefix. Protocol errors are returned at HTTP 200 inside an <error> element — see errors/.'
  humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  - Repository
  - DataCite
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-leeds-research-data-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-leeds-research-data-oai-identify-example.xml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-leeds-errors.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-leeds-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-leeds-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-leeds:digital-library
  name: Leeds Digital Library (OAI-PMH and OpenSearch)
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: digital.library.leeds.ac.uk is under leeds.ac.uk and resolves to 129.11.78.169, University of Leeds
    address space. Self-hosted EPrints. OAI adminEmail and OpenSearch Contact are both @leeds.ac.uk.
  description: A second, separate institution-run EPrints deployment holding digitised Special Collections — Bronte, incunabula,
    the Liddle Collection, cookery, history of science, the Leeds Permanent Library. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (repositoryName
    "Digital Library", earliest datestamp 2012-09-04) and an OpenSearch 1.1 description document offering Atom and BibTeX
    result serialisations over /cgi/search/simple. Verified live 2026-08-30. Its /cgi/iiif/manifest/{id} endpoint is a soft-200
    returning a zero-byte body and is excluded.
  humanURL: https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Digital Collections
  - OAI-PMH
  - OpenSearch
  - EPrints
  - Libraries
  - Cultural Heritage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-leeds-digital-library-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/opensearchdescription
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-leeds-digital-library-oai-identify-example.xml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-leeds-errors.yml
- aid: university-of-leeds:spacefinder
  name: Spacefinder Campus Space Data
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: spacefinder.leeds.ac.uk is under leeds.ac.uk. Application and data authored and maintained by github.com/uol-library
    (University of Leeds Libraries). The site is served from GitHub Pages; a code host is not an operator.
  description: The data layer behind the University of Leeds Libraries wayfinding application, published as two unauthenticated
    static JSON documents. spaces.json returned 68 campus and library spaces on 2026-08-30 (137,649 bytes) with geolocation,
    per-weekday opening hours, facility and atmosphere vocabularies, noise level, accessibility and access restriction; filters.json
    returns the six facet groups the application uses. No key, no quota, no registration, and no version field — validate
    every fetch against the derived JSON Schema. Built with the University of Cambridge's Spacefinder Rails application as
    its starting point and released by Leeds as a Jekyll theme other institutions can reuse.
  humanURL: https://spacefinder.leeds.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://spacefinder.leeds.ac.uk
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Campus Life
  - Study Spaces
  - Wayfinding
  - GeoJSON
  - Accessibility
  - Libraries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-leeds-spacefinder-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-leeds-spacefinder-space.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-leeds-spacefinder-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-leeds-spacefinder-spaces-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/uol-library/spacefinder.leeds.ac.uk
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/uol-library/spacefinder
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-leeds-rules.yml
- aid: university-of-leeds:library-floorplans-iiif
  name: Library Floor Plans IIIF Image API
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: floorplans.library.leeds.ac.uk is under leeds.ac.uk, CNAMEs to lib-sc-prd.leeds.ac.uk and resolves
    to 129.11.190.52 (University of Leeds address space). Source at github.com/uol-library/floorplans.library.leeds.ac.uk.
  description: 'A static IIIF Image API level 0 service on the institution''s own host, serving high-resolution floor plans
    for the Brotherton, Edward Boyle, Health Sciences and Laidlaw libraries in "original" and "cropped" variants. Verified
    2026-08-30: info.json returns protocol http://iiif.io/api/image, profile level0, 1024x1024 tiles, scale factors [32,16,8,4,2,1]
    and a 5077x5988 source image; a derivative tile request also returned 200. Level 0 means only the pre-generated sizes
    enumerated in info.json resolve. This is the only IIIF surface at Leeds this profile could verify, and it replaces an
    unverifiable 2026-06-03 "Cultural Collections IIIF" claim.'
  humanURL: https://floorplans.library.leeds.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://floorplans.library.leeds.ac.uk/assets/iiif
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Image
  - Libraries
  - Wayfinding
  - Digital Collections
  tags_raw:
  - IIIF
  - Images
  - Libraries
  - Wayfinding
  - Digital Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-leeds-library-floorplans-iiif-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/locations
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://floorplans.library.leeds.ac.uk/assets/iiif/original/brotherton-m1/info.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-leeds-floorplans-iiif-info-example.json
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/uol-library/floorplans.library.leeds.ac.uk
- aid: university-of-leeds:library-discovery-primo
  name: Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo) — tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: Discovery runs at leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with view id 44LEE_INST — an institution- specific
    view on a vendor-operated platform, on the vendor's registrable domain. The 2026-06-03 profile carried a library.leeds.ac.uk
    humanURL on this entry, which made a vendor tenancy read as institution-owned to a host-based verdict. Corrected 2026-08-30.
  description: 'RELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. University of Leeds Libraries discovery and resource management run on the Ex
    Libris Alma library services platform with the Primo discovery layer. The tenancy is a real institutional fact — the collection,
    the holdings and the patron data are Leeds''. The interface is not: Alma and Primo REST and SRU APIs are Ex Libris'' engineering,
    documented on the Ex Libris Developer Network, and keys are issued by Ex Libris to the institution. No Ex Libris specification
    is stored in this repository and none should be; it belongs in the Ex Libris profile. Leeds publishes no public developer
    documentation for these endpoints.'
  humanURL: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1
  tags:
  - Libraries
  - Discovery
  - Alma
  - Primo
  - Ex Libris
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1100/search-resources
  - type: VendorDocumentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/apis/
- aid: university-of-leeds:white-rose-research-online
  name: White Rose Research Online (OAI-PMH) — consortium tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: 'eprints.whiterose.ac.uk is on whiterose.ac.uk, not leeds.ac.uk. OAI Identify returns repositoryName
    "White Rose Research Online" with adminEmail eprints@whiterose.ac.uk. The University of Leeds is one of three co-owning
    institutions (with Sheffield and York) of the White Rose University Consortium, not the operator of the host. audit-university-contracts.py
    returns a cohort-derived verdict of `vendor` on this host — "same host claimed by 2 other institution(s)" — and that computation
    is correct. It is recorded as `tenant` rather than `vendor` because White Rose is not a commercial platform with customers:
    Leeds co-owns the consortium and the deposits are Leeds''. The BEHAVIOUR is identical either way, and it is the behaviour
    that matters: no White Rose contract is saved under this slug and no credit is taken for its engineering.'
  description: 'RELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. Leeds'' scholarly publications repository is White Rose Research Online, a shared
    EPrints platform operated by the White Rose University Consortium on behalf of Leeds, Sheffield and York. It exposes a
    live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (verified 2026-08-30, earliest datestamp 2007-08-05). Leeds'' outputs are in it and Leeds co-owns
    the consortium, but the host is not under a Leeds registrable domain and the deposits of two other universities share
    the same endpoint — so the interface is recorded as a tenancy and no White Rose specification is stored under this slug.
    This is the correct handling of a shared contract: the relationship is kept, the credit is not taken.'
  humanURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Consortium
  - Open Access
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
common:
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/uol-library/spacefinder/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/uol-library
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/arc-leeds
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-leeds/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://it.leeds.ac.uk/it
- type: Blog
  url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/news
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://catalogue.leeds.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1
- type: OpenData
  url: https://spacefinder.leeds.ac.uk/spaces.json
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://arcdocs.leeds.ac.uk/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://generative-ai.leeds.ac.uk/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-leeds-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-leeds-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-leeds-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-leeds-finops.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-leeds-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-leeds-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/university-of-leeds-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/university-of-leeds-errors.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/university-of-leeds-lifecycle.yml
- type: Rules
  url: rules/university-of-leeds-rules.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com