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.
University of Leeds publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Facets API, IIIF Image API, OAI PMH API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, United Kingdom, and Russell Group.
The University of Leeds catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
University of Leeds’ developer surface includes GitHub presence, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 22 more developer resources.
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Education & Research regime, so
Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite.
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applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare
no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's
denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to
upsert.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal
weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
Interfaces this provider implements that became standards by being copied rather than ratified. Each is profiled by the API Commons, and the evidence column says how the claim was established — not that it was made.
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....
RELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. Leeds' scholarly publications repository is White Rose Research Online, a shared EPrints platform operated by the White Rose University Consortium ...
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
- Library
- Open Data
- OAI-PMH
- IIIF
- Research Computing
- Digital Collections
tags_raw:
- 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: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:
- Library
- Discovery
- Alma
- Primo
- Ex Libris
- Tenants
tags_raw:
- 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
- Tenants
tags_raw:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- EPrints
- Consortium
- Open Access
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-leeds:university-of-leeds-facets-api
name: University of Leeds Facets API
description: Filtering vocabulary over the space dataset.
humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Facets
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-leeds-facets-api-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
- 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: 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
- 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:university-of-leeds-iiif-image-api
name: University of Leeds IIIF Image API
description: IIIF Image API level 0 static tile service.
humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- IIIF Image
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-leeds-iiif-image-api-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
- 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: 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
- 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:university-of-leeds-oai-pmh-api
name: University of Leeds OAI PMH API
description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0.
humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- OAI-PMH
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-leeds-oai-pmh-api-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
- 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: 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
- 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:university-of-leeds-spaces-api
name: University of Leeds Spaces API
description: Campus and library study spaces.
humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Spaces
- Space
tags_raw:
- Spaces
- Space
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-leeds-spaces-api-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
- 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: 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
- 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:university-of-leeds-open-search-api
name: University of Leeds Open Search API
description: OpenSearch 1.1 description and search result feeds.
humanURL: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1
baseURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- OpenSearch
tags_raw:
- Open Search
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-leeds-open-search-api-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
- 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: 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
- 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
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
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- FN: Kin Lane
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