University of Melbourne

aid: university-of-melbourne
name: University of Melbourne
description: 'The University of Melbourne is Australia''s leading research university, ranked #24 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is modest and federated rather than centralized: the Library operates
  the Minerva Access institutional repository on DSpace 7.6, which exposes a public OAI-PMH metadata interface and a DSpace
  REST API, and the institution publishes campus GIS data through an ArcGIS Hub open spatial-data portal with the standard
  ArcGIS/Hub query APIs. Internally the university runs a Boomi-based API management developer portal for staff and students,
  but that portal is gated and not publicly documented. Identity is managed via central SSO (Okta) with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID
  Connect, but no public API program is offered there. An official GitHub organization (github.com/unimelb) exists with mostly
  archived projects.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-melbourne/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Australia
- Open Data
- Research
- Library
- Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-melbourne:minerva-oai
  name: Minerva Access OAI-PMH
  description: Public OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for Minerva Access, the University of Melbourne Library Digital
    Repository (DSpace 7.6). Supports standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, etc.) for harvesting
    metadata on journal articles, theses, conference papers, reports, books and datasets. Verified live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Library
  - Metadata
  - Open Data
  - DSpace
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
- aid: university-of-melbourne:minerva-rest
  name: Minerva Access DSpace REST API
  description: DSpace 7.6 REST/HAL API backing the Minerva Access institutional repository, exposing communities, collections,
    items and bitstreams as HAL+JSON resources. The API root is publicly reachable and self-describes its endpoints. Verified
    live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - REST
  - Library
  - DSpace
  - Open Data
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
- aid: university-of-melbourne:spatial-open-data
  name: Open Spatial Data Portal (ArcGIS Hub)
  description: University of Melbourne open spatial-data portal hosted on ArcGIS Hub for exploring and downloading campus
    GIS layers including building, road and tree-canopy footprints. Datasets are served through the standard ArcGIS Hub /
    ArcGIS REST query and download APIs (GeoJSON, CSV, Shapefile, KML). Portal verified live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://spatialdata-uom.opendata.arcgis.com/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - GIS
  - Geospatial
  - ArcGIS
  - Spatial
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spatialdata-uom.opendata.arcgis.com/
- aid: university-of-melbourne:boomi-developer-portal
  name: Internal API Management Developer Portal (Boomi) — Gated
  description: The University of Melbourne operates a Boomi-based API management developer portal providing self-service access
    to internal data APIs for staff and students. This portal is gated behind university authentication and is not publicly
    documented; no public endpoints, base URL or sign-up could be confirmed. Listed here honestly as a known but non-public
    API surface.
  humanURL: https://boomi.com/blog/university-of-melbourne-innovates-with-api-driven-strategy/
  tags:
  - API Management
  - Boomi
  - Internal
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://boomi.com/blog/university-of-melbourne-innovates-with-api-driven-strategy/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/unimelb
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-melbourne/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://sso.unimelb.edu.au/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-melbourne-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-melbourne-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-melbourne-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com