University of Minnesota

aid: university-of-minnesota
name: University of Minnesota
description: 'The University of Minnesota is a public land-grant research university with its flagship campus in the Twin
  Cities (Minneapolis-Saint Paul), ranked #203 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its developer/API footprint is led
  by the OIT Integrations Team, which publishes a suite of "Common Good APIs" sourced from the University''s Common Data Layer
  (CDL) covering person, HR, student, class, and organization data; access requires request and data-custodian approval. Additional
  public-facing APIs include the University Libraries digital collection APIs (UMedia JSON and IIIF) and GEMS Informatics
  agricultural/geospatial data APIs. Most data APIs are gated behind access requests and institutional authentication.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Geospatial
- United States
- Minnesota
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-minnesota:common-good-apis
  name: Common Good APIs
  description: A suite of APIs published by the OIT Integrations Team providing access to frequently used and requested University
    data sourced from the Common Data Layer (CDL). Includes Person Basic Information, Class Information, Employee Information,
    Student Academic, Organization Information, HR Information, Term Information, and more. Public-classified APIs require
    minimal approval; private/restricted/highly-restricted APIs require data-custodian approval. Endpoints are served from
    a Boomi integration gateway.
  humanURL: https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/integration-apis/common-good-apis
  baseURL: https://integration-boomi.umn.edu/prd/ws/rest/
  tags:
  - Integration
  - Student
  - HR
  - Employee
  - Identity
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/integration-apis/common-good-apis
  - type: Signup
    url: https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/integration-apis/home
- aid: university-of-minnesota:umedia-digital-collections
  name: UMedia Digital Collection APIs
  description: University of Minnesota Libraries APIs for programmatically downloading items, text, and metadata from the
    UMedia digital collections. Includes a JSON API for metadata/text and an IIIF API for still images and other digital objects.
    Documentation is published in a public GitHub repository.
  humanURL: https://github.com/UMNLibraries/digital_collection_apis
  tags:
  - Library
  - Digital Collections
  - IIIF
  - Metadata
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/UMNLibraries/digital_collection_apis
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/UMNLibraries/digital_collection_apis
- aid: university-of-minnesota:gems-exchange-apis
  name: GEMS Informatics Exchange APIs
  description: A collection of agricultural and geospatial data APIs from GEMS Informatics at the University of Minnesota,
    including Climate, Weather, Soils, Hydro, Elevation, Land Cover, Crop Calendar, Market accessibility, and Biotic Risk
    Geography. API keys are generated via the GEMS GitHub Exchange Notebooks repository; free-trial usage is limited to personal
    research.
  humanURL: https://gems.umn.edu/gems-exchange-apis
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - Agriculture
  - Climate
  - Weather
  - Research
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://gems.umn.edu/gems-exchange-apis
  - type: Signup
    url: https://github.com/GEMS-UMN/Exchange-Notebooks
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/GEMS-UMN
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://twin-cities.umn.edu
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UMNLibraries
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-minnesota/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/integration-apis/home
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/GEMS-UMN
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-minnesota-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-minnesota-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-minnesota-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com