University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill
name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
description: 'The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a leading public research university in Chapel Hill, North
  Carolina, United States, ranked #155 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is
  centered on research and open-data infrastructure rather than a single unified developer portal: UNC Dataverse exposes a
  live, documented native REST API for social-science and research data (running Dataverse 6.8), the campus ArcGIS Hub open-data
  site publishes geospatial data through DCAT-US feeds and ArcGIS REST services, and the UNC Libraries software-development
  team maintains a public GitHub organization with the box-c Digital Collections Repository and other open-source tooling.
  Most administrative and student-information-system APIs (such as the Facilities SPOTS REST API and campus single sign-on)
  are gated behind Onyen/Shibboleth authentication.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Data
- Geospatial
- Digital Library
- United States
- North Carolina
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:dataverse
  name: UNC Dataverse API
  description: Native REST API for UNC Dataverse, the university's research data repository supported by the Office of the
    Vice Chancellor for Research. The API supports searching, depositing, downloading and managing datasets and dataverse
    collections, and is documented as part of the open-source Dataverse software (the live instance reports version 6.8 via
    /api/info/version).
  humanURL: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  baseURL: https://dataverse.unc.edu/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Dataverse
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://dataverse.unc.edu/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-dataverse.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-info-version-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-dataset-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-info-version-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-info-version-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-search-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:gis-opendata
  name: UNC GIS Open Data Hub
  description: UNC-Chapel Hill's ArcGIS Hub open-data site publishing geospatial and institutional datasets. Data is programmatically
    accessible via ArcGIS Hub DCAT-US 1.1 catalog feeds and the underlying ArcGIS REST / GeoServices endpoints (GeoJSON, CSV,
    and feature service queries).
  humanURL: https://gisdata-uncadmin.opendata.arcgis.com/
  baseURL: https://gisdata-uncadmin.opendata.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-us/1.1.json
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - GIS
  - Open Data
  - ArcGIS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://gisdata-uncadmin.opendata.arcgis.com/
- aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:digital-collections
  name: UNC Libraries Digital Collections Repository (box-c)
  description: The UNC Libraries Digital Collections Repository, powered by the open-source box-c application maintained by
    the UNC Libraries software development team on GitHub. Provides web access to digitized special collections; the application
    source and supporting tooling are publicly available, and the platform participates in standard library interoperability
    patterns.
  humanURL: https://dc.lib.unc.edu/
  tags:
  - Digital Library
  - Repository
  - Special Collections
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dc.lib.unc.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/UNC-Libraries/box-c
- aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:spots
  name: Facilities SPOTS REST API
  description: REST API for the Space Planning and Occupancy Tracking System (SPOTS) provided by UNC Facilities Services for
    campus space and occupancy data. Documentation is gated behind UNC Onyen single sign-on and is not publicly accessible;
    listed here for completeness.
  humanURL: https://facilities.unc.edu/resources/mapping-and-space/spots-rest-api/
  tags:
  - Facilities
  - Space Management
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://facilities.unc.edu/resources/mapping-and-space/spots-rest-api/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unc.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/unc-libraries
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/unc-chapel-hill/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://sso.unc.edu/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com