# University of Ottawa

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-ottawa/  
**Website:** https://www.uottawa.ca/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) is a public bilingual research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the largest English-French bilingual university in the world. It is ranked #189 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in the library's institutional repository, uO Research (Recherche uO Research), which runs on DSpace 7.6.5 and exposes both a public DSpace REST/HATEOAS API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. uOttawa does not operate a single unified public developer portal; most enterprise and student-information systems are gated behind institutional SSO.

## Kin Score — 18.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **uO Research DSpace REST API** — Public DSpace 7.6.5 REST/HATEOAS API for uO Research (Recherche uO Research), the University of Ottawa's institutional repository. The API root reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6...
- **uO Research OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for uO Research. An Identify request confirms protocol version 2.0 and repository name "Recherche uO Research", supporting standard verb...

## Security (1)

- **University Of Ottawa Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Ottawa Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Canada, Bilingual, Library, Institutional Repository, DSpace, OAI-PMH, Open Access

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-ottawa/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.