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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate public research university in Oxford, United Kingdom, and a Russell Group member. It operates no central developer programme, no API portal, no developer account and no authenticated API of any kind — and the one it used to run, the Open Data Service at data.ox.ac.uk with OxPoints linked data, places, courses and vacancies over REST and SPARQL, was decommissioned without a successor; that domain and the Mobile Oxford API host no longer resolve. What Oxford does operate, entirely inside its library and research-infrastructure estate, is more substantial than that absence suggests: the Bodleian Libraries run a conformant IIIF stack at iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (Image API 2.1 level 2, Presentation API 2.1 and a Change Discovery 1.0 activity stream over 21,843 items), two independent OAI-PMH data providers (ORA and the Oxford Text Archive), an undocumented but live JSON search API over the institutional repository, and a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation and eduGAIN alongside 35 federated service providers across central IT, departments and colleges. Four of the twelve education-regime domain standards are evidenced directly in what those endpoints return: OAI-PMH, DataCite, ORCID and SAML/Shibboleth. Set against that, four significant surfaces carrying Oxford's name are vendor contracts running under a tenancy and are recorded here as such rather than credited to the University: the Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal at portal.sds.ox.ac.uk is Figshare, SOLO is Ex Libris Primo VE, the VLE is Instructure Canvas, and recruitment is CoreHR. Nothing Oxford operates is documented with a machine-readable contract; every OpenAPI and schema in this repository was derived by API Evangelist from live responses and is marked as such.

University of Oxford publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including IIIF API, OAI PMH API, Repository API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Research, and United Kingdom.

The University of Oxford catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

University of Oxford’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, GitHub presence, status page, support, engineering blog, code examples, and 35 more developer resources.

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UniversityHigher EducationEducationResearchUnited KingdomRussell GroupResearch RepositoryLibraryDigital CollectionsIIIFOAI-PMHIdentity FederationOpen AccessResearch Computing

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APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

University of Oxford Shibboleth Identity Provider

A SAML 2.0 identity provider serving live machine-readable metadata, with Redirect/SSO, POST/SSO, POST-SimpleSign/SSO, POST/SLO and SOAP/Redirect/SLO bindings and a signing cert...

Oxford Continuing Education WordPress REST API

The public WordPress REST API of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, live and anonymous on the read paths. Recorded honestly for what it is: a content-management platf...

Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal (Figshare tenancy)

Oxford's research data portal runs on Figshare under an Oxford-owned hostname. The data, the DOI prefix and the collection are Oxford's; the contract, the API and the engineerin...

SOLO library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)

The Bodleian Libraries' discovery layer is Ex Libris Primo VE. Any Primo or Alma REST API reachable under this tenancy is Ex Libris's contract governing Oxford's holdings, not a...

Oxford Canvas VLE (Instructure tenancy)

Oxford's virtual learning environment, replacing the retired WebLearn Sakai service. The Canvas LMS REST API and Canvas's LTI and Caliper conformance belong to Instructure. The ...

Oxford recruitment (CoreHR tenancy)

Vacancies were once part of Oxford's own open-data programme; they are now a CoreHR application reached through an Oxford vanity hostname. The redirect target leaves the ox.ac.u...

University of Oxford IIIF API

IIIF Image, Presentation and Change Discovery endpoints.

University of Oxford OAI PMH API

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting verbs.

University of Oxford Repository API

Search and retrieval of ORA repository records.

University of Oxford Text Archive API

OAI-PMH harvesting of Oxford Text Archive records.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

University Of Oxford Context

14 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

University of Oxford API Rules

19 rules · 17 errors 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ORA Object Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ORA Search Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 7

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

University Of Oxford Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

University Of Oxford Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Documentation 9

Reference material describing how the API behaves

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Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: university-of-oxford
name: University of Oxford
description: 'The University of Oxford is a collegiate public research university in Oxford, United Kingdom, and a Russell
  Group member. It operates no central developer programme, no API portal, no developer account and no authenticated API of
  any kind — and the one it used to run, the Open Data Service at data.ox.ac.uk with OxPoints linked data, places, courses
  and vacancies over REST and SPARQL, was decommissioned without a successor; that domain and the Mobile Oxford API host no
  longer resolve. What Oxford does operate, entirely inside its library and research-infrastructure estate, is more substantial
  than that absence suggests: the Bodleian Libraries run a conformant IIIF stack at iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (Image API 2.1
  level 2, Presentation API 2.1 and a Change Discovery 1.0 activity stream over 21,843 items), two independent OAI-PMH data
  providers (ORA and the Oxford Text Archive), an undocumented but live JSON search API over the institutional repository,
  and a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation and eduGAIN alongside 35 federated
  service providers across central IT, departments and colleges. Four of the twelve education-regime domain standards are
  evidenced directly in what those endpoints return: OAI-PMH, DataCite, ORCID and SAML/Shibboleth. Set against that, four
  significant surfaces carrying Oxford''s name are vendor contracts running under a tenancy and are recorded here as such
  rather than credited to the University: the Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal at portal.sds.ox.ac.uk
  is Figshare, SOLO is Ex Libris Primo VE, the VLE is Instructure Canvas, and recruitment is CoreHR. Nothing Oxford operates
  is documented with a machine-readable contract; every OpenAPI and schema in this repository was derived by API Evangelist
  from live responses and is marked as such.'
type: Index
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Free
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-19'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-oxford.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- United Kingdom
- Russell Group
- Research Repository
- Library
- Digital Collections
- IIIF
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Open Access
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: institution_operated_surfaces_verified
  detail: 'Every surface in this profile was probed live on 2026-08-19 and its operator settled before anything was saved.
    Six institution-operated surfaces were confirmed on University of Oxford registrable domains and four vendor tenancies
    were identified and recorded as relationships rather than as Oxford''s contracts. Oxford publishes no machine-readable
    API contract anywhere, so the four OpenAPI documents and three JSON Schemas in this repository are DERIVED from live responses
    and marked method: derived; the payloads they were derived from are stored verbatim in examples/. Two limits on this coverage
    are worth stating. First, the entire www.ox.ac.uk web estate sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge and returns 403
    with cf-mitigated: challenge to every non-browser client, including /.well-known/security.txt — those hosts are LIVE and
    bot-mitigated, not dead, and any surface documented only in prose on that estate could not be machine-read. Second, portal.sds.ox.ac.uk
    and the Figshare platform behind it return an AWS WAF challenge, so the tenancy was settled by DNS (CNAME to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com)
    and by the DataCite registry (client figshare.oxford, 155,787 DOIs resolving to portal.sds.ox.ac.uk) rather than by reading
    the portal itself. A third limit is about our tooling rather than about Oxford, and is recorded so it is not rediscovered
    the hard way: audit-university-contracts.py classifies by registrable domain, so it reads portal.sds.ox.ac.uk, canvas.ox.ac.uk
    and www.recruit.ox.ac.uk as institution-operated. All three are vendor tenancies behind vanity hostnames, and because
    a vanity hostname is unique to one institution it can never trip the script''s cohort-shared-host test for `vendor` either.
    Three of Oxford''s four tenancies sit in that blind spot; only SOLO, which points at oxford.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, is
    caught. The x-operator values in this file were settled by DNS resolution and are authoritative over the script''s hostname
    heuristic.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects.json?q=climate
    status: 200
  - url: https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/activity/all-changes
    status: 200
  - url: https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ox.ac.uk/
    status: 403
    note: Cloudflare managed challenge, cf-mitigated:challenge — live, not dead.
  - url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/opensearch.xml
    status: 403
    note: Cloudflare managed challenge on an OpenSearch descriptor Oxford links from its own API page.
  - url: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/
    status: 202
    note: AWS WAF challenge (x-amzn-waf-action:challenge) on the Figshare tenancy.
  - url: https://data.ox.ac.uk/
    status: 0
    note: Decommissioned Open Data Service — no A/AAAA record.
  - url: https://api.m.ox.ac.uk/
    status: 0
    note: Decommissioned Mobile Oxford API — NXDOMAIN.
apis:
- aid: university-of-oxford:shibboleth-idp
  name: University of Oxford Shibboleth Identity Provider
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Registered in eduGAIN as https://registry.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk/idp, IDPSSODescriptor, display name "University
    of Oxford", registration authority http://ukfederation.org.uk. An identity provider is institution-operated by definition
    — it asserts the institution's own identities.
  description: 'A SAML 2.0 identity provider serving live machine-readable metadata, with Redirect/SSO, POST/SSO, POST-SimpleSign/SSO,
    POST/SLO and SOAP/Redirect/SLO bindings and a signing certificate rotated 2026-05-15. Oxford is registered in the UK Access
    Management Federation and eduGAIN with one production and two test identity providers, plus 35 service providers spanning
    central IT, departments and colleges — All Souls, Worcester, Lincoln, Keble, St Hilda''s, Brasenose, Exeter, St John''s,
    Continuing Education, NDORMS, Structural Biology, Statistics and the Text Archive among them. Caveat recorded rather than
    hidden: the document served at the metadata URL is the Shibboleth software''s built-in self-description and still carries
    the product''s default placeholder display name and an internal node entityID; the federation registration, not that document,
    is the authoritative identity.'
  humanURL: https://technical.edugain.org/entities
  baseURL: https://idp.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk/idp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - eduGAIN
  properties:
  - type: Metadata
    url: https://idp.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-oxford-domain-standards.yml
- aid: university-of-oxford:conted-wp-rest
  name: Oxford Continuing Education WordPress REST API
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk is a University of Oxford registrable domain, operated by the Department
    for Continuing Education. WordPress is self-hosted open-source software.
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API of Oxford''s Department for Continuing Education, live and anonymous on the
    read paths. Recorded honestly for what it is: a content-management platform default, not a designed institutional API,
    and not a course-catalog contract. It is included because it is a real, live, machine-readable surface on an Oxford-owned
    domain and this profile does not pad or hide either way.'
  humanURL: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/wp-json
  tags:
  - Content
  - Continuing Education
  - WordPress
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/
  - type: Website
    url: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-oxford:sds-figshare-tenancy
  name: Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal (Figshare tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: portal.sds.ox.ac.uk CNAMEs to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com. The DataCite repository client figshare.oxford,
    name "University of Oxford", has minted 155,787 DOIs under the 10.25446/oxford prefix, and those DOIs resolve to portal.sds.ox.ac.uk
    article pages.
  description: 'Oxford''s research data portal runs on Figshare under an Oxford-owned hostname. The data, the DOI prefix and
    the collection are Oxford''s; the contract, the API and the engineering are Figshare''s. No Figshare specification is
    stored in this repository — that is exactly the misattribution this cohort was re-profiled to remove — and the relationship
    is recorded here instead, which is the correct place for it. Note also a false lead worth leaving on the record: oxford.figshare.com
    appears to resolve, but *.figshare.com is a wildcard and a deliberately nonsensical subdomain returns the identical AWS
    WAF challenge, so that host is NOT evidence of anything. The tenancy is at portal.sds.ox.ac.uk.'
  humanURL: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Research Repository
  - Tenant
  - Figshare
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: Vendor
    url: https://figshare.com/
- aid: university-of-oxford:solo-primo-tenancy
  name: SOLO library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk CNAMEs to oxford.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and redirects to a Primo VE discovery
    view with the institution code vid=44OXF_INST:SOLO.
  description: The Bodleian Libraries' discovery layer is Ex Libris Primo VE. Any Primo or Alma REST API reachable under this
    tenancy is Ex Libris's contract governing Oxford's holdings, not an Oxford API. Recorded as a relationship; no Ex Libris
    specification is stored here.
  humanURL: https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://oxford.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Tenant
  - Ex Libris
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: Vendor
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/
- aid: university-of-oxford:canvas-tenancy
  name: Oxford Canvas VLE (Instructure tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: canvas.ox.ac.uk CNAMEs to universityofoxford-vanity.instructure.com.
  description: Oxford's virtual learning environment, replacing the retired WebLearn Sakai service. The Canvas LMS REST API
    and Canvas's LTI and Caliper conformance belong to Instructure. The Canvas REST API is live under Oxford's hostname and
    returns 401 unauthenticated, and Instructure's own API reference is served at canvas.ox.ac.uk/doc/api/ — an Oxford host
    serving a vendor's contract, which is the tenant case in miniature. Recorded as a relationship precisely so that Instructure's
    LTI certification is never counted as an Oxford domain-standard conformance — see the not-claimed section of conformance/university-of-oxford-domain-standards.yml.
  humanURL: https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/doc/api/
  baseURL: https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/api/v1/accounts
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - Tenant
  - Canvas
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/doc/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: Vendor
    url: https://www.instructure.com/
- aid: university-of-oxford:recruit-corehr-tenancy
  name: Oxford recruitment (CoreHR tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: www.recruit.ox.ac.uk redirects to my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_search_package.search_form?p_company=10
    — a CoreHR-hosted application under an Oxford-specific path, not an Oxford host.
  description: 'Vacancies were once part of Oxford''s own open-data programme; they are now a CoreHR application reached through
    an Oxford vanity hostname. The redirect target leaves the ox.ac.uk domain entirely, which makes this the weakest of Oxford''s
    four tenancies — Oxford does not even own the host the user lands on. There is no callable API here at all: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit
    is a server-side web form that 403s any client arriving without the redirect from recruit.ox.ac.uk, so no API base URL
    is claimed for it.'
  humanURL: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Human Resources
  - Recruitment
  - Tenant
  - Core HR
  tags_raw:
  - Human Resources
  - Recruitment
  - Tenant
  - CoreHR
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-oxford:university-of-oxford-iiif-api
  name: University of Oxford IIIF API
  description: IIIF Image, Presentation and Change Discovery endpoints.
  humanURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2
  tags:
  - IIIF
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-oxford-iiif-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/terms_of_use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-search-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-object-schema.json
  - type: Website
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-bodleian-iiif-image-info-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/faq/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms/
  - type: Website
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: Website
    url: https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/
- aid: university-of-oxford:university-of-oxford-oai-pmh-api
  name: University of Oxford OAI PMH API
  description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting verbs.
  humanURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-oxford-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/terms_of_use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-search-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-object-schema.json
  - type: Website
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-bodleian-iiif-image-info-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/faq/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms/
  - type: Website
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: Website
    url: https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/
- aid: university-of-oxford:university-of-oxford-repository-api
  name: University of Oxford Repository API
  description: Search and retrieval of ORA repository records.
  humanURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-oxford-repository-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/terms_of_use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-search-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-object-schema.json
  - type: Website
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-bodleian-iiif-image-info-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/faq/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms/
  - type: Website
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: Website
    url: https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/
- aid: university-of-oxford:university-of-oxford-textarchive-api
  name: University of Oxford Text Archive API
  description: OAI-PMH harvesting of Oxford Text Archive records.
  humanURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2
  tags:
  - TextArchive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-oxford-textarchive-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/terms_of_use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-search-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-object-schema.json
  - type: Website
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-bodleian-iiif-image-info-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/faq/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms/
  - type: Website
    url: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
  - type: Website
    url: https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ox.ac.uk/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://arc-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://data.mrc.ox.ac.uk/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/using-ai-to-support-academic-work/university-policies
- type: AITooling
  url: https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/using-ai-to-support-academic-work
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ox-it
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/OxfordRSE
- type: Status
  url: https://status.it.ox.ac.uk/
- type: Support
  url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/terms_of_use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://glam.web.ox.ac.uk/privacy-policy-ora
- type: Policies
  url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/policies
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-oxford/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.oxrse.uk/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/university-of-oxford-ora-search-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/university-of-oxford-ora-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/university-of-oxford-bodleian-iiif-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/university-of-oxford-oxford-text-archive-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-search-response-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-object-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/university-of-oxford-bodleian-iiif-image-info-schema.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/index.yml
- type: Rules
  url: rules/university-of-oxford-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-oxford-vocabulary.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-oxford-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/university-of-oxford-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/university-of-oxford-errors.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-oxford-domain-standards.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/university-of-oxford-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-oxford-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-oxford-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-oxford-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-oxford-finops.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/university-of-oxford-context.jsonld
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Blogs
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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