University of Padua

aid: university-of-padua
name: University of Padua
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova) is a public research university in Padua, Italy,
  founded in 1222. It operates no central developer portal and publishes no institution-authored API contract: an "API first"
  programme exists internally, routed through the IUNGO integration infrastructure and a GovWay API gateway, but the catalogue
  of REST web services it promises is not public and access runs through a helpdesk ticket. What Padua does operate, and what
  this profile records, is protocol infrastructure rather than product APIs — four live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoints on its own hosts
  (the IRIS research catalogue, the Research Data Unipd data archive, the theses archive, and PHAIDRA), and a Shibboleth Identity
  Provider publishing SAML 2.0 metadata into the IDEM GARR federation and eduGAIN. The one documented REST API on a Padua
  host, PHAIDRA''s, is the contract of the PHAIDRA open-source repository platform developed at the University of Vienna,
  not Padua engineering; it is recorded here as a deployment and its specification is deliberately not held under this slug.
  An institutional Open Data portal was announced in December 2024 but has not launched — no open-data host resolves. There
  is no institutional GitHub organisation; github.com/unipd exists but holds zero public repositories.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Institution-hosted protocol endpoints · no product API
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open harvesting endpoints, no signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-padua.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-padua/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Italy
- Europe
- Public Research University
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Digital Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-padua:phaidra-unipd
  name: PHAIDRA at Padua (deployment)
  description: 'PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System''s digital-collections repository, holding the institution''s
    digitised images, documents, books and video. The data, the objects and the persistent identifiers are Padua''s, and the
    service runs on Padua''s own infrastructure at phaidra.unipd.it (phaidra.cab.unipd.it redirects there). The REST API it
    exposes — including its IIIF image server at /api/imageserver and its OAI-PMH endpoint at /api/oai — is the contract of
    the PHAIDRA open-source repository platform developed at the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api, Apache-2.0),
    shipped identically by other PHAIDRA institutions. The page source at phaidra.unipd.it states it itself: "This repository
    is powered by PHAIDRA — free open source software". The deployment is recorded here; the product''s specification is not
    held under this slug, because it is not Padua''s engineering to be credited with.'
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-note: Shared contract. Title normalises to "PHAIDRA … API" and the identical document is shipped by University
    of Vienna at services.phaidra.univie.ac.at. Self-hosting on an institution domain does not make a product's contract the
    institution's.
  x-platform: PHAIDRA (University of Vienna, Apache-2.0)
  humanURL: https://phaidra.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api
  tags:
  - Digital Collections
  - Repository
  - IIIF
  - OAI-PMH
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/openapi
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
  - type: IIIF
    url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/imageserver
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api
- aid: university-of-padua:iris-unipd-oai
  name: IRIS UNIPD OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for IRIS UNIPD, the University of Padua''s institutional research catalogue
    of scientific production. Live and anonymous: verb=Identify returns HTTP 200 with repositoryName "IRIS - UNIPD - prod",
    adminEmail catalogo.pubblicazioni@unipd.it and an earliestDatestamp of 2011-11-02. Offers oai_dc, didl and ore metadata
    prefixes. This endpoint replaces the Padua@Research (paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it) endpoint recorded in the June 2026 profile,
    which no longer exists — that host now redirects here and its /cgi/oai2 path returns 404. The underlying platform is Cineca''s
    IRIS; the OAI-PMH interface is a public protocol endpoint operated on the institution''s own host, and no vendor contract
    is held for it.'
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://www.research.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://www.research.unipd.it/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Repository
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://www.research.unipd.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.research.unipd.it/
- aid: university-of-padua:researchdata-unipd-oai
  name: Research Data Unipd OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for Research Data Unipd, the EPrints-based research-data archive of the University
    of Padua. Live and anonymous: verb=Identify returns HTTP 200 with repositoryName "Research Data Unipd", adminEmail researchdata@cab.unipd.it
    and an earliestDatestamp of 2019-01-08. verb=ListMetadataFormats offers oai_datacite alongside oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_bibl,
    rdf and uketd_dc, which is the institution''s one probe-verifiable DataCite conformance. Note the canonical host is researchdata.cab.unipd.it;
    https on that name presents a certificate whose subject does not match, so harvesters see a TLS hostname mismatch.'
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  - DataCite
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://biblio.unipd.it/en/digital-library/about-publishing/open-research-data
- aid: university-of-padua:thesis-unipd-oai
  name: Padua Theses and Dissertations OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the University of Padua theses and dissertations archive. Live and anonymous
    at /oai/request (verb=Identify returns HTTP 200); the EPrints-style /cgi/oai2 path on this host is a soft-404 that answers
    HTTP 200 with an error page, so status code alone is not evidence here. verb=ListMetadataFormats offers datacite alongside
    oai_dc, didl and ore. Newly recorded in the 2026-08-30 pass; the June 2026 profile missed it entirely.
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://thesis.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://thesis.unipd.it/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Theses
  - Repository
  - DataCite
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://thesis.unipd.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://thesis.unipd.it/
- aid: university-of-padua:shibboleth-idp
  name: University of Padova Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML metadata)
  description: The University of Padua operates its own Shibboleth Identity Provider and publishes its SAML 2.0 metadata anonymously
    at https://shibidp.cca.unipd.it/idp/shibboleth — HTTP 200, application/xml, 17,853 bytes, entityID "https://shibidp.cca.unipd.it/idp/shibboleth",
    OrganizationName "Università degli Studi di Padova". The document declares SingleSignOnService endpoints for the HTTP-POST,
    HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and HTTP-Redirect bindings, plus mdui display names and an InformationURL pointing at the institution's
    IDEM page. Padua participates in IDEM GARR and, through it, eduGAIN. This is institution-operated identity infrastructure
    by definition and is the most complete machine-readable artifact the institution publishes — it is not a self-service
    API and issues no keys.
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://www.unipd.it/en/idem
  baseURL: https://shibidp.cca.unipd.it/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - eduGAIN
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://shibidp.cca.unipd.it/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.unipd.it/en/idem
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
  - type: Signup
    url: https://registrazionisp.ict.unipd.it/
common:
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unipd.it/en
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://biblio.unipd.it/en
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://www.research.unipd.it/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://thesis.unipd.it/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://www.unipd.it/en/idem
- type: Authentication
  url: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.unipd.it/en/policy-ateneo
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://wwwassets.unipd.it/sites/default/files/2026-04/LineeGuidaImpiegoAI_nella_ricerca_Unipd_ITA_rev20260414.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.unipd.it/en/privacy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://it.linkedin.com/school/university-of-padova/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-padua-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-padua-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-padua-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-padua-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-padua-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Probed 2026-08-30 across every surface class a university actually operates. The University of Padua publishes
    no institution-authored API contract and no developer portal. Its "API first" programme is real but internal: the Applications
    Office routes integrations through IUNGO and a GovWay API gateway, and the promised catalogue of REST web services is
    reachable only by helpdesk ticket, with no public URL or documentation. The Open Data portal announced by ASIT in December
    2024 has not launched — dati.unipd.it and opendata.unipd.it do not resolve, and www.unipd.it/opendata redirects to the
    homepage. The former course/timetable host didattica.unipd.it now serves a "dismesso" (decommissioned) notice; the student
    system at uniweb.unipd.it is a Cineca ESSE3 tenant with no public interface. What Padua does operate is protocol infrastructure:
    four live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoints on its own hosts and a Shibboleth IdP publishing SAML 2.0 metadata into IDEM GARR / eduGAIN.
    The one documented REST API on a Padua host is PHAIDRA''s, and PHAIDRA is an open-source platform from the University
    of Vienna shipped identically by other institutions, so its contract is recorded as a tenant-style deployment and is not
    held under this slug. www.unipd.it answers HTTP 200 with the homepage for every unknown path, so security.txt and llms.txt
    read as present by status code and are absent in fact.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/openapi/json
    status: 200
    note: Live PHAIDRA OpenAPI, 180,319 bytes application/json. Title "PHAIDRA … API"; the same document ships at University
      of Vienna. Product contract, not Padua's — not saved here.
  - url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/
    status: 200
    note: Page source carries the comment "This repository is powered by PHAIDRA — free open source software", stating the
      platform's third-party origin in the institution's own markup.
  - url: https://shibidp.cca.unipd.it/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
    note: SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth IdP metadata, application/xml, 17,853 bytes, entityID https://shibidp.cca.unipd.it/idp/shibboleth,
      OrganizationName "Università degli Studi di Padova". Institution-operated. The strongest artifact in this profile.
  - url: https://www.research.unipd.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, repositoryName "IRIS - UNIPD - prod". Institution-hosted.
  - url: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, repositoryName "Research Data Unipd"; ListMetadataFormats offers oai_datacite. TLS certificate subject
      does not match this hostname.
  - url: https://thesis.unipd.it/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0 for the theses archive; ListMetadataFormats offers datacite. Newly found.
  - url: https://thesis.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: Soft-404 — HTTP 200 serving error404.htm. Status code alone is not evidence on this host.
  - url: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 404
    note: DEAD. The Padua@Research endpoint recorded in the June 2026 profile no longer exists; https on this host fails certificate
      verification, and the host now redirects to www.research.unipd.it. Removed from apis[].
  - url: https://asit.unipd.it/servizi/sviluppo-software/integrazioni
    status: 200
    note: Documents the internal "API first" programme, the IUNGO integration infrastructure and the GovWay API gateway. No
      public endpoints, no documentation, access by helpdesk ticket only.
  - url: https://asit.unipd.it/nuovo-portale-open-data-universit-padova
    status: 200
    note: Announcement dated 2024-12-12 of a forthcoming Open Data portal. No portal URL is given and none has launched.
  - url: https://dati.unipd.it/
    status: 0
    note: Does not resolve. No open data portal. opendata.unipd.it also does not resolve.
  - url: https://www.unipd.it/opendata
    status: 200
    note: Redirects to the homepage — soft-404, not an open data page.
  - url: https://didattica.unipd.it/
    status: 200
    note: Serves a "Didattica | dismesso" decommissioned notice. No course-catalog or timetable data interface exists on a
      unipd.it host.
  - url: https://api.unipd.it/
    status: 0
    note: Does not resolve. No public API host.
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/unipd
    status: 200
    note: The github.com/unipd organisation exists but has public_repos 0 and no name, description or website. Not a credible
      institutional GitHub organisation; no GitHubOrganization pointer is emitted.
  - url: https://www.unipd.it/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
    note: Soft-200. Returns the 2,035,693-byte homepage, byte-identical to https://www.unipd.it/. No security.txt exists.
      Same for /llms.txt.
  - url: https://www.unipd.it/en/idem
    status: 200
    note: Institutional IDEM GARR federated-identity page, naming the IdP support contact and the attributes released to service
      providers.
  - url: https://www.unipd.it/en/policy-ateneo
    status: 200
    note: Institutional policy hub carrying the GenAI policies; the AI research guidelines PDF (LineeGuidaImpiegoAI_nella_ricerca_Unipd_ITA_rev20260414.pdf)
      returns 200 application/pdf, 360,369 bytes. Governance documents, not API artifacts.
  - url: https://it.linkedin.com/school/university-of-padova/
    status: 999
    note: LinkedIn bot challenge. Live, not dead.
  checked: '2026-08-30'
x-enrichment:
  pipeline: pipeline-university
  contract: 0-working/pipeline-university.md
  run: '2026-08-30'
  note: Re-profiled under the university pipeline's operator axis. Fourteen PHAIDRA OpenAPIs and every artifact derived from
    them (57 files) were removed as a shared product contract; four institution-operated OAI-PMH endpoints and the Shibboleth
    IdP were verified live; one dead endpoint was removed. A lower score after this pass is the correction, not a regression.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com