University of Padua

aid: university-of-padua
name: University of Padua
description: 'The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova) is a public research university in Padua, Italy,
  founded in 1222 and ranked #236 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is centered
  on the University Library System (SBA) rather than a single official developer portal: PHAIDRA, the digital-collections
  platform, exposes a documented REST API (OpenAPI), a IIIF image service, and an OAI-PMH endpoint, while the EPrints-based
  Padua@Research and Research Data Unipd repositories provide OAI-PMH metadata harvesting. Authentication across university
  services is delivered through a Shibboleth/SAML Single Sign-On integrated with the IDEM GARR federation and eduGAIN. There
  is no central institutional GitHub organization for the university as a whole; public code lives in individual lab and department
  orgs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Research Data
- Library
- Repository
- Italy
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-padua:phaidra
  name: PHAIDRA Digital Collections REST API
  description: PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System's platform for the management, consultation, and long-term
    archiving of digital objects and collections (images, texts, books, videos). It exposes a documented REST API (Mojolicious/Perl)
    described by an OpenAPI definition, including object metadata endpoints such as /api/object/{pid}/index/dc. Verified live
    at time of review.
  humanURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api
  tags:
  - Library
  - Digital Collections
  - REST
  - OpenAPI
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/openapi
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/openapi
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-padua-phaidra.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-padua-object_info-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-padua-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-padua-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-padua-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-padua:phaidra-iiif
  name: PHAIDRA IIIF Image API
  description: PHAIDRA serves digital images through an IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) image server,
    enabling standards-based deep zoom and image delivery for the university's digital collections.
  humanURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/imageserver
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Images
  - Library
  - Digital Collections
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/openapi
- aid: university-of-padua:phaidra-oai
  name: PHAIDRA OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the PHAIDRA digital collections, allowing programmatic harvesting
    of Dublin Core and related metadata. Verified live (verb=Identify returns HTTP 200) at time of review.
  humanURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Library
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-padua:padua-research-oai
  name: Padua@Research OAI-PMH
  description: Padua@Research (Padua Research Archive) is an EPrints-based institutional repository of the University of Padua's
    scientific production. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface; full text of some items is restricted
    to registered users. Verified live at time of review.
  humanURL: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - EPrints
  - Research
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-padua:researchdata-oai
  name: Research Data Unipd OAI-PMH
  description: Research Data Unipd is the EPrints-based research-data archive of the University of Padua, supporting data
    discovery, sharing, and reuse using DataCite and Dublin Core metadata. It is an OpenAIRE content provider and is registered
    in re3data, OpenDOAR, and FAIRsharing. Exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (repositoryName "Research Data Unipd"), verified
    live at time of review.
  humanURL: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/
  baseURL: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  - EPrints
  - Repository
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-padua:sso
  name: Single Sign-On (Shibboleth/SAML)
  description: The University of Padua provides centralized authentication via a Shibboleth-based Single Sign-On, integrated
    with the IDEM GARR federation and eduGAIN. Service Provider integration and SAML metadata parameters are documented for
    technical staff; this is institutional federated identity infrastructure, not a self-service public API.
  humanURL: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://registrazionisp.ict.unipd.it/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unipd.it/en
- type: Library
  url: https://biblio.unipd.it/en
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://it.linkedin.com/school/university-of-padova/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com