# University of Padua

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-padua/  
**Website:** https://www.unipd.it/en  
**APIs profiled:** 19

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.

## Kin Score — 33.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 57.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (19)

- **PHAIDRA IIIF Image API** — PHAIDRA serves digital images through an IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) image server, enabling standards-based deep zoom and image delivery for the univer...
- **PHAIDRA OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the PHAIDRA digital collections, allowing programmatic harvesting of Dublin Core and related metadata. Verified live (verb=Identify retu...
- **Padua@Research OAI-PMH** — 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 harve...
- **Research Data Unipd OAI-PMH** — 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....
- **Single Sign-On (Shibboleth/SAML)** — The University of Padua provides centralized authentication via a Shibboleth-based Single Sign-On, integrated with the IDEM GARR federation and eduGAIN. Service Provider integra...
- **University of Padua datastream API** — Requests for transforming and validating datastreams
- **University of Padua directory API** — Requests related to users, user groups and organisation structure
- **University of Padua imageserver API** — Requests to the imageserver
- **University of Padua lists API** — Requests for manipulating object lists
- **University of Padua misc API** — The misc API from University of Padua — 7 operation(s) for misc.
- **University of Padua oai-pmh API** — Look at the [OAI-PMH protocol](https://www.openarchives.org/pmh) used in this endpoint
- **University of Padua object-advanced API** — Additional requests for the manipulation of digital objects
- **University of Padua object-basics API** — Most important requests you'll need to manage digital objects in PHAIDRA
- **University of Padua relationships API** — Requests for adding and removing object relationships
- **University of Padua search API** — The search API from University of Padua — 1 operation(s) for search.
- **University of Padua session API** — Session management
- **University of Padua stats API** — The stats API from University of Padua — 4 operation(s) for stats.
- **University of Padua templates API** — Requests for managing metadata templates
- **University of Padua vocabularies API** — Requests for controlled vocabularies

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Padua Agentic Access** — 146 operations · 77 acting

## Security (2)

- **University Of Padua Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **University Of Padua Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Padua Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Open Data, Research Data, Library, Repository, Italy

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