University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, United Kingdom, and a member of the Russell Group. Its programmable footprint is small, decentralised and mostly indirect, and this profile says so rather than padding it. There is no central developer portal, no API gateway, no self-service key issuance and no documented course, timetable or student-information API. What the institution genuinely operates is one first-party research API — the Sheffield Solar API at api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk, which publishes its own OpenAPI 3.1 document and serves keyless PV_Live estimates of GB solar generation — and its own Shibboleth SAML identity provider at idp.shef.ac.uk, the authentication surface through which every bought platform is reached. Everything else that looks like a Sheffield API is a vendor's contract running under Sheffield's name: ORDA is figshare, White Rose Research Online and White Rose eTheses Online are EPrints instances shared with Leeds and York, and library discovery is Ex Libris Primo. Those are recorded here as tenant relationships, which they are, and not as Sheffield engineering, which they are not.

University of Sheffield publishes 14 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Admin API, API Auth API, Auth API, and 11 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, United Kingdom, and Russell Group.

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

University of Sheffield’s developer surface includes API reference, documentation, support, status page, authentication, and 25 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

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University Higher Education Education United Kingdom Russell Group Research Data Open Access OAI-PMH Identity Federation Solar Energy Energy Data Research Computing

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Research & Scholarship Management

BC-4780

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Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 45.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.4 / 15

Access Clarity 7.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 2.8 / 9

Discoverability 4.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Standards implemented 1

Interfaces this provider implements that became standards by being copied rather than ratified. Each is profiled by the API Commons, and the evidence column says how the claim was established — not that it was made.

SCIM 2.0

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

5 core of 24 operations graded · api-commons/identity

APIs 14

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

University of Sheffield Shibboleth Identity Provider

The institution's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idp.shef.ac.uk/shibboleth, serving live Shibboleth metadata from Sheffield's own domain. Machine-readable, ins...

ORDA — Online Research Data (figshare tenant)

ORDA is the University of Sheffield's research data repository at orda.shef.ac.uk. The records, the DOIs and the curation are Sheffield's; the platform and the API contract are ...

White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH

White Rose Research Online is the shared open-access outputs repository of the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, running on EPrints and administered by the White Rose c...

White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH

White Rose eTheses Online is the shared electronic theses repository of the same three universities, running on EPrints. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 interface Identifies as "White Rose eThe...

University of Sheffield Admin API

The admin API from University of Sheffield — 7 operation(s) for admin.

University of Sheffield API Auth API

The api-auth API from University of Sheffield — 3 operation(s) for api-auth.

University of Sheffield Auth API

The auth API from University of Sheffield — 6 operation(s) for auth.

University of Sheffield Health API

The health API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for health.

University of Sheffield Metrics API

The metrics API from University of Sheffield — 1 operation(s) for metrics.

University of Sheffield Pvforecast API

PV_Forecast API endpoints.

University of Sheffield Pvlive API

PV_Live API endpoints.

University of Sheffield Pvlive Eu API

PV_Live EU API endpoints.

University of Sheffield User API

The User API from University of Sheffield — 7 operation(s) for user.

University of Sheffield Users API

The users API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for users.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

University Of Sheffield Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Sheffield Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

University Of Sheffield Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

University Of Sheffield Context

4 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

University of Sheffield API Rules

10 rules · 3 errors 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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

PVLiveGenerationRow

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SheffieldSolarTabularResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

University Of Sheffield Pvforecast Auth Required Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

University Of Sheffield Pvlive Gsp Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

University Of Sheffield Pvlive Peakgeneration Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

University Of Sheffield Pvlive Pes List Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

University Of Sheffield Authentication

oauth2/apiKey/http/saml2 · 5 schemes

SECURITY

University Of Sheffield Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

University Of Sheffield Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Errors

Errors

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

LibraryCatalog

LibraryCatalog

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

SourceCode

SourceCode

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Status

Status

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

IdentityFederation

IdentityFederation

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

ResearchComputing

ResearchComputing

ResearchComputing

ResearchComputing

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: university-of-sheffield
name: University of Sheffield
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, United Kingdom, and a member of the
  Russell Group. Its programmable footprint is small, decentralised and mostly indirect, and this profile says so rather than
  padding it. There is no central developer portal, no API gateway, no self-service key issuance and no documented course,
  timetable or student-information API. What the institution genuinely operates is one first-party research API — the Sheffield
  Solar API at api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk, which publishes its own OpenAPI 3.1 document and serves keyless PV_Live estimates
  of GB solar generation — and its own Shibboleth SAML identity provider at idp.shef.ac.uk, the authentication surface through
  which every bought platform is reached. Everything else that looks like a Sheffield API is a vendor''s contract running
  under Sheffield''s name: ORDA is figshare, White Rose Research Online and White Rose eTheses Online are EPrints instances
  shared with Leeds and York, and library discovery is Ex Libris Primo. Those are recorded here as tenant relationships, which
  they are, and not as Sheffield engineering, which they are not.'
type: Index
position: Producing
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-sheffield.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sheffield/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United Kingdom
- Russell Group
- Research Data
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Solar Energy
- Energy Data
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Institution-hosted research API · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Keyless for PV_Live reads, registration for PV_Forecast
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  confidence: high
  source:
  - authentication
  - probed
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Sheffield does operate a real, first-party, machine-readable API surface, and it was found and verified: the Sheffield
    Solar API publishes its own OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/openapi.json and answers keyless
    requests, and the institution''s Shibboleth IdP serves live SAML 2.0 metadata from its own domain. The footprint is nonetheless
    narrow. No central developer portal, course catalog, timetable, campus-life or open-data API was found on any Sheffield
    host after probing api., data., courses. and sis. subdomains, all of which fail to resolve. The research repositories
    are real institutional facts but vendor-operated, and are recorded as tenant. ORDA''s own OAI-PMH endpoint is live but
    returns a Cloudflare 202 bot challenge to scripted clients, so its Identify response could not be read; that is a block
    on us, not a gap in Sheffield.'
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/api/v4/gsp/0
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvforecast/api/v4/gsp/0
    status: 401
  - url: https://idp.shef.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 202
  - url: https://api.sheffield.ac.uk/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.sheffield.ac.uk/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
x-attribution-correction:
  date: '2026-08-30'
  pipeline: pipeline-university
  removed:
    contracts: 10
    derived_artifacts: 36
    reason: 'The 2026-06-03 profile saved figshare''s own contract under Sheffield''s slug. openapi/_original/university-of-sheffield-orda.yaml
      declared ''info.title: Figshare API'', ''contact: Figshare Support'' and ''servers: [https://api.figshare.com/v2]''.
      refine-openapis then split it into ten per-tag specs, and eleven apis[] entries were registered against it — eleven
      times the apparent footprint for one vendor document that eleven other universities in this cohort also ship. Every
      schema, structure, example, ruleset, vocabulary, context, collection, scope, authentication and capability file in the
      repo was derived from it and inherited its provenance, so all of them were removed too.'
  retained_as_tenant:
  - ORDA (figshare)
  - White Rose Research Online (EPrints)
  - White Rose eTheses Online (EPrints)
  added_as_institution:
  - Sheffield Solar API
  - University of Sheffield Shibboleth Identity Provider
apis:
- aid: university-of-sheffield:shibboleth-idp
  name: University of Sheffield Shibboleth Identity Provider
  x-operator: institution
  description: The institution's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idp.shef.ac.uk/shibboleth, serving live
    Shibboleth metadata from Sheffield's own domain. Machine-readable, institution-operated by definition, and the access
    path through which Sheffield affiliates reach every vendor-tenanted service the university buys. Declares HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign,
    HTTP-Redirect and SOAP bindings for SAML 2.0 SSO and single logout, plus legacy SAML 1.1 endpoints. Verified live 2026-08-30,
    HTTP 200, application/xml.
  humanURL: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services
  baseURL: https://idp.shef.ac.uk/idp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Metadata
    url: https://idp.shef.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:orda
  name: ORDA — Online Research Data (figshare tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: ORDA is the University of Sheffield's research data repository at orda.shef.ac.uk. The records, the DOIs and
    the curation are Sheffield's; the platform and the API contract are figshare's. Sheffield is a registered DataCite provider
    (id ooki) and ORDA is a registered DataCite repository client (id bl.shef), so deposits mint DataCite DOIs. NO SPEC IS
    SAVED HERE ON PURPOSE — the figshare contract belongs in figshare's own repository, and attributing it to Sheffield is
    the specific defect this profile was re-run to correct. The relationship is real and is recorded; the engineering is not
    Sheffield's. ORDA's OAI-PMH endpoint is live but returns a Cloudflare 202 challenge to scripted clients.
  humanURL: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/oai
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - DataCite
  - Figshare
  tags_raw:
  - Research Repository
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - DataCite
  - figshare
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/rdm/orda
  - type: VendorProfile
    url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.shef
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:wrro-oai
  name: White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH
  x-operator: tenant
  description: White Rose Research Online is the shared open-access outputs repository of the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield
    and York, running on EPrints and administered by the White Rose consortium rather than by Sheffield alone. Its OAI-PMH
    2.0 interface Identifies as "White Rose Research Online" and offers thirteen metadata formats including oai_dc, rioxx,
    oai_openaire, uketd_dc and oai_dc_orcid — the last of which is where this profile's ORCID conformance evidence comes from.
    Sheffield co-owns the deployment; EPrints wrote the protocol implementation.
  humanURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Open Access
  - ORCID
  - Consortium
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/information.html
  - type: Portal
    url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:wreo-oai
  name: White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH
  x-operator: tenant
  description: White Rose eTheses Online is the shared electronic theses repository of the same three universities, running
    on EPrints. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 interface Identifies as "White Rose eTheses Online" and harvests University of Sheffield thesis
    metadata. Consortium-operated on a vendor platform; recorded as a tenant relationship.
  humanURL: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Theses
  - Open Access
  - Consortium
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-admin-api
  name: University of Sheffield Admin API
  description: The admin API from University of Sheffield — 7 operation(s) for admin.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - Admin
  tags_raw:
  - admin
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-admin-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-api-auth-api
  name: University of Sheffield API Auth API
  description: The api-auth API from University of Sheffield — 3 operation(s) for api-auth.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - API Auth
  tags_raw:
  - api-auth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-api-auth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-auth-api
  name: University of Sheffield Auth API
  description: The auth API from University of Sheffield — 6 operation(s) for auth.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - auth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-auth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-health-api
  name: University of Sheffield Health API
  description: The health API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for health.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - Health
  tags_raw:
  - health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-metrics-api
  name: University of Sheffield Metrics API
  description: The metrics API from University of Sheffield — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - Metrics
  tags_raw:
  - metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-api
  name: University of Sheffield Pvforecast API
  description: PV_Forecast API endpoints.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - pvforecast
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-pvlive-api
  name: University of Sheffield Pvlive API
  description: PV_Live API endpoints.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - pvlive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-pvlive-eu-api
  name: University of Sheffield Pvlive Eu API
  description: PV_Live EU API endpoints.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - pvlive_eu
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-eu-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-user-api
  name: University of Sheffield User API
  description: The User API from University of Sheffield — 7 operation(s) for user.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - User
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-user-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sheffield:university-of-sheffield-users-api
  name: University of Sheffield Users API
  description: The users API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  baseURL: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/docs
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/docs
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/tandc
  - type: Status
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
  - type: Support
    url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-generation-row-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-gsp-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-peakgeneration-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvlive-pes-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-pvforecast-auth-required-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
common:
- type: License
  name: GPL-3.0
  url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar/PV_Live-API/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/redoc
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/api/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/privacy
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.shef.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://find.shef.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research/hpc
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SheffieldUni
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/rcgsheffield
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/RSE-Sheffield
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/SheffieldSolar
- type: Support
  url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/contact
- type: Status
  url: https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/uptime
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-sheffield/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/sheffielduni
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/university-of-sheffield-lifecycle.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/university-of-sheffield-errors.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/university-of-sheffield-scopes.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-sheffield-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-sheffield-plans-pricing.yml


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