University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a public research university in Southampton, United Kingdom, a founding member of the Russell Group and one of the few institutions in this cohort whose programmable footprint is genuinely its own engineering rather than a supplier's contract running under its name. Four institution-operated surfaces were found and verified by live probe on 2026-08-30. The University of Southampton Open Data Service at data.southampton.ac.uk, with persistent identifiers under id.southampton.ac.uk, publishes twenty-two datasets of campus, building, organisational, catalogue, transport and facilities data as five-star linked data under the Open Government Licence, reachable by content negotiation in Turtle, RDF/XML and N-Triples and by bulk dump per dataset. It is institution-built on tooling Southampton wrote, and it covers the campus-life and timetable classes that universities operate and almost never publish. The University runs its own Shibboleth 3.x SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, entityID https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/shibboleth, scope soton.ac.uk, registered in the Jisc UK Access Management Federation and reachable through eduGAIN. ePrints Soton, the institutional research repository, exposes a live open OAI-PMH 2.0 interface offering eight metadata formats including RIOXX v2.0, plus a read REST interface over the EPrints data model; the platform is EPrints 3.3.15, software developed at Southampton itself, so uniquely in this cohort neither the host nor the repository software belongs to a vendor. The University is a DataCite member in its own right with 6,735 DOIs minted under its own prefix 10.5258, and a Crossref member under prefix 10.22493. Two further surfaces are real but tenant-operated and are recorded as relationships without holding the supplier's specification: the Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy at pure.soton.ac.uk, which is now the system of record for research deposit and whose public web services are switched off, and the Figshare research data tenancy at southampton.figshare.com. One prominent claim in the previous profile of this institution is now false and has been withdrawn. The public SPARQL endpoint at sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk is decommissioned: it answers every request with HTTP 200 and the body "Sorry, We no longer off a public SPARQL interface to Southampton Open Data", and the Open Data catalogue's own VoID metadata still advertises it. There is no central developer portal, no api.southampton.ac.uk and no public course, registrar or research-computing API. Access across the estate is open and standards-based rather than key-gated, and no surface publishes a version, changelog, status page or deprecation signal.
University of Southampton publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Open Data Service (Linked Data), ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface, and ePrints Soton REST Interface. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Russell Group, and United Kingdom.
The University of Southampton catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
University of Southampton’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 25 more developer resources.
3 APIs
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
aid: university-of-southampton
name: University of Southampton
description: 'The University of Southampton is a public research university in Southampton, United Kingdom, a founding member
of the Russell Group and one of the few institutions in this cohort whose programmable footprint is genuinely its own engineering
rather than a supplier''s contract running under its name.
Four institution-operated surfaces were found and verified by live probe on 2026-08-30. The University of Southampton Open
Data Service at data.southampton.ac.uk, with persistent identifiers under id.southampton.ac.uk, publishes twenty-two datasets
of campus, building, organisational, catalogue, transport and facilities data as five-star linked data under the Open Government
Licence, reachable by content negotiation in Turtle, RDF/XML and N-Triples and by bulk dump per dataset. It is institution-built
on tooling Southampton wrote, and it covers the campus-life and timetable classes that universities operate and almost never
publish. The University runs its own Shibboleth 3.x SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, entityID https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/shibboleth,
scope soton.ac.uk, registered in the Jisc UK Access Management Federation and reachable through eduGAIN. ePrints Soton,
the institutional research repository, exposes a live open OAI-PMH 2.0 interface offering eight metadata formats including
RIOXX v2.0, plus a read REST interface over the EPrints data model; the platform is EPrints 3.3.15, software developed at
Southampton itself, so uniquely in this cohort neither the host nor the repository software belongs to a vendor. The University
is a DataCite member in its own right with 6,735 DOIs minted under its own prefix 10.5258, and a Crossref member under prefix
10.22493.
Two further surfaces are real but tenant-operated and are recorded as relationships without holding the supplier''s specification:
the Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy at pure.soton.ac.uk, which is now the system of record for research deposit and whose public
web services are switched off, and the Figshare research data tenancy at southampton.figshare.com.
One prominent claim in the previous profile of this institution is now false and has been withdrawn. The public SPARQL endpoint
at sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk is decommissioned: it answers every request with HTTP 200 and the body "Sorry, We no longer
off a public SPARQL interface to Southampton Open Data", and the Open Data catalogue''s own VoID metadata still advertises
it. There is no central developer portal, no api.southampton.ac.uk and no public course, registrar or research-computing
API. Access across the estate is open and standards-based rather than key-gated, and no surface publishes a version, changelog,
status page or deprecation signal.'
type: Index
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
assessed: '2026-08-30'
method: pipeline-university + live probe
institution_surfaces: 4
tenant_surfaces: 2
tenant_hosts: 2
contracts_saved: 3
vendor_surfaces_removed: 0
dead_surfaces_removed: 1
detail: 'Four institution-operated surfaces found and verified by live probe on 2026-08-30, and three contracts written
from those probes and saved. Southampton is a genuine outlier in this cohort: its principal surfaces are its own engineering,
not a supplier''s. The Open Data Service (data.southampton.ac.uk / id.southampton.ac.uk, both in the University''s own
JANET address space) publishes twenty-two datasets as five-star linked data under the Open Government Licence, with content
negotiation exercised end to end rather than merely linked. The Shibboleth 3.x SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (entityID https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/shibboleth,
scope soton.ac.uk) was retrieved both from the IdP itself and, signed, from the Jisc UK Access Management Federation MDQ
service; it was entirely absent from the previous profile and is the single largest addition of this run. ePrints Soton
offers a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface with eight metadata formats and a read REST interface, on the institution''s own host
running EPrints 3.3.15 — software developed at Southampton, so uniquely in this cohort the repository platform is not
a vendor''s either.
Two surfaces are real but tenant-operated and are recorded as relationships without holding the supplier''s specification:
the Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy (pure.soton.ac.uk CNAME soton.elsevierpure.com) and the Figshare research data tenancy
(southampton.figshare.com CNAME figshare.com). Southampton''s Pure tenancy is more closed than several peers'': /ws/oai
and /ws/api both return 403.
One previously claimed surface was withdrawn as dead. sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk was recorded as the institution''s
flagship public SPARQL endpoint; it is decommissioned and returns HTTP 200 with the body "Sorry, We no longer off a public
SPARQL interface to Southampton Open Data" for every method and scheme. It is a soft-200, invisible to status-code monitoring,
and the Open Data catalogue''s own VoID metadata still advertises it via void:sparqlEndpoint. One further stale claim
was corrected: the OAI-PMH endpoint was recorded as returning 403, which was a probe artifact of a browser User-Agent
hitting the host''s Anubis bot challenge, not a property of the service.
Six of the twelve education-regime domain standards are evidenced with live probes — oai-pmh, shibboleth, saml, orcid,
datacite (6,735 DOIs under the University''s own prefix 10.5258) and crossref (member 9786, prefix 10.22493). The profile
is thin in the places universities are genuinely thin: no central developer portal, no api.southampton.ac.uk or developer.soton.ac.uk
(neither resolves), no public course or registrar API (timetable.soton.ac.uk is behind Microsoft Entra ID), and no research-computing
surface — iridis.soton.ac.uk returns 200 but serves an unconfigured default WordPress installation and was rejected as
a placeholder. No surface publishes a version, changelog, status page or deprecation signal.'
evidence:
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
status: 200
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/datasets.html
status: 200
note: 22 datasets catalogued.
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/data-catalog.ttl
status: 200
note: DCAT catalogue, 4244 bytes. Still advertises the retired void:sparqlEndpoint.
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/94A.ttl
status: 200
note: text/turtle, 2329 bytes. Content negotiation verified.
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/94A.rdf
status: 200
note: application/rdf+xml, 2354 bytes.
- url: http://id.southampton.ac.uk/building/94A
status: 200
note: Persistent URI redirects to the representation host.
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/university-timetable/latest.ttl
status: 200
note: 166536 bytes. Timetable data as linked data.
- url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset.html
status: 404
note: Negative probe. Genuine 404, not a soft-404.
- url: https://sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk/
status: 200
note: DEAD. Soft-200 retirement notice on GET and POST, http and https. Removed from the profile.
- url: https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
note: IdP-published SAML metadata, application/xml, 16951 bytes.
- url: http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fwebauth.soton.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth
status: 200
note: Signed federation metadata, 19396 bytes. Saved to this repo.
- url: https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/idp/status
status: 403
note: Access-controlled status handler. Expected on a production IdP.
- url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
status: 200
note: Harvester User-Agent. Valid OAI-PMH envelope, 4614 bytes.
- url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
status: 401
note: Same URL, browser User-Agent. Anubis 1.24.0 challenge. Live and blocked, not dead.
- url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=ListMetadataFormats
status: 200
note: Eight metadata formats including rioxx and uketd_dc.
- url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/rest/eprint/498754.xml
status: 200
note: 5106 bytes of EPrints XML with ORCID iDs and an institution-minted DOI.
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=southampton
status: 200
note: DataCite provider HXHF, University of Southampton, GB.
- url: https://api.datacite.org/dois?query=prefix:10.5258
status: 200
note: 6,735 DOIs under the University own prefix.
- url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=southampton
status: 200
note: Crossref member 9786, prefix 10.22493, 25 works.
- url: https://pure.soton.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
status: 403
note: Elsevier-branded 403. Tenancy exposes no public OAI-PMH.
- url: https://southampton.figshare.com/
status: 202
note: AWS WAF bot challenge. Live and blocked, not dead.
- url: https://iridis.soton.ac.uk/
status: 200
note: REJECTED as placeholder. Unconfigured default WordPress install, no content.
- url: https://timetable.soton.ac.uk/
status: 200
note: Redirects to Microsoft Entra ID. Institution-operated but auth-gated; no public contract.
- url: https://hpc.soton.ac.uk/
status: 200
note: Redirects to SharePoint behind Entra ID. Not a public research-computing surface.
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-southampton/
status: 999
note: LinkedIn bot challenge. Live and blocked, not dead.
- url: https://api.southampton.ac.uk/
status: 0
note: Does not resolve. No central API host.
- url: https://developer.southampton.ac.uk/
status: 0
note: Does not resolve. No developer portal.
- url: https://api.soton.ac.uk/
status: 0
note: Does not resolve.
- url: https://opendata.southampton.ac.uk/
status: 0
note: Does not resolve. The open data service is at data.southampton.ac.uk.
- url: https://courses.southampton.ac.uk/
status: 0
note: Does not resolve. No public course catalog API.
audit_script_caveat: 'audit-university-contracts.py reported this repo as {institution:2, unknown:1} with no tenant hosts,
because its verdict is host-name based and the repo held no vendor contracts to catch. Two blind spots showed up here.
First, it cannot see a vanity CNAME: pure.soton.ac.uk looks institutional and points at soton.elsevierpure.com, and the
tenant relationships it missed were found by DNS. Second, and more important for this cohort, a host-based verdict cannot
see that a host is DEAD — sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk was classified institution and is a decommissioned service answering
200. The x-operator values in this file are set from DNS plus each surface''s own self-declaration, and liveness from
a real request against the surface''s own protocol, not from the script.'
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Free
confidence: medium
source:
- plans
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-southampton.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-southampton/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Russell Group
- United Kingdom
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Research
- Course Catalog
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-southampton:open-data-linked-data
name: University of Southampton Open Data Service (Linked Data)
description: 'Institution-built, institution-hosted linked open data covering the physical and organisational University:
buildings and sites, term dates, organisational structure, research facilities, points of service, products and services,
bus information, printers, workstation clusters and opening hours, room bookings, room features and shapes, and the University
timetable — twenty-two datasets in all. Persistent URIs live under http://id.southampton.ac.uk/{class}/{id} and redirect
to representations on data.southampton.ac.uk, where any generated page is available in machine-readable form by swapping
the format extension: .ttl, .rdf, .nt, with .csv, .kml, .ics and RSS where the data suits them. Each dataset also offers
a bulk dump at /dataset/{id}/latest.{ext}. A DCAT catalogue describes the whole service and asserts the Open Government
Licence and five-star open linked data conformance. Verified live on 2026-08-30: building 94A returned 200 text/turtle
(2329 bytes) and 200 application/rdf+xml (2354 bytes), the DCAT catalogue returned 200 (4244 bytes), and negative probes
against real path shapes returned genuine 404s rather than soft-200s. Caveat: the catalogue''s VoID description still
advertises void:sparqlEndpoint at sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk, which is retired.'
humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
tags:
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- RDF
- DCAT
- Campus
- Open Government Licence
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-southampton-open-data-linked-data-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.data.southampton.ac.uk/faq.html
- type: OpenData
url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/datasets.html
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/university-of-southampton-vocabulary.yml
- type: Rules
url: rules/university-of-southampton-rules.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-southampton-errors.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/university-of-southampton-lifecycle.yml
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: data.southampton.ac.uk CNAMEs to sni-vserver-02.soton.ac.uk (152.78.118.88) and id.southampton.ac.uk
to websites-ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.118.28), both in the University's own JANET address space under its own registrable
domain. The DCAT record names dcterms:publisher <http://id.southampton.ac.uk/>, typed aiiso:Institution, labelled 'University
of Southampton'. The service FAQ states it is built on Sesame, Grinder, rapper, Graphite and sparqllib, with Grinder written
for this project at Southampton. No vendor platform is involved.
x-probe:
probed: '2026-08-30'
baseURL_status: 200
note: Content negotiation exercised end to end, not merely linked. .ttl returned text/turtle and .rdf returned application/rdf+xml
for a real resource.
- aid: university-of-southampton:shibboleth-saml-idp
name: Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)
description: 'The University''s own Shibboleth 3.x Identity Provider, entityID https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/shibboleth, asserting
shibmd:Scope soton.ac.uk. Its entity descriptor is published both by the IdP itself and, signed, through the Jisc UK Access
Management Federation MDQ service and onward into eduGAIN — retrieved live on 2026-08-30 (200, application/xml, 16951
bytes direct; 200, application/samlmetadata+xml, 19396 bytes signed) and saved to this repo. Carries IDPSSODescriptor,
AttributeAuthorityDescriptor and SPSSODescriptor roles, advertising SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and the native urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0
profile over HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST and HTTP-POST-SimpleSign SSO and SLO bindings, with SOAP AttributeQuery and ArtifactResolution
on port 8443. Institution-operated by definition and the most under-catalogued programmable asset a university runs. Note
this is not a public developer API: an application cannot obtain an assertion without first being registered as a service
provider in the federation, so there is no self-service path.'
humanURL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/
baseURL: http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fwebauth.soton.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth
tags:
- Identity
- SSO
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Federation
- eduGAIN
properties:
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-southampton-authentication.yml
- type: IdentityFederation
url: http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fwebauth.soton.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/university-of-southampton-scopes.yml
x-entity-id: https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/shibboleth
x-sso-endpoint: https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Metadata self-declares mdui:DisplayName and OrganizationName 'University of Southampton', mdui:Description
'Shibboleth 3.x IdP for University of Southampton', and shibmd:Scope 'soton.ac.uk'. webauth.soton.ac.uk resolves to 152.78.118.139
in the University's own address space. The signed federation copy corroborates all of it.
x-probe:
probed: '2026-08-30'
baseURL_status: 200
idp_self_published_status: 200
status_handler_status: 403
note: The /idp/status handler is access-controlled (403), which is correct for a production IdP and is not an outage.
- aid: university-of-southampton:eprints-oai-pmh
name: ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface
description: 'Live, open OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for ePrints Soton, the University''s institutional research repository.
Verified 2026-08-30: Identify returned repositoryName ''ePrints Soton'', repositoryIdentifier eprints.soton.ac.uk, adminEmail
eprints@soton.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp 2021-12-11T15:30:50Z, deletedRecord ''persistent'' and granularity to the second;
ListMetadataFormats offered eight prefixes including rioxx (RIOXX v2.0, the UK research-output profile), uketd_dc, mets,
didl and rdf; ListSets and GetRecord both returned real data. Records carry ORCID iDs and institution-minted DataCite
DOIs under the University''s own 10.5258 prefix. The repository''s metadataPolicy grants free re-use of metadata in any
medium for not-for-profit purposes with attribution.
Correction to the previous profile: this endpoint was recorded as returning HTTP 403 and presumed to be filtering automated
requests. That was a probe artifact. The host runs Anubis 1.24.0, which challenges browser-like User-Agent strings with
401 and denies crawler agents such as Googlebot with 403, but serves plain and harvester User-Agents normally with 200.
The endpoint is live and fully functional.'
humanURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Repository
- Research
- Metadata
- EPrints
- RIOXX
- Open Access
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-southampton-eprints-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-southampton-errors.yml
- type: Rules
url: rules/university-of-southampton-rules.yml
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: eprints.soton.ac.uk resolves to 152.78.118.18 in the University's own JANET allocation. The Identify
response self-declares the institution as operator and states the platform is 'eprints server software (EPrints 3.3.15)
developed at the University of Southampton'. Unlike every Figshare, Pure, Dataverse and DSpace deployment in this cohort,
the repository software here is the institution's own product, so neither host nor platform is a vendor's.
x-probe:
probed: '2026-08-30'
baseURL_status: 200
browser_user_agent_status: 401
crawler_user_agent_status: 403
note: Status depends on User-Agent, not on credentials. Grade live. A 401 here means 'you look like a browser'.
- aid: university-of-southampton:eprints-rest
name: ePrints Soton REST Interface
description: 'Read-only REST interface over the ePrints Soton data model, exposing the repository''s eprint, user and subject
datasets. Unauthenticated. Individual records dereference by identifier with a format extension and return native EPrints
XML (namespace http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0) including nested documents and files with their own stable identifiers.
Verified 2026-08-30: the dataset index returned 200 (524 bytes) and eprint 498754 returned 200 text/xml (5106 bytes) carrying
populated ORCID iDs and the DOI 10.5258/SOTON/WSI-WP013. Treat it as a repository export rather than a designed API —
there is no pagination, versioning, rate-limit header or published contract, and the unfiltered listing at /rest/eprint/
streamed past 11 MB without completing at a 25-second timeout. Use OAI-PMH for bulk work. Same Anubis User-Agent gate
as the OAI-PMH surface.'
humanURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/rest
tags:
- Repository
- Research
- REST
- EPrints
- Metadata
- Open Access
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/university-of-southampton-eprints-rest-openapi.yml
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
- type: Rules
url: rules/university-of-southampton-rules.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-southampton-errors.yml
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: 'Same host and same evidence as the OAI-PMH surface: 152.78.118.18 in the University''s own address
space, running EPrints 3.3.15, software developed at Southampton.'
x-probe:
probed: '2026-08-30'
baseURL_status: 200
record_status: 200
unfiltered_listing: 11485184 bytes streamed, incomplete at 25s timeout
- aid: university-of-southampton:pure-cris-tenancy
name: Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy
description: 'The University''s tenancy of Elsevier Pure, its Current Research Information System, at pure.soton.ac.uk.
Pure is now the system of record: researchers deposit into Pure and outputs flow onward to ePrints Soton for public display,
and the University states ePrints is no longer available for login or deposit. All of that is Southampton''s data and
Southampton''s administration on Elsevier''s platform under Elsevier''s contract, so it is recorded here as a relationship
and the supplier''s specification is not held under this slug.
Unlike several peers in this cohort, this tenancy exposes no public web services: both /ws/oai and /ws/api returned HTTP
403 from an Elsevier-branded error page on 2026-08-30, and the portal itself redirects to Microsoft Entra ID SAML sign-in
for the University''s tenant. The migration of deposit from ePrints to Pure has therefore reduced the institution''s public
programmable surface rather than increased it.'
humanURL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/researcher-support/pure.page
baseURL: https://pure.soton.ac.uk/
tags:
- Research
- CRIS
- Pure
- Repository
- Metadata
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/researcher-support/pure.page
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/university-of-southampton-lifecycle.yml
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Elsevier (Pure)
x-operator-evidence: 'DNS: pure.soton.ac.uk CNAME soton.elsevierpure.com CNAME eu.prod.elsevierpure.com. The 403 error page
is Elsevier-branded, styled with the ''Elsevier Sans'' typeface. The institution operates the tenancy; Elsevier operates
the platform and authors the contract.'
x-probe:
probed: '2026-08-30'
baseURL_status: 200
ws_oai_status: 403
ws_api_status: 403
note: Portal 200 is a redirect to login.microsoftonline.com SAML sign-in. No public API surface.
- aid: university-of-southampton:figshare-tenancy
name: Figshare research data repository tenancy
description: 'The University''s tenancy of Figshare for research data, at southampton.figshare.com. Live and reachable but
fronted by an AWS WAF bot challenge — HTTP 202 with header x-amzn-waf-action:challenge and a zero-length body on 2026-08-30,
which is live and blocked, not dead. The data and the DOIs are Southampton''s; the API is Figshare''s generic v2 contract,
shared by every customer, and it is deliberately not held under this slug. This is the exact misattribution the university
pipeline exists to prevent: one Figshare contract was previously attributed to twenty-five institutions across this cohort.'
humanURL: https://southampton.figshare.com/
baseURL: https://southampton.figshare.com/
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Figshare
- Open Data
- Tenant
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://southampton.figshare.com/
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Figshare
x-operator-evidence: 'DNS: southampton.figshare.com CNAME figshare.com (34.253.120.123, 3.248.86.171, 34.252.107.212). An
institution-specific subdomain on a vendor platform — the textbook tenant shape.'
x-probe:
probed: '2026-08-30'
baseURL_status: 202
note: AWS WAF bot challenge. Live and blocked, not dead.
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/
- type: OpenData
url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.data.southampton.ac.uk/faq.html
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fwebauth.soton.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/about/governance/regulations-policies/policies/using-gen-ai-during-your-studies
- type: AITooling
url: https://ai.southampton.ac.uk/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/southampton
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/southampton
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-southampton/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/about/governance/regulations-policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/about/governance/information-publications/publication-scheme
- type: Support
url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/
- type: Blog
url: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/data/
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/data/feed/
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/university-of-southampton-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/university-of-southampton-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/university-of-southampton-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/university-of-southampton-finops.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/university-of-southampton-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/university-of-southampton-vocabulary.yml
- type: Rules
url: rules/university-of-southampton-rules.yml
- type: Errors
url: errors/university-of-southampton-errors.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/university-of-southampton-lifecycle.yml
- type: Scopes
url: scopes/university-of-southampton-scopes.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
- type: x-blogs
url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: x-json-ld
url: json-ld/university-of-southampton-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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