University of Southampton

aid: university-of-southampton
name: University of Southampton
description: 'The University of Southampton is a public research university in Southampton, United Kingdom, ranked #70 in
  the QS World University Rankings 2025. It is a founding member of the Russell Group and a recognized pioneer of open and
  linked data in higher education. Its developer/API footprint is centered on the University of Southampton Open Data Service
  (data.southampton.ac.uk), which publishes campus, building, organizational, catalogue, and facilities data as linked data
  with a public SPARQL endpoint and multiple machine-readable formats (RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, CSV, KML, ICS). The University
  is also the home of the EPrints open-source repository platform; its institutional research repository (ePrints Soton) exposes
  an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface. There is no single unified commercial API developer portal; access is open and
  standards-based rather than key-gated.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- SPARQL
- OAI-PMH
- Research
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-southampton:open-data-sparql
  name: Open Data Service SPARQL Endpoint
  description: Public SPARQL query endpoint for the University of Southampton Open Data Service, backed by a triple store
    (Sesame) with an arc2 front end. Allows querying of campus, building, organizational, catalogue, and facilities linked
    data.
  humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - SPARQL
  - RDF
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.data.southampton.ac.uk/faq.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/southampton
- aid: university-of-southampton:open-data-linked-data
  name: Open Data Linked Data (RDF) Service
  description: Linked open data published at data.southampton.ac.uk. Resource pages offer machine-readable representations
    via content negotiation and "get the data" links in RDF/XML (.rdf), Turtle (.ttl), N-Triples (.nt), and where relevant
    CSV, KML, ICS, and RSS.
  humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - RDF
  - Campus
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.data.southampton.ac.uk/faq.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/southampton
- aid: university-of-southampton:eprints-oai-pmh
  name: ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface
  description: 'OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for ePrints Soton, the University''s institutional research repository,
    built on the EPrints platform (originally developed at Southampton). The repository is read-only for search and harvesting;
    new deposits now go through Pure. Note: a direct probe of the OAI-PMH endpoint returned HTTP 403 (likely automated-request
    filtering); the interface is documented and intended for repository harvesters.'
  humanURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - EPrints
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/southampton
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-southampton/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/southampton
- 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: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/data/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/data/feed/
- 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