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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 One prominent claim in the previous profile of this institution is now false and has been withdrawn.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 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Catalogue API, Datasets API, Eprints API, and 5 more. 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.

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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6 APIs
UniversityHigher EducationEducationRussell GroupUnited KingdomOpen DataLinked DataResearch RepositoryIdentity FederationOAI-PMHResearchCourse Catalog

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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 does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 8

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

Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)

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 bo...

Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy

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 outp...

Figshare research data repository tenancy

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...

University of Southampton Catalogue API

DCAT catalogue of the datasets the service publishes.

University of Southampton Datasets API

Enumeration of the repository's exposed datasets.

University of Southampton Eprints API

Individual repository records.

University of Southampton OAI PMH API

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, version 2.0.

University of Southampton Resources API

Dereferenceable resource URIs for campus concepts.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

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

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

University Of Southampton Context

6 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Security Posture 2

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

University Of Southampton Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

University Of Southampton Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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: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: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
  - CRI
  - Pure
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - 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.
- aid: university-of-southampton:university-of-southampton-catalogue-api
  name: University of Southampton Catalogue API
  description: DCAT catalogue of the datasets the service publishes.
  humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Catalogue
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-southampton-catalogue-api-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
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-southampton:university-of-southampton-datasets-api
  name: University of Southampton Datasets API
  description: Enumeration of the repository's exposed datasets.
  humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-southampton-datasets-api-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
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-southampton:university-of-southampton-eprints-api
  name: University of Southampton Eprints API
  description: Individual repository records.
  humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - EPrints
  tags_raw:
  - Eprints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-southampton-eprints-api-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
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-southampton:university-of-southampton-oai-pmh-api
  name: University of Southampton OAI PMH API
  description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, version 2.0.
  humanURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-southampton-oai-pmh-api-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
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-southampton:university-of-southampton-resources-api
  name: University of Southampton Resources API
  description: Dereferenceable resource URIs for campus concepts.
  humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Resources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-southampton-resources-api-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
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-southampton-conformance.yml
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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