# University of Southampton

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-southampton/  
**Website:** https://www.southampton.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 20.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Open Data Service SPARQL Endpoint** — 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, ...
- **Open Data Linked Data (RDF) Service** — 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), T...
- **ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface** — OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for ePrints Soton, the University's institutional research repository, built on the EPrints platform (originally developed at Southampton)....

## Security (1)

- **University Of Southampton Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Southampton Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Open Data, Linked Data, SPARQL, OAI-PMH, Research, United Kingdom

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-southampton/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.