University of Texas at Austin

aid: university-of-texas-at-austin
name: University of Texas at Austin
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Texas at Austin is a flagship public research university in Austin, Texas, United States,
  and the largest institution in the University of Texas System. It operates no central developer portal, publishes no institution-wide
  API catalog, and its enterprise integration APIs (Identity and Access Management, student and financial systems) are gated
  behind UT EID authentication and an internal ServiceNow request process, so they are not publicly readable. What UT Austin
  does genuinely operate and expose publicly is narrower and more specific than a portal: the Tapis v3 research-computing
  platform, designed, built and run by the Texas Advanced Computing Center — an organized research unit of UT Austin — which
  serves five OpenAPI-described services (Systems, Files, Apps, Jobs, Notifications) on its production TACC tenant; an InCommon-registered
  Shibboleth identity provider publishing both SAML 2.0 metadata and an OpenID Connect discovery document; and Texas ScholarWorks,
  the UT Libraries DSpace repository, with a public REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint on the university''s own
  host. Its research-data archive is a tenancy rather than an operation: UT Austin publishes into a Dataverse collection on
  the Texas Digital Library''s shared instance, and the library discovery layer is Ex Libris Primo. Both are recorded here
  as relationships, not as UT Austin engineering.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  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-texas-at-austin.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-texas-at-austin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Public Research University
- United States
- Texas
- Research Computing
- Identity Federation
- Institutional Repository
- Research Data
- Library
- Open Data
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-texas-at-austin:tapis
  name: Tapis v3 Research Computing Platform (TACC production tenant)
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Judged by what the contracts say about themselves, not by where they were fetched. All five OpenAPI
    documents carry info.contact.email cicsupport@tacc.utexas.edu and info.termsOfService https://tapis-project.org. The live
    tenants registry at https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/tenants lists the `tacc` tenant with owner CICSupport@tacc.utexas.edu and
    site_id `tacc`. TACC is an organized research unit of The University of Texas at Austin, so this is UT Austin engineering,
    not a vendor contract running under its name. Tapis is NSF-funded and co-developed with the University of Hawaii, which
    runs a separate site (uhprod.uhtapis.org) — a UH profile would record its own host, not this one.
  description: 'Tapis is the API platform TACC builds and operates for programmatic access to research computing: registering
    storage and compute systems, moving files, defining applications, submitting and tracking HPC jobs, and subscribing to
    job events. The production TACC tenant serves five OpenAPI 3.0.3-described services, all verified healthy (HTTP 200 on
    /healthcheck) on 2026-08-30. Reads and writes require a tenant-issued JWT; the health-check endpoints are anonymous. This
    is the one surface in this profile where the institution wrote the contract.'
  humanURL: https://tapis-project.org/
  baseURL: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3
  tags:
  - Research Computing
  - HPC
  - Job Execution
  - File Transfer
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-texas-at-austin-tapis-systems-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-texas-at-austin-tapis-files-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-texas-at-austin-tapis-apps-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-texas-at-austin-tapis-jobs-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-texas-at-austin-tapis-notifications-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tapis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/technical/index.html
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/tapis-project
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-texas-at-austin-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-texas-at-austin-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-texas-at-austin-lifecycle.yml
- aid: university-of-texas-at-austin:enterprise-idp
  name: UT Austin Enterprise Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 + OpenID Connect)
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host enterprise.login.utexas.edu is under the institution's own registrable domain, and the SAML metadata
    declares OrganizationName "The University of Texas at Austin".
  description: UT Austin's Shibboleth identity provider, and the most under-catalogued class of institutional API surface.
    It publishes SAML 2.0 metadata at /idp/shibboleth (entityID https://enterprise.login.utexas.edu/idp/shibboleth) with HTTP-POST,
    POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP bindings, and the same entity resolves signed from the InCommon metadata query
    service, confirming InCommon/eduGAIN participation. It also serves a full OpenID Connect discovery document at /.well-known/openid-configuration
    advertising authorization, token, userinfo, JWKS, introspection, revocation, end-session and dynamic client registration
    endpoints, and ten scopes — six of them institution-defined (utexas_profile, utexas_restrict, utexas_student_extended,
    memberof, groups, iidasmail). Both documents are anonymously readable and machine-readable; obtaining client credentials
    is an institutional process, not self-service. Verified live (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.
  humanURL: https://identity.utexas.edu/
  baseURL: https://enterprise.login.utexas.edu
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - OpenID Connect
  - InCommon
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-texas-at-austin-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/university-of-texas-at-austin-scopes.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-texas-at-austin-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://identity.utexas.edu/
  - type: Metadata
    url: https://enterprise.login.utexas.edu/idp/shibboleth
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://enterprise.login.utexas.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
- aid: university-of-texas-at-austin:scholarworks-rest
  name: Texas ScholarWorks DSpace REST API
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host repositories.lib.utexas.edu is under the institution's own registrable domain; the API root reports
    dspaceName "DSpace at UT Austin".
  description: Public DSpace REST API for Texas ScholarWorks, the UT Libraries institutional repository of theses, dissertations,
    faculty research and open-access scholarship. The root document reports dspaceName "DSpace at UT Austin" and dspaceVersion
    "DSpace 9.4-SNAPSHOT" (this repo previously recorded DSpace 8), and exposes HAL+JSON resources for communities, collections,
    items, bundles and bitstreams. Anonymous read returns HTTP 200; authenticated access is advertised over Shibboleth SSO
    and DSpace password login in the WWW-Authenticate header. The software is DSpace's, but the deployment, the host and the
    content are UT Austin's. Verified live (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.
  humanURL: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/
  baseURL: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - Research
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-texas-at-austin-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-texas-at-austin-errors.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-texas-at-austin-examples.yml
- aid: university-of-texas-at-austin:scholarworks-oai
  name: Texas ScholarWorks OAI-PMH Endpoint
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Host repositories.lib.utexas.edu is under the institution's own registrable domain; the Identify response
    returns repositoryName "DSpace at UT Austin".
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for Texas ScholarWorks. An Identify request returns repositoryName
    "DSpace at UT Austin", baseURL https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/oai/request, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ,
    deletedRecord "transient" and earliest datestamp 2008-08-13. ListMetadataFormats offers thirteen prefixes including oai_dc,
    etdms, marc, mets, mods, qdc, rioxx and xoai. This is a conformance hit against the Kin Score education regime's oai-pmh
    standard, on the institution's own host. Verified live (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.
  humanURL: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/metadata-basics/harvesting
  baseURL: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/metadata-basics/harvesting
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-texas-at-austin-conformance.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-texas-at-austin-examples.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-texas-at-austin-lifecycle.yml
- aid: university-of-texas-at-austin:texas-data-repository
  name: Texas Data Repository (Dataverse) — UT Austin collection
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: 'Host dataverse.tdl.org belongs to the Texas Digital Library consortium, not to utexas.edu. UT Austin''s
    relationship to it is a named collection: https://dataverse.tdl.org/api/dataverses/utexas returns HTTP 200 with name "University
    of Texas at Austin Dataverse Collection" and affiliation "The University of Texas at Austin", contact m.shensky@austin.utexas.edu.
    The data and the DOIs are UT Austin''s; the contract and the platform are the Texas Digital Library''s. The generic Dataverse
    specification is NOT saved under this institution.'
  description: 'UT Austin publishes and archives research datasets in the Texas Data Repository, a Dataverse instance operated
    by the Texas Digital Library and shared across Texas institutions. The instance reported version 6.10.1 (HTTP 200) on
    2026-08-30 and the UT Austin collection is confirmed at /api/dataverses/utexas. Datasets are minted DataCite DOIs under
    the repository''s 10.18738 prefix. Recorded as a tenant relationship: it is a real and significant part of UT Austin''s
    programmable footprint, and it is not UT Austin''s engineering.'
  humanURL: https://dataverse.tdl.org/dataverse/utexas
  baseURL: https://dataverse.tdl.org/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Dataverse
  - Research
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://dataverse.tdl.org/
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-texas-at-austin-examples.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.utexas.edu/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://tacc.utexas.edu/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://identity.utexas.edu/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://search.lib.utexas.edu/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://catalog.utexas.edu/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://dataverse.tdl.org/dataverse/utexas
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://ai.utexas.edu/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tacc.utexas.edu/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://tapis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/technical/index.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/TACC
- type: OpenSourceProgramOffice
  url: https://opensource.utexas.edu/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.utexas.edu/site-policies
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://security.utexas.edu/policies
- type: Support
  url: https://tacc.utexas.edu/about/help/
- type: Blog
  url: https://news.utexas.edu/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-texas-at-austin/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-texas-at-austin-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-texas-at-austin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-texas-at-austin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-texas-at-austin-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'UT Austin operates no central developer portal and no institution-wide API catalog, and its enterprise integration
    APIs sit behind UT EID plus an internal ServiceNow request process, so they are not publicly readable. What it does operate
    publicly was found and verified rather than assumed: five OpenAPI-described Tapis v3 services on the TACC production tenant,
    all healthy; an InCommon-registered Shibboleth IdP publishing SAML 2.0 metadata and an OIDC discovery document; and the
    Texas ScholarWorks DSpace REST and OAI-PMH endpoints on the university''s own host. Two surfaces are recorded as relationships
    rather than engineering: the Texas Data Repository Dataverse collection (Texas Digital Library) and the Primo library
    discovery layer (Ex Libris) — no vendor contract is saved under this institution. The central IT site (it.utexas.edu,
    now 301 to tech.utexas.edu) returns 403 to every non-browser client, so any API-registry documentation it may carry could
    not be read; nothing was inferred from it. github.com/utexas was found dead (HTTP 404 — five empty 2016 placeholder repos)
    and that pointer was removed; the institution''s real GitHub presence is github.com/TACC.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/systems/healthcheck
    status: 200
  - url: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/files/healthcheck
    status: 200
  - url: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/apps/healthcheck
    status: 200
  - url: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/jobs/healthcheck
    status: 200
  - url: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/notifications/healthcheck
    status: 200
  - url: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/tenants
    status: 200
  - url: https://tacc.tapis.io/v3/systems
    status: 401
  - url: https://enterprise.login.utexas.edu/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://enterprise.login.utexas.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fenterprise.login.utexas.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://dataverse.tdl.org/api/dataverses/utexas
    status: 200
  - url: https://dataverse.tdl.org/api/info/version
    status: 200
  - url: https://tech.utexas.edu/services/api-registry
    status: 403
  - url: https://github.com/utexas
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.utexas.edu/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.utexas.edu/
    status: 0
  - url: https://developer.utexas.edu/
    status: 0
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com