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University of Vienna

The University of Vienna (Universitat Wien), founded 1365, is Austria's largest university and a member of LERU. Its programmable footprint is unusual for a university in one specific way: Vienna does not merely deploy a repository platform, it AUTHORS one. PHAIDRA (Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets) is open-source Fedora-based software built and hosted by the university's Zentraler Informatikdienst and University Library, published under Apache 2.0 at github.com/phaidra, and deployed by 25+ institutions across Europe including Padua, Ca' Foscari and IUAV. The OpenAPI in this repository is therefore the institution's own engineering output, not a vendor's contract running under its name. Everything else is bought: u:cris (research information) is Elsevier Pure, u:search is Ex Libris Primo, and u:ai runs on the ACOmarket-operated Academic AI platform shared by 20+ Austrian universities - all recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Vienna's contracts. The university also operates a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the ACOnet federation and eduGAIN, and an authenticated API gateway at api.univie.ac.at. There is no central branded developer portal, no public API documentation site, and no official GitHub organization for the institution itself (github.com/univie is an unrelated personal account).

University of Vienna publishes 14 APIs on the APIs.io network, including PHAIDRA datastream API (University of Vienna), PHAIDRA directory API (University of Vienna), PHAIDRA imageserver API (University of Vienna), and 11 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Public Research University, and Austria.

The University of Vienna catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

University of Vienna’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, and 18 more developer resources.

43.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityPublic Research UniversityAustriaEuropeResearchResearch DataRepositoryOpen-SourceDigital PreservationIdentity FederationOAI-PMHLibraryCourse Catalog

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
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APIs 20

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

PHAIDRA OAI-PMH Endpoint

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for PHAIDRA, the University of Vienna's own institutional repository platform. Harvested by OpenAIRE, Europeana, BASE, OAPEN, EBSCO and...

PHAIDRA datastream API (University of Vienna)

Requests for transforming and validating datastreams

PHAIDRA directory API (University of Vienna)

Requests related to users, user groups and organisation structure

PHAIDRA lists API (University of Vienna)

Requests for manipulating object lists

PHAIDRA misc API (University of Vienna)

The misc API from University of Vienna — 7 operation(s) for misc.

PHAIDRA oai-pmh API (University of Vienna)

Look at the [OAI-PMH protocol](https://www.openarchives.org/pmh) used in this endpoint

PHAIDRA object-advanced API (University of Vienna)

Additional requests for the manipulation of digital objects

PHAIDRA object-basics API (University of Vienna)

Most important requests you'll need to manage digital objects in PHAIDRA

PHAIDRA relationships API (University of Vienna)

Requests for adding and removing object relationships

PHAIDRA search API (University of Vienna)

The search API from University of Vienna — 1 operation(s) for search.

PHAIDRA stats API (University of Vienna)

The stats API from University of Vienna — 4 operation(s) for stats.

PHAIDRA templates API (University of Vienna)

Requests for managing metadata templates

PHAIDRA vocabularies API (University of Vienna)

Requests for controlled vocabularies

u:cris Research Information System (Elsevier Pure)

u:cris is the University of Vienna's research information system. It runs Elsevier Pure and says so in its own OAI-PMH Identify response: 'This service is based on Pure.' The Pu...

u:ai API (Academic AI)

u:ai is the University of Vienna's AI assistant for staff and students, offered with API access for scripted and research use. The API base is https://univie-api.academic-ai.at ...

api.univie.ac.at (authenticated gateway)

An API gateway on the university's apex domain. Probed 2026-08-30 on /, /v1, /api, /docs, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /health and /.well-known/openapi: every path returns an i...

University of Vienna Shibboleth Identity Provider

The university's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://weblogin.univie.ac.at/shibboleth, registered in the ACOnet Austrian research and education federation and propagate...

u:search Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)

u:search is the Vienna University Library's discovery layer. Probed 2026-08-30: https://usearch.univie.ac.at/ redirects to /primo-explore/search?vid=UWI - an Ex Libris Primo ins...

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Open Collections 15

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

PHAIDRA datastream API

OPEN COLLECTION

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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 Vienna Context

28 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

University of Vienna API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

University of Vienna API Rules

7 rules · 2 errors 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

PHAIDRA Solr Index Document

29 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PHAIDRA Object Info

30 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

University Of Vienna Index Structure

29 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

University Of Vienna Object Info Structure

30 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

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

University Of Vienna Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

University Of Vienna Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

University Of Vienna Agentic Access

145 operations · 76 acting

145 operations · 76 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: university-of-vienna
name: University of Vienna
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Vienna (Universitat Wien), founded 1365, is Austria''s largest university and a member of
  LERU. Its programmable footprint is unusual for a university in one specific way: Vienna does not merely deploy a repository
  platform, it AUTHORS one. PHAIDRA (Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets) is open-source
  Fedora-based software built and hosted by the university''s Zentraler Informatikdienst and University Library, published
  under Apache 2.0 at github.com/phaidra, and deployed by 25+ institutions across Europe including Padua, Ca'' Foscari and
  IUAV. The OpenAPI in this repository is therefore the institution''s own engineering output, not a vendor''s contract running
  under its name. Everything else is bought: u:cris (research information) is Elsevier Pure, u:search is Ex Libris Primo,
  and u:ai runs on the ACOmarket-operated Academic AI platform shared by 20+ Austrian universities - all recorded here as
  tenant relationships, not as Vienna''s contracts. The university also operates a Shibboleth identity provider registered
  in the ACOnet federation and eduGAIN, and an authenticated API gateway at api.univie.ac.at. There is no central branded
  developer portal, no public API documentation site, and no official GitHub organization for the institution itself (github.com/univie
  is an unrelated personal account).'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-vienna.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Public Research University
- Austria
- Europe
- Research
- Research Data
- Repository
- Open-Source
- Digital Preservation
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- Course Catalog
tags_raw:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Public Research University
- Austria
- Europe
- Research
- Research Data
- Repository
- Open Source
- Digital Preservation
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- Course Catalog
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-vienna:phaidra-oai-pmh
  name: PHAIDRA OAI-PMH Endpoint
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for PHAIDRA, the University of Vienna''s own institutional repository
    platform. Harvested by OpenAIRE, Europeana, BASE, OAPEN, EBSCO and Primo; supports oai_dc (Dublin Core) and oai_openaire.
    Re-based 2026-08-30: the previously recorded host services.phaidra.univie.ac.at now returns HTTP 200 with a zero-length
    body on EVERY path including nonsense ones (Caddy catch-all vhost, CNAME to phaidra.univie.ac.at) - a soft-200, not a
    live API. re3data r3d100010472 registers the current base as https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/oai/. That host is live
    but fronted by an Anubis proof-of-work bot challenge, which grades LIVE, not dead.'
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/oai/
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Repository
  - Dublin Core
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: Institution's own domain (univie.ac.at), institution-authored platform (github.com/phaidra).
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-datastream-api
  name: PHAIDRA datastream API (University of Vienna)
  description: Requests for transforming and validating datastreams
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Datastream
  tags_raw:
  - datastream
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-datastream-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-directory-api
  name: PHAIDRA directory API (University of Vienna)
  description: Requests related to users, user groups and organisation structure
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Directory
  tags_raw:
  - directory
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-directory-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-imageserver-api
  name: PHAIDRA imageserver API (University of Vienna)
  description: Requests to the imageserver
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - imageserver
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-imageserver-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-lists-api
  name: PHAIDRA lists API (University of Vienna)
  description: Requests for manipulating object lists
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - List
  tags_raw:
  - lists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-lists-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-misc-api
  name: PHAIDRA misc API (University of Vienna)
  description: The misc API from University of Vienna — 7 operation(s) for misc.
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - misc
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-misc-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-oai-pmh-api
  name: PHAIDRA oai-pmh API (University of Vienna)
  description: Look at the [OAI-PMH protocol](https://www.openarchives.org/pmh) used in this endpoint
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  tags_raw:
  - oai-pmh
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-object-advanced-api
  name: PHAIDRA object-advanced API (University of Vienna)
  description: Additional requests for the manipulation of digital objects
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - object-advanced
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-object-advanced-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-object-basics-api
  name: PHAIDRA object-basics API (University of Vienna)
  description: Most important requests you'll need to manage digital objects in PHAIDRA
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - object-basics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-object-basics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-relationships-api
  name: PHAIDRA relationships API (University of Vienna)
  description: Requests for adding and removing object relationships
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Relationships
  tags_raw:
  - relationships
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-relationships-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-search-api
  name: PHAIDRA search API (University of Vienna)
  description: The search API from University of Vienna — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Search
  tags_raw:
  - search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-session-api
  name: PHAIDRA session API (University of Vienna)
  description: Session management
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Session
  tags_raw:
  - session
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-session-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-stats-api
  name: PHAIDRA stats API (University of Vienna)
  description: The stats API from University of Vienna — 4 operation(s) for stats.
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Stats
  tags_raw:
  - stats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-stats-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-templates-api
  name: PHAIDRA templates API (University of Vienna)
  description: Requests for managing metadata templates
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Templates
  tags_raw:
  - templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:university-of-vienna-vocabularies-api
  name: PHAIDRA vocabularies API (University of Vienna)
  description: Requests for controlled vocabularies
  humanURL: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api
  tags:
  - Vocabularies
  tags_raw:
  - vocabularies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-vienna-vocabularies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-object-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-vienna-index-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-object-info-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-vienna-index-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-object-info-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-vienna-search-select-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-ruleset
    url: rules/university-of-vienna-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-vienna-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-vienna-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api/wiki/Documentation
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-basis: 'PHAIDRA is authored and hosted BY the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra: ''originally developed
    by the University of Vienna''; ZID + University Library operate it; Apache 2.0). The cohort audit flags this title as
    a shared contract because Padua ships it too - but Padua licensed the platform FROM Vienna in 2010. The shared-contract
    heuristic is host-independent and cannot tell a product''s AUTHOR from its CONSUMER; here the institution is the author,
    so the verdict inverts to institution. The spec''s own first server is ''University of Vienna PHAIDRA''.'
- aid: university-of-vienna:ucris-pure
  name: u:cris Research Information System (Elsevier Pure)
  description: 'u:cris is the University of Vienna''s research information system. It runs Elsevier Pure and says so in its
    own OAI-PMH Identify response: ''This service is based on Pure.'' The Pure Web Service is live at /ws/api (an api-docs
    page titled ''Pure API'' returns 200 at /ws/api/524/api-docs) and the OAI-PMH endpoint at /ws/oai returns a valid Identify
    - repositoryName ''u:cris - University of Vienna'', adminEmail ucris@univie.ac.at, earliest datestamp 2013-09-07, OpenAIRE
    CERIF 1.2 compatible, metadata formats oai_cerif_openaire/mods/nl_didl/oai_dc/qdc/xmetadiss. Recorded as a TENANT relationship:
    the data and the DOIs are Vienna''s, the contract is Elsevier''s. Pure''s generic specification is deliberately NOT saved
    under this institution.'
  humanURL: https://ucris.univie.ac.at/
  baseURL: https://ucris.univie.ac.at/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - CRIS
  - OAI-PMH
  - Elsevier Pure
  - Tenant
  - CERIF
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-basis: Institution-specific host on the institution's own domain running a vendor platform. Product identity
    confirmed from the endpoint's own self-description, not from the hostname.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ucris.univie.ac.at/ws/api/524/api-docs
  - type: x-oai-pmh
    url: https://ucris.univie.ac.

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