# University of Vienna

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-vienna/  
**Website:** https://www.univie.ac.at/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 16

The University of Vienna (Universität Wien), founded in 1365, is Austria's largest university and ranks #78 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, programmatically accessible footprint centers on research and scholarly infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: PHAIDRA, the university's institutional repository, exposes a documented REST(ish) API and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint, and the institution's structured data is also published through the pan-European HEI API. Course, library discovery (u:find / u:search) and student-information systems are public web services but do not publish open developer documentation. No central, branded API developer portal or official GitHub organization was confirmed.

## Kin Score — 35.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 60.2 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (16)

- **PHAIDRA OAI-PMH Endpoint** — OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the PHAIDRA repository, used by aggregators such as OpenAIRE, Europeana, BASE, OAPEN, EBSCO and Primo. Supports the oai_dc (Dublin Core...
- **HEI API (University of Vienna record)** — The pan-European Higher Education Institutions (HEI) API, operated by the European University Foundation, publishes structured institutional data for the University of Vienna in...
- **University of Vienna datastream API** — Requests for transforming and validating datastreams
- **University of Vienna directory API** — Requests related to users, user groups and organisation structure
- **University of Vienna imageserver API** — Requests to the imageserver
- **University of Vienna lists API** — Requests for manipulating object lists
- **University of Vienna misc API** — The misc API from University of Vienna — 7 operation(s) for misc.
- **University of Vienna oai-pmh API** — Look at the [OAI-PMH protocol](https://www.openarchives.org/pmh) used in this endpoint
- **University of Vienna object-advanced API** — Additional requests for the manipulation of digital objects
- **University of Vienna object-basics API** — Most important requests you'll need to manage digital objects in PHAIDRA
- **University of Vienna relationships API** — Requests for adding and removing object relationships
- **University of Vienna search API** — The search API from University of Vienna — 1 operation(s) for search.
- **University of Vienna session API** — Session management
- **University of Vienna stats API** — The stats API from University of Vienna — 4 operation(s) for stats.
- **University of Vienna templates API** — Requests for managing metadata templates
- **University of Vienna vocabularies API** — Requests for controlled vocabularies

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Vienna Agentic Access** — 145 operations · 76 acting

## Security (2)

- **University Of Vienna Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **University Of Vienna Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Vienna Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Repository, Open Data, Austria, Europe

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