University of Waikato

aid: university-of-waikato
name: University of Waikato
description: 'The University of Waikato (Te Whare Wananga o Waikato) is a public research university in Hamilton, New Zealand,
  founded in 1964 and ranked #235 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its publicly observable developer/API footprint
  is anchored by its DSpace 7.6.5 institutional repository, Research Commons, which exposes a documented REST API and an OAI-PMH
  2.0 interface, alongside operational APIs run by IT Services (a One-Time Secret API and a campus identity/SSO provider)
  and research-software APIs from its Computing and Mathematical Sciences faculty (notably the User-friendly Deep Learning
  framework). There is no single consolidated developer portal; most APIs are service-specific and several require institutional
  accounts.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-waikato/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Institutional Repository
- Open Access
- New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-rest
  name: Research Commons REST API
  description: DSpace 7.6.5 REST API for the University of Waikato's Research Commons open access institutional repository,
    providing programmatic access to communities, collections, items, bitstreams and discovery search over the university's
    research publications and theses. The API root reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.5" and resolved live during review.
  humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Scholarly
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
- aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-oai
  name: Research Commons OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Research Commons. An Identify request returns repositoryName "Research
    Commons" with baseURL https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request and an earliest datestamp of 1972, supporting
    standard verbs for harvesting Dublin Core and related metadata formats.
  humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-waikato:ots
  name: One-Time Secret (OTS) API
  description: REST API operated by University of Waikato IT Services for creating and managing one-time secrets that can
    be shared securely and retrieved only once before being deleted. All requests use JSON over HTTPS and require HTTP Basic
    Authentication with a Stella account username and an API token. The documentation page resolved live during review.
  humanURL: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
  baseURL: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/api
  tags:
  - Security
  - Secrets
  - IT Services
  - Utility
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
- aid: university-of-waikato:ufdl
  name: User-friendly Deep Learning (UFDL) API
  description: JSON REST API for the University of Waikato's User-friendly Deep Learning (UFDL) framework, developed by the
    Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences to make deep learning more accessible to domain experts. The API covers
    authentication, projects, teams and users; job templates, scheduling and outputs; and dataset management for image classification,
    object detection and speech. Documentation is described as work in progress.
  humanURL: https://ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz/ufdl-api/
  tags:
  - Machine Learning
  - Deep Learning
  - Research
  - Data Science
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz/ufdl-api/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/waikato-ufdl
- aid: university-of-waikato:identity
  name: University of Waikato Identity Provider (uowidp)
  description: Campus single sign-on / identity provider service hosted at api.svc.waikato.ac.nz under the uowidp path. The
    v1 login endpoint resolved live during review and serves a University of Waikato sign-in interface for authenticating
    to institutional services. Access is gated to university accounts; no public developer documentation was located.
  humanURL: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/login
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - Authentication
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/login
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Waikato
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universityofwaikato/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/waikato
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Waikato/waikato-repositories
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-waikato-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-waikato-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-waikato-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com