# University of Waikato

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-waikato/  
**Website:** https://www.waikato.ac.nz/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| 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 (5)

- **Research Commons REST API** — 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, bi...
- **Research Commons OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Research Commons. An Identify request returns repositoryName "Research Commons" with baseURL https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/s...
- **One-Time Secret (OTS) API** — 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 r...
- **User-friendly Deep Learning (UFDL) API** — 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...
- **University of Waikato Identity Provider (uowidp)** — 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 Universit...

## Security (1)

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

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Waikato Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Institutional Repository, Open Access, New Zealand

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