# University of Wisconsin-Madison

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-wisconsin-madison/  
**Website:** https://www.wisc.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 16

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, and one of the very few institutions in this cohort that genuinely operates an API program of its own rather than pointing at a vendor's. Its Division of Information Technology (DoIT) runs a formal API Program on a UW-owned Google Apigee organization (doit-ipt-apigee-prod-ce29), fronted by a public developer portal at developer.wisc.edu, and publishes eleven OpenAPI 3.0 contracts — 245 operations across Person, HR, Manifest (Grouper groups), Finance, Locations, Enterprise Billing and OAuth — every one of them served from api.wisc.edu or mock.api.wisc.edu with a wisc.edu contact. Nothing in this repository is a vendor contract running under the institution's name: there is no Figshare, Pure, Ex Libris, Dataverse or Symplectic surface attributed here. Beyond the gateway, UW-Madison operates a fully public unauthenticated course-search API at public.enroll.wisc.edu, its own Shibboleth identity provider at login.wisc.edu speaking both SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the MINDS@UW institutional repository. The honest limits: production access is gated behind a manual institutional approval per API product and is effectively closed to anyone without a UW NetID, the estate declares zero OAuth scopes, no contract carries a license or terms of service, and the developer portal is a client-rendered single-page app that returns an identical 2,138-byte shell for every URL — including ones that do not exist. Learning management runs on a Canvas tenant, recorded here as a tenant relationship and not as UW-Madison engineering.

## Kin Score — 52.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+30.7 from 21.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 63.7 |
| Governance | 31.8 |
| Contract Governance | 31.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 79.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 39.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| 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: high).

## APIs (16)

- **Person API** — Authoritative person and identity data for UW-Madison — names, populations, affiliations, contact points, exports and webhooks. 47 operations over 31 paths, JSON:API envelopes, ...
- **Mock Person API** — Openly published mock of the Person API on mock.api.wisc.edu, mirroring all 47 operations so the contract and data shape are public even though production data is not. An unusua...
- **Mock Person API (Certificates)** — Certificate-authentication variant of the Mock Person API — 39 operations over 23 paths, published for testing the mTLS/certificate access path documented on the portal.
- **HR API** — Institutional HR data — academic units, supervisory organizations, job profiles, positions and full-time-equivalent data, surfacing Workday-derived concepts under UW-Madison's o...
- **Mock HR API** — Openly published mock of the HR API on mock.api.wisc.edu, mirroring all 9 operations.
- **Manifest API** — Group and membership data for UW-Madison's Manifest service, backed by Internet2 Grouper Web Services. 5 operations, JSON:API, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, manual approval. Tog...
- **Mock Manifest API** — Openly published mock of the Manifest API on mock.api.wisc.edu.
- **Finance API** — The largest contract in the estate — 73 operations covering sponsored research and financial administration: awards, award lines and tasks, grants, gifts, funds, cost centers, b...
- **Locations API** — Campus location, building and room reference data. 3 operations, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, maintained by the DoIT EBS/IBS API team (locations-api@doit.wisc.edu).
- **Enterprise Billing API** — Service-provider billing transaction submission and lookup, backed by Salesforce. 7 operations. Recorded as published, with a defect noted honestly: the contract listed in the P...
- **OAuth API** — The token endpoint for the whole gateway — POST https://api.wisc.edu/oauth/token, HTTP Basic presentation of client_id/client_secret, returning the bearer access token every oth...
- **Public Course Search API** — UW-Madison's only openly callable API — the unauthenticated JSON search behind public.enroll.wisc.edu/search. Verified live on 2026-08-19: GET /terms returns the open term codes...
- **UW-Madison Identity Provider (Shibboleth)** — Institution-operated Shibboleth IdP at login.wisc.edu, machine-readable on two protocols and almost never catalogued for a university. https://login.wisc.edu/idp/shibboleth retu...
- **MINDS@UW OAI-PMH Endpoint** — Live OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for MINDS@UW, UW-Madison's institutional repository. Confirmed with ?verb=Identify — repositoryName 'MINDS@UW', protocolVersion 2.0, adminEm...
- **Curricular Data Model** — UW-Madison's curricular data model (v1.5), published as generated Javadoc-style reference documentation on the DoIT WAMS host. Verified live and genuinely institution-operated, ...
- **Canvas LMS (tenant)** — UW-Madison's learning management system runs on an Instructure Canvas tenant at canvas.wisc.edu, gated behind the institution's own Shibboleth IdP — an unauthenticated request 3...

## Security (2)

- **University Of Wisconsin Madison Authentication** — oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **University Of Wisconsin Madison Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Wisconsin Madison Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Public Research University, United States, Wisconsin, Big Ten, Association of American Universities, Identity, Identity Federation, Course Catalog, Research Repository, Student Information System, Human Resources, Finance, Curriculum

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