University of Zurich

aid: university-of-zurich
name: University of Zurich
description: 'The University of Zurich (UZH) is Switzerland''s largest university, founded in 1833, and is ranked #61 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. UZH does not operate a centralized public developer portal; its machine-readable footprint
  is centered on open scholarship and identity infrastructure. The Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) exposes the university''s
  research output, the GitHub organization "uzh" hosts open-source projects, and federated identity is provided through SWITCH
  edu-ID (SAML/Shibboleth and OpenID Connect). Most student-facing systems (course catalogue, OLAT LMS, student services)
  are web/SSO-gated rather than openly documented APIs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-zurich/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Switzerland
- Open Access
- Research Repository
- Open Data
- Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-zurich:zora-oai
  name: ZORA Repository OAI-PMH
  description: The Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) provides open, worldwide access to the peer-reviewed research
    and scholarly output of the University of Zurich. ZORA supports OAI-PMH 2.0 for metadata harvesting. As of October 2025
    ZORA migrated from EPrints to DSpace; the OAI-PMH base URL is served from the DSpace stack and the legacy EPrints endpoint
    (/cgi/oai2) is no longer active.
  humanURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
  baseURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
- aid: university-of-zurich:zora-rest
  name: ZORA DSpace REST API
  description: Following its 2025 migration to DSpace 7+, ZORA exposes the standard DSpace REST API (HAL+JSON) for programmatic
    discovery of communities, collections, and items representing UZH research output. This is the underlying DSpace back-end
    API rather than a bespoke UZH developer product.
  humanURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
  baseURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
- aid: university-of-zurich:eduid-oidc
  name: SWITCH edu-ID / UZH Identity (SAML & OpenID Connect)
  description: UZH uses SWITCH edu-ID as its central identity, which is mandatory for SWITCHaai (Shibboleth/SAML) protected
    services and also supports modern OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 flows. The UZH edu-ID linking service offers an OAuth 2.0
    login. This is federated identity infrastructure used to protect UZH services rather than a generally available public
    API.
  humanURL: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - OpenID Connect
  - OAuth2
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://eduid.uzh.ch/linking/login
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-zurich-eduid-oidc.yaml
  - type: x-openid-configuration
    url: https://login.eduid.ch/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/university-of-zurich-userinfo-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-zurich-userinfo-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-zurich-userinfo-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-zurich-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-zurich-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-zurich-context.jsonld
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uzh.ch/en.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uzh
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uzh
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/UZH_en
- type: Authentication
  url: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-zurich-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-zurich-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-zurich-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com