Uppsala University

aid: uppsala
name: Uppsala University
description: 'Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet) is Sweden''s oldest university, founded in 1477, and is ranked #103
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is research-driven and decentralized across
  departments and infrastructures rather than a single developer portal. Confirmed public interfaces include the Uppsala Conflict
  Data Program (UCDP) RESTful API, the Norse World REST-API, and the DiVA institutional repository OAI-PMH endpoint. The university
  maintains an official GitHub organization hosting integration and research code.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uppsala/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Sweden
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: uppsala:ucdp
  name: UCDP API
  description: The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) API is a fully RESTful HTTP API returning JSON, providing programmatic
    access to UCDP conflict datasets including georeferenced events (gedevents), armed conflict, dyadic, non-state, one-sided
    violence, and battle-related deaths datasets. Access requires a free access token obtained from the API maintainer, supplied
    via the x-ucdp-access-token HTTP header, with a quota of 5,000 requests per day.
  humanURL: https://ucdp.uu.se/apidocs/
  baseURL: https://ucdpapi.pcr.uu.se/api/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Conflict Data
  - REST
  - JSON
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ucdp.uu.se/apidocs/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://ucdp.uu.se/apidocs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/uppsala-ucdp.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/uppsala-gedevent-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/uppsala-gedevent-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/uppsala-gedevents-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/uppsala-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/uppsala-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/uppsala-context.jsonld
- aid: uppsala:norseworld
  name: Norse World REST-API
  description: The Norse World REST-API, part of the Norse World research infrastructure at Uppsala University's Department
    of Scandinavian Languages, provides access to attestation and location records of foreign place names in medieval Nordic
    texts. Endpoints (getAttestationAPI.php and getLocationAPI.php) return data as JSON, GeoJSON, or JSON-LD via a ?format=
    parameter and are usable directly from a URL or GIS tools.
  humanURL: https://www.uu.se/en/research/norseworld/infrastructure/rest-api
  baseURL: https://norseworld.nordiska.uu.se/shared/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Linked Data
  - GeoJSON
  - JSON-LD
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.uu.se/en/research/norseworld/infrastructure/rest-api
- aid: uppsala:diva-oai
  name: DiVA OAI-PMH
  description: DiVA (Academic Archive On-line) is Uppsala University Library's institutional repository for publications and
    research data produced by the university's researchers and students. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting
    publication metadata (oai_dc and other prefixes).
  humanURL: https://www.uu.se/en/library/publish/diva
  baseURL: https://uu.diva-portal.org/dice/oai
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.uu.se/en/library/publish/diva
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uu.se/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uppsala-university
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uppsala-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/uppsala-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/uppsala-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/uppsala-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com