University of Queensland

aid: uq
name: University of Queensland
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Queensland (UQ) is a public research university in Brisbane, Australia, a member of the Group
  of Eight and of Universitas 21. Like nearly every institution of its kind, UQ is a federation of buyers rather than an API
  producer, and its programmable footprint has to be described honestly: UQ operates no developer portal, publishes no API
  terms, and offers no self-service registration for any interface. What it does operate, verified live on 2026-08-30, is
  three genuinely institution-run machine-readable surfaces. First, a keyless status API at status.its.uq.edu.au serving JSON,
  RSS and SVG covering 678 systems across 43 service categories. Second, a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth identity provider that self-serves
  its own EntityDescriptor at idp-prod.uq.edu.au and is registered in the Australian Access Federation alongside 27 UQ-operated
  service providers. Third, the UQ eSpace repository API on UQ''s own host api.library.uq.edu.au, built and run by UQ Library''s
  own engineering team in the open on GitHub, but blocked to outside clients by a CloudFront WAF. UQ''s institutional data
  platforms — the Central Integration Platform and Data Hub — are real but entirely gated behind an access-request process.
  Its discovery layer (Ex Libris Primo), reading lists (Talis Aspire) and open-data publishing (the Queensland Government
  CKAN portal) are tenancies on platforms other parties operate, and are recorded here as tenant relationships rather than
  as UQ contracts.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  note: Corrected from callable_host false. https://status.its.uq.edu.au/index.json answered an anonymous keyless GET with
    HTTP 200 and 86,448 bytes of JSON on 2026-08-30.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · no registration
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  note: Applies to the status API only. Every other UQ surface is either WAF-blocked, captcha-gated or behind an access-request
    process; see x-coverage.
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/uq.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Australia
- Group of Eight
- Research
- Institutional Repository
- Identity Federation
- Status
- Library
- Research Computing
- Open Data
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: uq:status-api
  name: UQ Status API
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: status.its.uq.edu.au is under uq.edu.au, the institution's own registrable domain; UQ ITS runs the
    deployment and the content is UQ's own service inventory. The response format is that of cState 5.3, an open-source status-page
    generator UQ self-hosts — a platform choice, not an outsourced service.
  description: Keyless read-only JSON, RSS and SVG feeds describing the operational state of 678 University of Queensland
    systems across 43 service categories, plus every published incident. All five endpoints returned HTTP 200 to an anonymous
    GET on 2026-08-30. This is the only openly callable interface the institution operates.
  baseURL: https://status.its.uq.edu.au
  humanURL: https://status.its.uq.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Status
  - JSON
  - RSS
  - Keyless
  tags_raw:
  - Status
  - Operations
  - JSON
  - RSS
  - Keyless
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/uq-status-openapi.yml
  - type: x-openapi-original
    url: openapi/_original/uq-status-openapi.yml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/uq-status-index-schema.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/uq-status-index-example.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/uq-status-authentication.yml
  - type: x-errors
    url: errors/uq-status-errors.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/uq-status-rules.yml
  - type: x-lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/uq-status-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.its.uq.edu.au/
- aid: uq:identity-federation
  name: UQ Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth)
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: UQ self-serves its own SAML EntityDescriptor from idp-prod.uq.edu.au (HTTP 200, application/xml, 4,423
    bytes) and asserts shibmd:Scope uq.edu.au. The Australian Access Federation is the registry the entity is published through,
    not the operator of the service.
  description: UQ operates a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth identity provider, entityID urn:mace:federation.org.au:testfed:uq.edu.au,
    with SSO endpoints for the HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST and HTTP-POST-SimpleSign bindings. The entity is present in the live
    Australian Access Federation aggregate (360 entities) together with 27 UQ-operated service providers, giving UQ eduGAIN
    reach. Institution-operated by definition and machine-readable — this is the most substantial standards conformance UQ
    holds.
  baseURL: https://idp-prod.uq.edu.au
  humanURL: https://idp-prod.uq.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Federation
  - eduGAIN
  - AAF
  properties:
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/uq-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://idp-prod.uq.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  - type: x-federation-metadata
    url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- aid: uq:espace-api
  name: UQ eSpace REST API
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: api.library.uq.edu.au is under uq.edu.au. The client that calls it, uqlibrary/fez-frontend, is UQ Library's
    own open-source code and names this host in its example.env; the operations (records, fez-authors, journals, vocabularies,
    orcid) are UQ eSpace's own resources, not a vendor product's.
  description: 'REST API behind UQ eSpace, the institutional repository for UQ research outputs and datasets, operated on
    UQ''s own host by UQ Library. Not callable from outside the institution: every path probed on 2026-08-30 returned HTTP
    403 "Request blocked" from CloudFront. No contract is saved here because none could be fetched or verified — the interface
    is legible only through UQ Library''s own front-end source. UQ publishes no OpenAPI for it.'
  baseURL: https://api.library.uq.edu.au
  humanURL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:10582
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - REST
  - Research
  - Datasets
  - ORCID
  - Bot Blocked
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:10582
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uqlibrary/fez-frontend
  - type: x-sitemap
    url: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml
- aid: uq:central-integration
  name: Central Integration Platform
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Named by UQ as its own integration platform, run by the UQ ITS Integration Services Team.
  description: 'UQ''s internal API platform for transactional and business data, paired with the Data Hub synchronisation
    platform. Access is neither open nor self-service: consumers request access through the Integration Services Team and
    complete data governance approvals. No public endpoints, no published contract, no catalogue. The documentation page that
    the previous profile pointed at has moved and now returns HTTP 403 "Access denied" to anonymous clients, so that pointer
    has been removed rather than left in place as a claim.'
  humanURL: https://its.uq.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Integration
  - Enterprise Data
  - Gated
  - Access Controlled
  - No Public Endpoints
  properties:
  - type: Support
    url: https://its.uq.edu.au/
- aid: uq:qld-open-data
  name: Queensland Government Open Data Portal (UQ organisation)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: data.qld.gov.au is operated by the Queensland Government on CKAN. UQ is a publishing organisation on
    it under the slug university-of-queensland. UQ's data, the state's contract.
  description: UQ has no open data portal of its own. It publishes as an organisation on the Queensland Government's CKAN
    portal, where a live keyless package_search on 2026-08-30 returned a count of 2 datasets. Recorded as a tenant relationship
    so the fact is legible without crediting UQ with CKAN's engineering. The CKAN Action API contract belongs in the portal
    operator's record, not here.
  humanURL: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/organization/university-of-queensland
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - CKAN
  - Tenant
  - Government Portal
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?fq=organization:university-of-queensland
- aid: uq:library-discovery
  name: UQ Library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: search.library.uq.edu.au is UQ's own hostname but redirects to /discovery/search?vid=61UQ_INST:61UQ,
    the Ex Libris Primo VE tenant view code. Ex Libris runs the platform and wrote the contract; UQ supplies the collection
    and the branding. Host-based attribution would wrongly read this as institution-operated, which is exactly the failure
    this profile guards against.
  description: UQ's library discovery layer, a Primo VE tenancy on Ex Libris. No contract is saved under UQ — any Primo or
    Alma API definition belongs to Ex Libris and scores against Ex Libris.
  humanURL: https://search.library.uq.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Ex Libris
  - Tenant
- aid: uq:reading-lists
  name: UQ Reading Lists (Talis Aspire tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: uq.rl.talis.com is an institution-specific subdomain on Talis's own platform — the textbook tenant
    shape. Live HTTP 200 on 2026-08-30.
  description: UQ course reading lists hosted on Talis Aspire. Recorded as a tenant relationship; the Talis Aspire APIs are
    Talis's contract, not UQ's.
  humanURL: https://uq.rl.talis.com/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Reading Lists
  - Talis Aspire
  - Tenant
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uq.edu.au/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/uqlibrary
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-queensland/
- type: Status
  url: https://status.its.uq.edu.au/
- type: Blog
  url: https://news.uq.edu.au/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.my.uq.edu.au/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.uq.edu.au/legal/copyright-privacy-disclaimer/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.uq.edu.au/legal/website-terms-of-use/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp-prod.uq.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://search.library.uq.edu.au/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://study.uq.edu.au/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://rcc.uq.edu.au/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/organization/university-of-queensland
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://itali.uq.edu.au/teaching-guidance/artificial-intelligence-ai-and-learning-and-assessment
- type: AITooling
  url: https://ai.uq.edu.au/
- type: About
  url: https://about.uq.edu.au/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/uq-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/uq-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/uq-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/uq-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/uq-conformance.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/uq-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld
  url: json-ld/uq-context.jsonld
- type: x-blogs
  url: blogs/blogs.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  detail: 'Three institution-operated machine-readable surfaces were found, fetched and verified: the UQ Status API (keyless
    JSON/RSS/SVG, 678 systems), UQ''s self-served SAML 2.0 Shibboleth EntityDescriptor, and the UQ eSpace REST API on UQ''s
    own host. Coverage is nonetheless bounded by three real access barriers on UQ''s side, all recorded below rather than
    reported as absence: api.library.uq.edu.au answers every path with a CloudFront "Request blocked" 403; programs-courses.uq.edu.au
    answers GET with 405 and x-amzn-waf-action captcha; data.uq.edu.au 301-redirects into uq.sharepoint.com behind Microsoft
    Entra sign-in and its Central Integration Platform page now returns 403 Access denied. Two prior claims were corrected.
    The OAI-PMH endpoint the previous description asserted could not be reproduced — /oai.php, /oai2, /oai2.php and /oai/request
    all return the eSpace SPA shell, not an OAI-PMH response, and the re3data record making the claim still describes the
    retired Fez/Fedora stack. The DeveloperPortal pointer at data.uq.edu.au was removed: UQ operates no developer portal.
    Unofficial third-party UQ course scrapers on GitHub were found and deliberately not credited — they are neither on an
    institution domain nor institution-endorsed.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://status.its.uq.edu.au/index.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://status.its.uq.edu.au/issues/index.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://status.its.uq.edu.au/index.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp-prod.uq.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?fq=organization:university-of-queensland
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.library.uq.edu.au/records/types
    status: 403
    note: CloudFront "Request blocked" — WAF, not authentication. Live host, unreadable from outside.
  - url: https://programs-courses.uq.edu.au/
    status: 405
    note: 'awselb/2.0 with x-amzn-waf-action: captcha. Course catalog exists; machine access refused.'
  - url: https://data.uq.edu.au/access-and-share-data/central-integration-platform
    status: 403
    note: Access denied — the previous profile's documentation pointer, now dead. Removed.
  - url: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/oai.php?verb=Identify
    status: 403
    note: Returns the eSpace SPA shell. The asserted OAI-PMH endpoint could not be reproduced.
  - url: https://www.uq.edu.au/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.uq.edu.au/llms.txt
    status: 404
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com