University of Western Australia

aid: uwa
name: University of Western Australia
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in Perth, Western Australia, a member
  of the Group of Eight, and ranked in the top 100 of the QS World University Rankings. Its programmable footprint is small,
  and most of what appears to be a UWA API is not: the research repository at research-repository.uwa.edu.au runs on Elsevier
  Pure and its /ws/api/524 web service is Elsevier''s contract, and library discovery at onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au is Ex
  Libris Primo VE under tenant 61UWA_INST. Both are real UWA services and neither is UWA engineering. What UWA genuinely operates
  and exposes is narrower and more interesting: a fully open, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint at api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/oai
  serving 167 sets across five metadata formats with no key required, and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider publishing
  signed federation metadata at idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth. UWA also runs a Microsoft Azure API Management estate — a developer
  portal at api-portal.uwa.edu.au and a live gateway at api.uwa.edu.au — but the product catalog sits behind sign-in and the
  portal''s own signup path returns 404, so nothing there is publicly enumerable. No open data portal, no public course or
  timetable API, and no first-party OpenAPI of any kind was found.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - probes
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open harvesting endpoint, no key required
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - probes
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/uwa.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Australia
- Group of Eight
- Perth
- Research
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: uwa:oai-pmh
  name: UWA Research Repository OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: An open, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint operated by UWA on its own host. All six
    protocol verbs returned 200 on 2026-08-30 with no credential presented. Identify reports adminEmail help-repository@uwa.edu.au
    and an earliestDatestamp of 2014-08-20; ListMetadataFormats advertises oai_dc, qdc, mods, xmetadiss and nl_didl; ListSets
    enumerates 167 sets covering persons, publications by year from 1946 to 2026, datasets, and an openaire set, with every
    response schema-located against the OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile. The repository software underneath is Elsevier Pure, but
    OAI-PMH is an open standard rather than a vendor contract, the host is UWA's own registrable domain, and the administrative
    contact is a UWA address — so this is recorded as institution-operated. It is the only UWA API surface anyone can call
    today without an account.
  humanURL: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/uwa-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: x-openapi-original
    url: openapi/_original/uwa-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/uwa-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/uwa-conformance.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/uwa-authentication.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: uwa:identity-federation
  name: UWA Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
  x-operator: institution
  description: UWA operates its own Shibboleth identity provider and publishes signed SAML 2.0 federation metadata at https://idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    (200, 5,081 bytes). The document is an EntityDescriptor with entityID https://idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, an IDPSSODescriptor
    supporting urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol, signing and encryption key descriptors (uwa-prod-signing-cert, CN=idp.uwa.edu.au),
    a shibmd:Scope of uwa.edu.au, transient NameID, and SingleSignOnService bindings for both HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect.
    Institution-operated by definition, machine-readable, and the credential behind essentially every affiliation-gated UWA
    service. This is the surface class universities genuinely run and almost never catalogue.
  humanURL: https://idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  baseURL: https://idp.uwa.edu.au/idp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/uwa-conformance.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/uwa-authentication.yml
- aid: uwa:developer-portal
  name: UWA API Gateway and Developer Portal (Azure API Management)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'UWA runs a Microsoft Azure API Management estate on its own domains. The developer portal at api-portal.uwa.edu.au
    returns 200 but serves the stock unbranded Azure APIM shell — title "Home - Microsoft Azure API Management - developer
    portal" — with the product and API catalog behind sign-in, and its documented /signup path returns 404. The runtime gateway
    at api.uwa.edu.au is live: a bare GET answers HTTP/2 404 with content-type application/json and an Azure request-context
    header, which is APIM''s no-matching-operation response. So UWA demonstrably operates an API gateway; it publishes nothing
    about what runs on it. No OpenAPI, no product list, and no endpoint is enumerable without an account.'
  humanURL: https://api-portal.uwa.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.uwa.edu.au/
  tags:
  - API Management
  - Developer Portal
  - Azure
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-portal.uwa.edu.au/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/uwa-authentication.yml
- aid: uwa:research-repository
  name: UWA Profiles and Research Repository (Elsevier Pure tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'UWA''s research information system and public research portal, running on Elsevier Pure at research-repository.uwa.edu.au
    with a CRIS web service at api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/api/524. The data is UWA''s — its researchers, outputs,
    projects, datasets and DOIs — and the repository is a genuine UWA service. The contract is not UWA''s: the OpenAPI served
    there declares info.title "Pure Web Service 524" and info.contact.name "Elsevier", and it is the same product contract
    every Pure customer receives. It is recorded here as a tenant relationship only. The spec, and the 28 per-tag OpenAPIs
    and every schema, example, collection, ruleset, vocabulary and capability map that had been derived from it, were removed
    from this repo on 2026-08-30 — they were Elsevier''s engineering credited to UWA. Access requires a Pure API key issued
    from the Pure Administrator tab.'
  humanURL: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/api/524
  x-vendor: Elsevier
  x-vendor-product: Pure
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - CRIS
  - Research Data
  - Vendor Platform
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/api/524/api-docs/documentation/Default.htm
- aid: uwa:library-catalog
  name: UWA Library OneSearch (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: UWA Library discovery, served from onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au and redirecting to an Ex Libris Primo VE application
    scoped to vid=61UWA_INST. The tenancy is UWA's; the discovery platform, its APIs and its contract are Ex Libris's. Recorded
    as a relationship, with no Ex Libris spec saved under this institution.
  humanURL: https://onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au/
  x-vendor: Ex Libris
  x-vendor-product: Primo VE
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Vendor Platform
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: LibraryCatalog
    url: https://onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/news
- type: Support
  url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/contact-us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/disclaimer-copyright
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/uwa
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-university-of-western-australia/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/uwanews
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-portal.uwa.edu.au/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://guides.library.uwa.edu.au/artificial_intelligence
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/students/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/students/academic-support/using-artificial-intelligence-tools-at-uwa---a-guide-for-students-(2026).pdf
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/uwa-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/uwa-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/uwa-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/uwa-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/uwa-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/uwa-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  detail: 'UWA operates two real, machine-readable, institution-owned surfaces and both were read in full: an unauthenticated
    OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint at api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/oai (all six verbs 200, 167 sets, five metadata prefixes)
    and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider publishing federation metadata at idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth. Beyond those
    two the footprint is genuinely thin and the thinness is structural rather than a gap in this run. UWA''s Azure API Management
    estate is live — the gateway at api.uwa.edu.au answers as APIM — but the developer portal at api-portal.uwa.edu.au serves
    the stock Azure shell with the catalog behind sign-in and a 404 on /signup, so nothing there is enumerable. The two largest
    apparent APIs are vendor contracts under UWA tenancy: Elsevier Pure at /ws/api/524 (info.contact.name "Elsevier") and
    Ex Libris Primo VE at onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au; both are recorded as x-operator tenant and neither spec is saved here.
    No open data portal exists — data.uwa.edu.au and data.research.uwa.edu.au do not resolve. No public course, timetable,
    transit or room-booking API was found; handbooks.uwa.edu.au and resourcebooker.uwa.edu.au are HTML applications. The github.com/uwa
    organisation is verified as The University of Western Australia but holds zero public repositories. UWA publishes no first-party
    OpenAPI of any kind.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/oai?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp.uwa.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://api-portal.uwa.edu.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://api-portal.uwa.edu.au/signup
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.uwa.edu.au/
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/api/524/openapi.yaml
    status: 401
  - url: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://data.uwa.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://research.uwa.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.uwa.edu.au/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://idp.uwa.edu.au/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 404
x-enrichment:
  contract: 0-working/pipeline-university.md
  run: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  note: 'Re-profiled under the university pipeline''s operator axis. The June 2026 profile carried 29 apis[] entries, 28 of
    which were per-tag splits of a single Elsevier Pure Web Service contract that had additionally been mis-based onto the
    Azure portal host in apis.yml. Those 28 entries, the 28 refined OpenAPIs, the pristine source spec and all 92 artifacts
    derived from it were removed. Two genuinely institution-operated surfaces were found and added: an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint
    and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider. This correction is expected to lower UWA''s Kin Score, because the score
    it previously carried was Elsevier''s.'
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