Vanderbilt University

aid: vanderbilt
name: Vanderbilt University
x-type: university
x-category: Private Research University
description: 'Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Its programmable footprint is
  real but narrow, and it does not live where a company''s would: there is no central developer portal, no API key, and no
  self-service onboarding anywhere on vanderbilt.edu. What exists is operated almost entirely by the Jean and Alexander Heard
  Libraries, and all of it is open to the public without a credential. Three surfaces were verified live on 2026-09-01: the
  Vanderbilt Television News Archive serverless API, which serves 98,371 network television news broadcasts and 969,224 news
  segments recorded continuously since 5 August 1968; a public SPARQL 1.1 endpoint at sparql.vanderbilt.edu holding 14.4 million
  triples of linked open data; and the Vanderbilt Institutional Repository, a self-hosted DSpace 9.1 deployment exposing both
  a HAL REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint under the university''s own domain. Vanderbilt''s identity estate — an Okta org on
  onevu.vanderbilt.edu and a Microsoft Entra ID tenant for vanderbilt.edu — publishes live OpenID Connect discovery and SAML
  2.0 metadata. Library discovery runs on Ex Libris Alma/Primo as a vendor tenancy (01VAN_INST) and is not Vanderbilt''s contract.
  The Azure API Management developer portal and the VUIT API Services catalog page recorded in the June 2026 profile were
  re-probed and are both dead; they have been removed rather than left standing as claims.'
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vanderbilt.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vanderbilt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · no credential required
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Producing
access: Public
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Private Research University
- Research Data
- Institutional Repository
- Linked Data
- SPARQL
- Digital Collections
- Television News Archive
- Identity Federation
- Library
- Nashville
- Tennessee
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: vanderbilt:television-news-archive
  name: Vanderbilt Television News Archive API
  description: Public read API behind tvnews.vanderbilt.edu, self-identifying as the "TVNA Serverless API" v1.0.0. Search,
    browse and retrieve United States network television news broadcasts and segments recorded continuously since 5 August
    1968 — 98,371 broadcasts, 969,224 news segments, 396,720 commercial segments, 58,517 hours of runtime. Every read operation
    probed returned 200 with no credential. Built and operated by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries; the source repository
    is HeardLibrary/TVNA-serverless-api. Vanderbilt publishes no OpenAPI for it, so the contract here is derived from live
    probes and is marked as such.
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
  baseURL: https://7itm2l2dz8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod
  tags:
  - Television News
  - Digital Collections
  - Search
  - Media Archive
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vanderbilt-television-news-archive-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/vanderbilt-television-news-archive-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://blog.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/welcome/access-information/
  - type: Website
    url: https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
- aid: vanderbilt:sparql
  name: Vanderbilt Libraries SPARQL Endpoint
  description: Public, unauthenticated SPARQL 1.1 Protocol endpoint on Vanderbilt's own domain, operated by the Heard Libraries'
    Linked Data, Wikidata and Semantic Web working groups. Holds 14,366,116 triples across named graphs covering Bioimages,
    the Apulian vase collection, Syriaca.org, SPEAR, Architectura Sinica, TDWG vocabularies and Getty AAT extracts. Query-via-GET
    and query-via-POST bindings both verified returning application/sparql-results+json.
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://sparql.vanderbilt.edu/sparql
  baseURL: https://sparql.vanderbilt.edu
  tags:
  - Linked Data
  - SPARQL
  - RDF
  - Semantic Web
  - Digital Scholarship
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vanderbilt-sparql-openapi.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/vanderbilt-linked-data-vocabulary.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/HeardLibrary/linked-data
- aid: vanderbilt:institutional-repository
  name: Vanderbilt Institutional Repository (VUIR)
  description: Self-hosted DSpace 9.1 institutional repository on Vanderbilt's own domain and infrastructure. The HAL REST
    API root at irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api advertises 80 link relations and reports dspaceName "Vanderbilt Institutional
    Repository"; anonymous read is open. The deployment, the content, the handle prefix 1803 and the administrative contact
    are all Vanderbilt's. The DSpace product contract itself is generic to every DSpace deployment and is deliberately NOT
    saved here — it belongs to the DSpace project, not to Vanderbilt.
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/
  baseURL: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - Research Data
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Scholarly Communication
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/HeardLibrary/vu-ir
- aid: vanderbilt:institutional-repository-oai-pmh
  name: Vanderbilt Institutional Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the Vanderbilt Institutional Repository. Identify returns repositoryName
    "Vanderbilt Institutional Repository", repositoryIdentifier ir.vanderbilt.edu and adminEmail dale.poulter@vanderbilt.edu
    — an institution-operated endpoint, on an institution host, with an institution contact. This is one of the two education-regime
    domain standards Vanderbilt actually conforms to with evidence.
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  baseURL: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/vanderbilt-education-standards-conformance.yml
- aid: vanderbilt:onevu-identity
  name: Vanderbilt Okta Identity Provider (OneVU)
  description: Vanderbilt's Okta organisation on its own custom domain onevu.vanderbilt.edu (CNAME to vanderbilt.customdomains.okta.com).
    Publishes a live OpenID Connect discovery document and SAML 2.0 IdP metadata. The platform is Okta's; the identity provider,
    the accounts and the domain are Vanderbilt's — recorded as a federation surface, which is what the institution actually
    operates here.
  x-operator: federation
  humanURL: https://onevu.vanderbilt.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
  baseURL: https://onevu.vanderbilt.edu
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - OpenID Connect
  - SAML
  - OAuth
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Discovery
    url: https://onevu.vanderbilt.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/vanderbilt-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/vanderbilt-scopes.yml
- aid: vanderbilt:entra-identity
  name: Vanderbilt Microsoft Entra ID Tenant
  description: 'The vanderbilt.edu Microsoft Entra ID tenant (ba5a7f39-e3be-4ab3-b450-67fa80faecad), publishing live OpenID
    Connect discovery and SAML 2.0 / WS-Federation metadata. A federation surface: shared platform, Vanderbilt''s own directory
    and entity behind it.'
  x-operator: federation
  humanURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/vanderbilt.edu/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/ba5a7f39-e3be-4ab3-b450-67fa80faecad
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - OpenID Connect
  - SAML
  - Entra ID
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Discovery
    url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/vanderbilt.edu/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/vanderbilt-authentication.yml
- aid: vanderbilt:shibboleth-service-provider
  name: VUIR Shibboleth Service Provider
  description: SAML 2.0 Service Provider metadata for the Vanderbilt Institutional Repository, entityID https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/shibboleth,
    served live from the repository host. The DiscoFeed names the Okta IdP it trusts. Note the document carries Shibboleth's
    stock "example metadata only" header, so it is auto-generated SP metadata rather than a curated federation registration
    — recorded honestly as such.
  x-operator: institution
  humanURL: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/Shibboleth.sso/Metadata
  baseURL: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/Shibboleth.sso
  tags:
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Identity Federation
  - Institutional Repository
  properties:
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/vanderbilt-education-standards-conformance.yml
- aid: vanderbilt:primo-discovery
  name: Ex Libris Primo / Alma Library Discovery (01VAN_INST)
  description: Vanderbilt's library discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE with the institution code 01VAN_INST and view
    vanui. catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu is a CNAME to vanderbilt.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, so the platform, the software
    and the contract are Ex Libris'. Vanderbilt's tenancy is real and is recorded here; the vendor's API contract is not saved
    under this institution. The Alma OAI endpoint for 01VAN_INST returned 403 — live but not open.
  x-operator: tenant
  humanURL: https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/
  baseURL: https://vanderbilt.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Vendor Tenancy
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/
- aid: vanderbilt:crossref-member
  name: Crossref Membership — Vanderbilt University Library
  description: 'Vanderbilt University Library is Crossref member 6384, DOI prefix 10.15695, with 2,375 DOIs registered (164
    current, 2,211 backfile) as of 2026-09-01. A registry membership: a fact about the institution, recorded as such. Crossref''s
    own API contract is not saved here.'
  x-operator: registry
  humanURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/6384
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Registry
  - Scholarly Communication
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.crossref.org/members/6384
- aid: vanderbilt:ror
  name: ROR Registration — Vanderbilt University
  description: Vanderbilt University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/02vm5rt34. Distinct
    from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (05dq2gs74), Vanderbilt Health (05grhsk96) and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer
    Center (02rjj2m04), which are separate ROR entities and are deliberately not folded into this profile.
  x-operator: registry
  humanURL: https://ror.org/02vm5rt34
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Registry
  - Research Identifiers
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/02vm5rt34
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/privacy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/heardlibrary
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/vanderbilt-data-science
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/vanderbilt-university/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://onevu.vanderbilt.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/vanderbilt-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vanderbilt-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/vanderbilt-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/vanderbilt-errors.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/vanderbilt-examples.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/vanderbilt-linked-data-vocabulary.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vanderbilt-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/vanderbilt-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/vanderbilt-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/vanderbilt-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/vanderbilt-context.jsonld
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Three institution-operated, publicly callable APIs were found and verified live on 2026-09-01 — the Television
    News Archive serverless API, a SPARQL 1.1 endpoint holding 14.4M triples, and a self-hosted DSpace 9.1 repository with
    both a HAL REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint — plus two federation surfaces (Okta and Entra ID) publishing live OIDC and
    SAML metadata, and two registry memberships (Crossref 6384, ROR 02vm5rt34). None of these appeared in the 2026-06-03 profile,
    which concluded no public API existed. What that profile did record was dead: apim-portal.app.vanderbilt.edu returns NXDOMAIN
    in public DNS and the VUIT API Services catalog page returns a persistent 500 with no replacement in the current catalog
    index; both pointers were removed. Vanderbilt still publishes no developer portal, no API key programme, no llms.txt,
    no apis.json and no robots.txt on www.vanderbilt.edu, and its GitHub org vanderbiltu has zero public repositories — the
    engineering that exists is the Heard Libraries'', published under github.com/HeardLibrary.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://7itm2l2dz8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod
    status: 200
  - url: https://7itm2l2dz8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/broadcasts
    status: 200
  - url: https://sparql.vanderbilt.edu/sparql
    status: 200
  - url: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/Shibboleth.sso/Metadata
    status: 200
  - url: https://onevu.vanderbilt.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/vanderbilt.edu/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/6384
    status: 200
  - url: https://ror.org/02vm5rt34
    status: 200
  - url: https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/
    status: 200
  - url: https://na04.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/01VAN_INST/request?verb=Identify
    status: 403
  - url: https://apim-portal.app.vanderbilt.edu/
    status: 0
  - url: https://it.vanderbilt.edu/services/catalog/infrastructure/middleware/application_program_interface_services.php
    status: 500
  - url: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/apis.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Avanderbilt.edu
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=vanderbilt
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  pipeline: pipeline-university
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  note: Re-profiled under the university pipeline's operator axis. Every apis[] entry carries an x-operator. Two vendor/registry
    hosts (Ex Libris, Crossref/ROR) are recorded as relationships without saving their contracts; the DSpace and OAI-PMH product
    contracts are likewise not saved, only the deployments. No misattributed vendor contract was found in this repo to remove.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com