Victoria University of Wellington
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is a public research university in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, and it operates almost no programmable surface of its own. It publishes no developer portal, no API documentation, no API keys, no status page and no changelog. What it has instead is what most universities have: a federation of vendor platforms bought under its own name, and four surfaces it genuinely runs itself. The four are a self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7 institutional repository at ir.wgtn.ac.nz — no CNAME, its own address space, 23,150 records harvestable over its own keyless OAI-PMH 2.0 base URL in twelve metadata formats, with an anonymously readable DSpace REST root, an OpenSearch 1.1 description and FAIR Signposting link sets alongside it; an undocumented but public, keyless JSON configuration endpoint on its own website (www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject, HTTP 200, CORS open to all origins); a self-hosted WSO2 Identity Server at auth-eis.vuw.ac.nz that issues SAML for the student-records system and whose every discovery endpoint answers HTTP 403 behind a web application firewall — live and protected, not missing; and a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider at idp.vuw.ac.nz, entityID https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, scope vuw.ac.nz, registered in the Tuakiri New Zealand Access Federation since 2012 with the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and a REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. The repository and the identity federation entry are the institution's most durable and most genuinely machine-readable assets, and both are classes of interface a university operates by definition rather than by purchase. Everything else programmable that carries the university's name is a tenancy: the Open Access research repository is a SECOND, Figshare-hosted repository on the institution's own openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz vanity domain (OAI-PMH set portal_771, DataCite repository FIGSHARE.VUW, 4,301 DOIs) — the university runs two repositories, one its own and one bought; Te Waharoa library discovery is an Ex Libris Primo/Alma deployment on tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz whose SRU 1.2 endpoint is anonymously callable and returns MARCXML; Nuku is an Instructure Canvas tenant; the research information system is Symplectic Elements; and browser sign-on for student services federates to a Microsoft Entra ID tenant. The data in those systems is the university's. The contracts are not, and none of them are saved here. A previous profile of this institution attributed Figshare's generic v2 REST API to it as though the university had written it; that contract and the sixteen artifacts derived from it have been removed. The institution also runs three public GitHub organisations, of which only VUW Research Computing — documenting the Rāpoi HPC cluster — is currently active, and it publishes a 12,160-URL machine-readable course sitemap covering every course-year page. The registrar surface, where student-built course APIs appear at peer institutions, is a self-hosted Ellucian Banner Self-Service behind SAML with no public interface at all.
Victoria University of Wellington publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Website Global Object, Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN), and Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace). Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, New Zealand, and Public Research University.
The Victoria University of Wellington catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Victoria University of Wellington’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, API reference, and 26 more developer resources.
3 APIs
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
aid: victoria-university-of-wellington
name: Victoria University of Wellington
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is a public research university in Wellington, Aotearoa New
Zealand, and it operates almost no programmable surface of its own. It publishes no developer portal, no API documentation,
no API keys, no status page and no changelog. What it has instead is what most universities have: a federation of vendor
platforms bought under its own name, and four surfaces it genuinely runs itself. The four are a self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7
institutional repository at ir.wgtn.ac.nz — no CNAME, its own address space, 23,150 records harvestable over its own keyless
OAI-PMH 2.0 base URL in twelve metadata formats, with an anonymously readable DSpace REST root, an OpenSearch 1.1 description
and FAIR Signposting link sets alongside it; an undocumented but public, keyless JSON configuration endpoint on its own
website (www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject, HTTP 200, CORS open to all origins); a self-hosted WSO2 Identity Server at auth-eis.vuw.ac.nz
that issues SAML for the student-records system and whose every discovery endpoint answers HTTP 403 behind a web application
firewall — live and protected, not missing; and a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider at idp.vuw.ac.nz, entityID https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth,
scope vuw.ac.nz, registered in the Tuakiri New Zealand Access Federation since 2012 with the REFEDS Research & Scholarship
entity category and a REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. The repository and the identity federation entry are the institution''s
most durable and most genuinely machine-readable assets, and both are classes of interface a university operates by definition
rather than by purchase. Everything else programmable that carries the university''s name is a tenancy: the Open Access
research repository is a SECOND, Figshare-hosted repository on the institution''s own openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz vanity domain
(OAI-PMH set portal_771, DataCite repository FIGSHARE.VUW, 4,301 DOIs) — the university runs two repositories, one its own
and one bought; Te Waharoa library discovery is an Ex Libris Primo/Alma deployment on tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz whose SRU
1.2 endpoint is anonymously callable and returns MARCXML; Nuku is an Instructure Canvas tenant; the research information
system is Symplectic Elements; and browser sign-on for student services federates to a Microsoft Entra ID tenant. The data
in those systems is the university''s. The contracts are not, and none of them are saved here. A previous profile of this
institution attributed Figshare''s generic v2 REST API to it as though the university had written it; that contract and
the sixteen artifacts derived from it have been removed. The institution also runs three public GitHub organisations, of
which only VUW Research Computing — documenting the Rāpoi HPC cluster — is currently active, and it publishes a 12,160-URL
machine-readable course sitemap covering every course-year page. The registrar surface, where student-built course APIs
appear at peer institutions, is a self-hosted Ellucian Banner Self-Service behind SAML with no public interface at all.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- probe
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: false
public: true
label: Free · no registration, no credential issued
confidence: high
source:
- probe
- plans
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/victoria-university-of-wellington.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- New Zealand
- Public Research University
- Research
- Open Access
- Research Repository
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Library
- Course Catalog
- Identity Federation
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-domains:
- wgtn.ac.nz
- vuw.ac.nz
- victoria.ac.nz
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'Four institution-operated surfaces were found, verified live and contracted; six tenant relationships were identified
and recorded without saving the vendors'' contracts; one vendor-attributed contract (Figshare v2 REST) and the sixteen
artifacts derived from it were removed. The largest institution-operated find is the self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7 institutional
repository at ir.wgtn.ac.nz, which a previous pass missed entirely: it answers OAI-PMH, DSpace REST, OpenSearch and FAIR
Signposting anonymously from the university''s own infrastructure. The profile is thin because the institution is thin,
not because the hunt stopped early. Course catalog, library discovery, research repository, open data, identity federation,
OAI-PMH, campus life and research computing were all probed, and the subdomain sweep that surfaced ir.wgtn.ac.nz also
cleared researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz (302 to Te Waharoa), ecs.wgtn.ac.nz and homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz (a Foswiki school site,
HTML only). No CKAN or Socrata open-data portal exists (data.wgtn.ac.nz does not resolve), no api.wgtn.ac.nz exists, no
RFC 9116 security.txt is published (/.well-known/security.txt returns 421), no llms.txt is published (404), and no public
generative-AI policy page was locatable — the site''s own search returns 403 to non-browser clients and robots.txt disallows
/search, so that absence is a limit on our reading rather than a confirmed institutional silence.'
evidence:
- url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/api/discover/search/objects
status: 200
- url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/api/core/items
status: 401
- url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/opensearch/service
status: 200
- url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/signposting/links/2c799dae-2a2d-4113-912e-91f8bbf9b46a
status: 200
- url: https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/
status: 302
- url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject
status: 200
- url: https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
status: 200
- url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=alma.all_for_ui=maori&maximumRecords=2
status: 200
- url: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=portal_771
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/figshare.vuw
status: 200
- url: https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/
status: 202
- url: https://nuku.wgtn.ac.nz/api/v1/courses
status: 401
- url: https://elements.wgtn.ac.nz/
status: 401
- url: https://vuw-research-computing.github.io/raapoi-docs/
status: 200
- url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/sitemap-courses.xml
status: 200
- url: https://data.wgtn.ac.nz/
status: 0
- url: https://api.wgtn.ac.nz/
status: 0
- url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/.well-known/security.txt
status: 421
- url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://auth-eis.vuw.ac.nz/scim2/ServiceProviderConfig
status: 403
- url: https://studentrecords.vuw.ac.nz/
status: 302
apis:
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:website-global-object
name: Website Global Object
x-operator: institution
description: 'A public, keyless JSON endpoint served by the university''s own website CMS at www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject.
It returns the global site object every page is built from: canonical base URLs including the roots of the course catalogue
and the study-area explorer, the brand logo asset manifest at every breakpoint, the primary, utility and footer navigation
trees, the apply call-to-action, the public and intranet search form contracts, and the institution''s public contact
numbers and email. Verified live on 2026-08-30: HTTP 200, Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*", Access-Control-Allow-Methods
"GET, HEAD, OPTIONS", Last-Modified 2024-04-10. It is undocumented and unversioned, and it returns a JSON body under a
text/html Content-Type. The OpenAPI below was derived by API Evangelist from the live response, not published by the university.'
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject
tags:
- Website
- JSON
- CMS
- Undocumented
- Institution-Operated
tags_raw:
- Website
- JSON
- CMS
- Undocumented
- Institution Operated
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/victoria-university-of-wellington-website-globalobject-openapi.yml
- type: x-openapi-original
url: openapi/_original/victoria-university-of-wellington-website-globalobject.yaml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/victoria-university-of-wellington-globalobject-schema.json
- type: x-example
url: examples/victoria-university-of-wellington-globalobject-example.json
- type: x-spectral-rules
url: rules/victoria-university-of-wellington-rules.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
url: vocabulary/victoria-university-of-wellington-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
url: json-ld/victoria-university-of-wellington-context.jsonld
- type: Website
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:identity-federation
name: Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN)
x-operator: institution
description: The university's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. entityID https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope
vuw.ac.nz, metadata served unauthenticated over HTTPS GET and republished in the signed Tuakiri (New Zealand Access Federation)
aggregate, where it has been registered since 2012-06-26 and from where it reaches eduGAIN. Carries the REFEDS Research
& Scholarship entity category and a REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. Advertises SAML2 HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and
SOAP/ECP single sign-on, HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect single logout, persistent and transient NameID formats, and an eduPerson/SCHAC/auEduPerson
attribute release including mail, schacHomeOrganization, schacHomeOrganizationType and auEduPersonSharedToken. This is
institution-operated by definition and is the university's strongest machine-readable asset.
humanURL: https://tuakiri.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Tuakiri
- eduGAIN
- Institution-Operated
tags_raw:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Tuakiri
- eduGAIN
- Institution Operated
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/victoria-university-of-wellington-identity-federation-openapi.yml
- type: x-openapi-original
url: openapi/_original/victoria-university-of-wellington-identity-federation.yaml
- type: x-example
url: examples/victoria-university-of-wellington-idp-saml-metadata.xml
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/victoria-university-of-wellington-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://tuakiri.ac.nz/
- type: x-federation-metadata
url: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:institutional-repository
name: Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace)
x-operator: institution
description: 'The university''s institutional repository, ir.wgtn.ac.nz, running DSpace 7.6.7 on the institution''s OWN
infrastructure: the host sits under its own registrable domain, carries no CNAME to any vendor, and resolves directly
to 130.195.21.54 inside the university''s address space, with library-systems@vuw.ac.nz as both the OAI-PMH adminEmail
and the OpenSearch contact. This is the surface class the university pipeline exists to find and it was missed by the
previous profile of this institution. It is anonymously callable and keyless across four machine-readable interfaces,
all verified live on 2026-08-30: an OAI-PMH 2.0 base URL at /oai/request carrying 23,150 records in twelve metadata formats
across sets that include ResearchArchive—Te Puna Rangahau, RestrictedArchive—Te Puna Rangahau, the Stout Literary Archive
and Exam Papers; a DSpace REST (HAL+JSON) root at /server/api whose communities, collections (18) and discovery-search
endpoints answer anonymously while /server/api/core/items returns HTTP 401; an OpenSearch 1.1 description with an Atom
result feed; and FAIR Signposting link sets exposing DataCite metadata, Handle cite-as and license relations per item.
Operator is `institution` rather than `tenant` because the university runs the deployment itself rather than buying it
as a hosted service — but DSpace''s interfaces are open-source and identical across every DSpace 7 installation, so the
saved contract describes ONLY the endpoints probed on this host and credits the university with operating them, never
with designing them.'
humanURL: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/
tags:
- Research Repository
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- OpenSearch
- Signposting
- Self-Hosted
- Institution-Operated
tags_raw:
- Research Repository
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- OpenSearch
- Signposting
- Self Hosted
- Institution Operated
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/victoria-university-of-wellington-institutional-repository-openapi.yml
- type: x-openapi-original
url: openapi/_original/victoria-university-of-wellington-institutional-repository.yaml
- type: x-example
url: examples/victoria-university-of-wellington-ir-oai-identify.xml
- type: x-example
url: examples/victoria-university-of-wellington-ir-dspace-root.json
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/victoria-university-of-wellington-conformance.yml
- type: x-oai-pmh
url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: x-opensearch
url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/opensearch/service
- type: Website
url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:open-access-repository-figshare
name: Open Access Repository (Figshare tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: The university's Open Access institutional repository is a Figshare portal running on the institution's own
vanity domain openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to figshare.com, with wellington.figshare.com as the platform address.
The repository, its records, its DOIs and its OAI-PMH set are the institution's; the interface is Figshare's and is shared
with every other Figshare customer. Harvestable via OAI-PMH 2.0 at Figshare's shared endpoint scoped to setSpec portal_771
(verified live 2026-08-30, returning VUW article identifiers). DOIs are minted under DataCite repository account FIGSHARE.VUW,
active since 2021-06-10, 4,301 DOIs registered. The vanity host answers a non-browser request with HTTP 202 and x-amzn-waf-action
"challenge" — a bot challenge, not an outage. FIGSHARE'S GENERIC v2 REST CONTRACT IS DELIBERATELY NOT SAVED IN THIS REPOSITORY;
it belongs to Figshare, and it was previously attributed here in error. The VUW Library did write its own httpd proxy
for this set — github.com/VUW-Library/figshare-oaipmh-proxy — which is genuine institutional engineering, but it is not
publicly deployed at a discoverable address.
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/special-collections/open-access-institutional-repository
baseURL: https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- DataCite
- Figshare
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/special-collections/open-access-institutional-repository
- type: x-oai-pmh
url: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=portal_771
- type: x-datacite-repository
url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/figshare.vuw
- type: x-vendor
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/figshare
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:te-waharoa-discovery
name: Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'Te Waharoa is the library''s discovery service, running on Ex Libris Primo backed by Alma on the institution''s
own subdomain tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to victoria.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Public discovery view VID 64VUW_INST:VUWNUI,
Alma institution code 64VUW_INST. It exposes a genuinely callable, keyless SRU 1.2 interface: an anonymous searchRetrieve
on 2026-08-30 returned HTTP 200 and 20,136 matching records in MARCXML, and the explain response enumerates the full Alma
index set. This is the largest anonymously callable interface associated with the institution — and the contract behind
it is Ex Libris''s product, identical for every Alma customer, so it is recorded as a tenancy and not saved here.'
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
baseURL: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- SRU
- MARCXML
- Primo
- Alma
- Ex Libris
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
- type: x-sru-explain
url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST?version=1.2&operation=explain
- type: Website
url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:nuku-canvas-lms
name: Nuku Learning Management (Instructure Canvas tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: Nuku is the university's brand for its learning-management system, an Instructure Canvas tenant at nuku.wgtn.ac.nz,
which CNAMEs to wgtn-vanity.instructure.com. The Canvas REST API is present and live at /api/v1 — an anonymous call returns
HTTP 401 {"status":"unauthenticated","errors":[{"message":"user authorisation required"}]} rather than a 404 — and requires
a Canvas OAuth2 token issued to a VUW account. Browser sign-on redirects to the university's Microsoft Entra ID tenant
via SAML. Canvas is an IMS LTI 1.3 platform, but that conformance is Instructure's, not the university's, and the contract
is not saved here.
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/teaching-support/teaching-with-technology
baseURL: https://nuku.wgtn.ac.nz/
tags:
- Learning Management
- Canvas
- Instructure
- LTI
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/teaching-support/teaching-with-technology
- type: x-api-base
url: https://nuku.wgtn.ac.nz/api/v1/accounts/self
- type: x-vendor
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/instructure
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:symplectic-elements
name: Research Information System (Symplectic Elements tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: The university's research information system is Symplectic Elements at elements.wgtn.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to
vuw.elements.symplectic.org. HTTP 401 to an anonymous request on 2026-08-30 — live, and gated behind institutional identity.
Named in the Rāpoi HPC documentation as the system researchers link cluster outputs into, which confirms it as the institution's
production research-output store. The Elements API exists under the university's Symplectic contract but is not publicly
readable, and the contract is Symplectic's.
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/research
baseURL: https://elements.wgtn.ac.nz/
tags:
- Research Information
- Symplectic
- Elements
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://vuw-research-computing.github.io/raapoi-docs/
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:enterprise-sso-wso2
name: Enterprise Single Sign-On (WSO2 Identity Server)
x-operator: institution
description: 'The university self-hosts a WSO2 Identity Server at auth-eis.vuw.ac.nz — no CNAME, resolving directly to 130.195.13.55
inside the institution''s own address space — and it is the SAML issuer that fronts the student records system. Discovered
on 2026-08-30 by following the sign-on redirect from studentrecords.vuw.ac.nz, which arrives at /samlsso with a signed
SAMLRequest and RelayState /c/auth/SSB, and returns a login page carrying WSO2''s Apache-2.0 copyright header. This is
the university''s third distinct identity surface and its second institution-operated one, separate from the Shibboleth
IdP used for research federation and from the Microsoft Entra ID tenant used for student-facing browser sign-on. Every
machine-readable endpoint WSO2 normally exposes — OIDC discovery, SAML2 metadata, SCIM 2.0 ServiceProviderConfig, the
SOAP admin services — returns HTTP 403 from a web application firewall that echoes a signature ID and the caller''s IP.
THAT IS A FINDING, NOT AN ABSENCE: the host is live and the endpoints are protected, so no conformance is claimed for
any of them.'
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/students/tools-and-help
baseURL: https://auth-eis.vuw.ac.nz/
tags:
- Identity
- Single Sign-On
- SAML
- WSO2
- Self-Hosted
- Institution-Operated
tags_raw:
- Identity
- Single Sign-On
- SAML
- WSO2
- Self Hosted
- Institution Operated
properties:
- type: x-authentication
url: authentication/victoria-university-of-wellington-authentication.yml
- type: Website
url: https://studentrecords.vuw.ac.nz/
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:student-records-banner
name: Student Records (Ellucian Banner Self-Service tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The registrar and student-records system at studentrecords.vuw.ac.nz. The sign-on RelayState /c/auth/SSB identifies
it as Ellucian Banner Self-Service, and the host resolves directly to 130.195.15.120 with no CNAME — self-hosted on the
university''s own infrastructure rather than in Ellucian''s cloud. Self-hosting does not make the contract the institution''s:
Banner''s interfaces are Ellucian''s product, identical across its customers, so this is recorded as a tenancy. No public
API, no anonymous read; every request redirects into the WSO2 SAML flow. This is the university''s registrar surface,
and it is the class where student-built course-data APIs appear at other institutions. None exists here — the public course
catalogue is delivered as HTML and a 12,160-URL sitemap, not as an interface.'
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/students/tools-and-help
baseURL: https://studentrecords.vuw.ac.nz/
tags:
- Student Information System
- Registrar
- Banner
- Ellucian
- Tenant
properties:
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:entra-id-federation
name: Microsoft Entra ID Tenant (production browser sign-on)
x-operator: tenant
description: Production browser single sign-on for the university's student-facing services federates to a Microsoft Entra
ID tenant, cfe63e23-6951-427e-8683-bb84dcf1d20c, observed on the Nuku learning-management redirect on 2026-08-30. Both
the OpenID Connect discovery document and the WS-Federation/SAML federationmetadata document return HTTP 200 anonymously,
so the tenant's endpoints, signing keys and supported flows are machine-readable. This is the university's identity in
practice, alongside the Shibboleth IdP it operates for research federation — but the platform, and therefore the contract,
is Microsoft's.
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/students/tools-and-help
baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/cfe63e23-6951-427e-8683-bb84dcf1d20c/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
tags:
- Identity Federation
- OpenID Connect
- SAML
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Tenant
properties:
- type: x-openid-configuration
url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/cfe63e23-6951-427e-8683-bb84dcf1d20c/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: x-federation-metadata
url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/cfe63e23-6951-427e-8683-bb84dcf1d20c/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
- type: x-vendor
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/microsoft
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/rss
- type: Support
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/contacts
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/site-info/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/site-info
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/victoria-university-of-wellington/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/victoriauniversity
name: Victoria University of Wellington — web UI toolkit and styles
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/VUW-Library
name: Wellington University Library — Figshare OAI-PMH proxy, LibGuides, DSpace
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://vuw-research-computing.github.io/raapoi-docs/
name: Rāpoi HPC cluster documentation
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/vuw-research-computing
name: VUW Research Computing — Rāpoi tools, metrics, ORCID harvesting
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses
name: Public course catalogue, versioned by academic year
- type: x-course-sitemap
url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/sitemap-courses.xml
name: Machine-readable index of 12,160 course-year pages
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/
name: Open Access institutional repository (Figshare tenancy)
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI
name: Te Waharoa discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth
name: SAML 2.0 IdP metadata, registered in Tuakiri
- type: x-authentication
url: authentication/victoria-university-of-wellington-authentication.yml
- type: x-scopes
url: scopes/victoria-university-of-wellington-scopes.yml
- type: x-errors
url: errors/victoria-university-of-wellington-errors.yml
- type: x-lifecycle
url: lifecycle/victoria-university-of-wellington-lifecycle.yml
- type: x-conformance
url: conformance/victoria-university-of-wellington-conformance.yml
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/
name: Institutional Repository — self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7 (institution-operated)
- type: x-oai-pmh
url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/oai/request?verb=Identify
name: Institution-operated OAI-PMH 2.0 base URL, 23,150 records
- type: x-opensearch
url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/opensearch/service
name: OpenSearch 1.1 description for the institutional repository
- type: APIReference
url: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/server/api
name: DSpace REST (HAL+JSON) root, anonymously readable
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/victoria-university-of-wellington-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/victoria-university-of-wellington-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/victoria-university-of-wellington-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/victoria-university-of-wellington-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
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