Victoria University of Wellington

aid: victoria-university-of-wellington
name: Victoria University of Wellington
description: 'Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is a public research university in Wellington, New Zealand,
  ranked #244 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a centralized, publicly documented developer portal;
  instead its public, machine-readable footprint is found in standards-based scholarly and library infrastructure. Confirmed
  public interfaces include a Figshare-powered Open Access research repository exposing an OAI-PMH metadata feed and the Figshare
  v2 REST API, and an Ex Libris Primo (Te Waharoa) discovery service backed by Alma. The university also maintains public
  GitHub organizations for its web UI toolkit and library engineering work.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Library
- New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:open-access-oai-pmh
  name: Open Access Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting feed for the Open Access Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington research
    repository, hosted on Figshare. The university's records are exposed via the Figshare OAI-PMH endpoint scoped to set portal_771,
    supporting Dublin Core and other metadata prefixes. Verified live returning VUW article identifiers.
  humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/special-collections/open-access-institutional-repository
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - Research
  - Figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://info.figshare.com/user-guide/how-to-use-figshares-oai-pmh-service/
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:figshare-rest
  name: Figshare REST API (Open Access Repository)
  description: The Open Access Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington repository is powered by Figshare, whose
    public v2 REST API exposes articles, collections, and project metadata. University outputs are discoverable through the
    shared Figshare API surface; the documented, public endpoint is operated by Figshare on the university's behalf.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - REST
  - Repository
  - Research
  - Figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/victoria-university-of-wellington-figshare-rest.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/victoria-university-of-wellington-article-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/victoria-university-of-wellington-article-structure.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
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:primo-discovery
  name: Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Primo / Alma)
  description: The university library's discovery service, branded Te Waharoa, runs on Ex Libris Primo backed by Alma resource
    management. The public discovery view uses VID 64VUW_INST:VUWNUI. Primo provides programmatic search and delivery interfaces;
    the public-facing search UI is verified live.
  humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
  baseURL: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Ex Libris
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
- aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:web-globalobject
  name: Website Global Object Endpoint
  description: An undocumented JSON configuration endpoint served by the university's main website that returns global site
    object data such as base URLs, logo, and navigation roots. Not a published developer API, but a confirmed-live public
    JSON endpoint observed on the wgtn.ac.nz CMS.
  humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject
  tags:
  - Website
  - JSON
  - CMS
  - Undocumented
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/victoriauniversity
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/VUW-Library
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/victoria-university-of-wellington/
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com