Waseda University

aid: waseda
name: Waseda University
x-type: university
x-category: Private Research University
description: 'Waseda University is a large private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo, founded in 1882 and one of Japan''s
  two best-known private institutions. It operates no developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI, and has no official GitHub organization
  — but it is not the empty profile that description usually implies, because three genuinely institution-operated machine-readable
  surfaces sit under its own domains and answer anonymous calls. Waseda runs its own IIIF server at iiif.archive.waseda.jp,
  serving IIIF Presentation 2.1 manifests and IIIF Image API 2.0 level-1 endpoints for the Kotenseki Sogo Database of classical
  Japanese books and the Waseda Cultural Resources Database — a real, callable cultural-heritage API on Waseda''s engineering.
  It runs its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at iaidp.ia.waseda.jp, whose entityID is registered in the GakuNin
  federation operated by NII and propagated onward to eduGAIN. And Waseda Moodle at wsdmoodle.waseda.jp is a live LTI 1.3
  / LTI Advantage platform publishing a JWKS keyset, an OAuth 2.0 client-credentials token endpoint and an LTI services endpoint,
  alongside a token-gated Moodle Web Services REST endpoint. Its other apparent APIs are not its own: the Waseda University
  Repository''s OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint is real and its content is Waseda''s, but it runs on NII''s JAIRO Cloud, and the WINE
  library discovery service is an Ex Libris Primo tenancy whose Primo and Alma SRU interfaces are not enabled for public use.
  Waseda is registered in ROR (00ntfnx83) and holds Crossref Open Funder Registry ID 501100004423, but is not a Crossref depositing
  member and holds no DataCite account.'
type: Index
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: partial
  label: Free and anonymous for IIIF and repository harvesting; campus systems are credentialed
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Producing
access: 1st-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/waseda.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/waseda/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Japan
- Asia
- Private Research University
- Research
- Library
- Open Access
- Cultural Heritage
- Digital Archives
- IIIF
- Identity Federation
- Learning Management
- Research Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Waseda was fully reachable and the re-profile found more institution-operated surface than the June 2026 pass did,
    not less. Three Waseda-operated machine-readable surfaces were verified by anonymous probe: the IIIF Image and Presentation
    servers at iiif.archive.waseda.jp (200, application/ld+json and application/json), the Shibboleth SAML 2.0 IdP metadata
    at iaidp.ia.waseda.jp (200, application/xml, entityID confirmed present in the GakuNin federation aggregate), and the
    Waseda Moodle LTI 1.3 platform at wsdmoodle.waseda.jp (JWKS 200, token endpoint 400 invalid_request, services endpoint
    405, Web Services REST 200 with an invalidtoken fault body). The IIIF surface and the LTI platform are both new to this
    profile. Two vendor tenancies are recorded as relationships with x-operator tenant and no vendor contract was saved under
    Waseda''s name: the repository OAI-PMH endpoint on NII''s JAIRO Cloud and the WINE discovery service on Ex Libris Primo,
    whose Alma SRU is not enabled (404 SERVICE_NOT_FOUND on both plausible institution codes). Two registry memberships are
    recorded and evidenced, ROR and the Crossref Open Funder Registry; DataCite returned meta.total 0 and is recorded as absent
    rather than assumed. Two limits are worth stating. www.waseda.jp answers /robots.txt, /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt
    with a 403 WAF page rather than a 404, so those are unreadable rather than confirmed absent. And Waseda has no official
    GitHub organization — github.com/wasedatime is an unaffiliated student project whose backend api.wasedatime.com returns
    403 with no public documentation and no evidence of institutional endorsement, so it is not credited here and the stale
    GitHub pointer that claimed it was removed.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://iiif.archive.waseda.jp/iiif/manifest/ktnsk/ho04_02555/manifest.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://iiif.archive.waseda.jp/iiif/image/ktnsk/ho04_02555/ho04_02555_a001/info.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://iaidp.ia.waseda.jp/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/mod/lti/certs.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/mod/lti/token.php
    status: 400
  - url: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/mod/lti/services.php
    status: 405
  - url: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/webservice/rest/server.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://api-ap.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/view/sru/81SOKEI_INST?version=1.2&operation=explain
    status: 404
  - url: https://waseda.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=81SOKEI_WUNI:WINE
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/00ntfnx83
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/funders/501100004423
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=Waseda
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.wasedatime.com
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.waseda.jp/robots.txt
    status: 403
apis:
- aid: waseda:iiif-presentation
  name: Waseda IIIF Presentation API (Cultural Resources)
  x-operator: institution
  description: Waseda University operates its own IIIF server for the Kotenseki Sogo Database (古典籍総合データベース) of classical Japanese
    books and the Waseda Cultural Resources Database (文化資源データベース). It serves IIIF Presentation API 2.1 manifests as application/json
    — sc:Manifest documents carrying label, metadata, attribution "早稲田大学図書館 (Waseda University Library)", a license pointer
    to Waseda's own image-use terms, and a sequence of sc:Canvas each wired to the Image API service. Anonymous, no credential,
    no rate-limit signal advertised. This is the clearest piece of Waseda-authored machine-readable infrastructure in the
    profile.
  humanURL: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
  baseURL: https://iiif.archive.waseda.jp/iiif/manifest
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Cultural Heritage
  - Digital Archives
  - Library
  - Metadata
  - JSON-LD
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.waseda.jp/library/user/using-images/
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
- aid: waseda:iiif-image
  name: Waseda IIIF Image API
  x-operator: institution
  description: The image-tile half of the same Waseda-operated IIIF deployment. info.json declares protocol http://iiif.io/api/image
    at Image API 2.0 compliance level 1, 256x256 tiles with scale factors to 512, five precomputed sizes, jpg format and native/color/gray
    qualities. Requests follow the standard IIIF path template /iiif/image/{collection}/{item}/{image}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{format}.
    Served as application/ld+json, anonymous.
  humanURL: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
  baseURL: https://iiif.archive.waseda.jp/iiif/image
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Images
  - Cultural Heritage
  - Digital Archives
  - JSON-LD
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://iiif.io/api/image/2.0/
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
- aid: waseda:shibboleth-idp
  name: Waseda Identity Provider (Shibboleth SAML 2.0)
  x-operator: institution
  description: Waseda operates its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider. The metadata document is served anonymously
    as application/xml and declares entityID https://iaidp.ia.waseda.jp/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope waseda.jp, SAML2 Redirect
    / POST / POST-SimpleSign SSO and SLO endpoints, and SAML1/SAML2 SOAP ArtifactResolution and AttributeQuery on port 8443.
    This is machine-readable institution-operated identity infrastructure, not a public API — a relying party reaches it by
    registering a Service Provider in the federation, not by obtaining a key.
  humanURL: https://support.waseda.jp/it/s/
  baseURL: https://iaidp.ia.waseda.jp/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Authentication
  - Federation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.waseda.jp/it/s/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/waseda-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/waseda-conformance.yml
- aid: waseda:gakunin-federation
  name: GakuNin Academic Access Federation membership
  x-operator: federation
  description: Waseda's identity provider is registered in GakuNin (学術認証フェデレーション), the Japanese academic identity federation
    operated by the National Institute of Informatics, and reaches eduGAIN through it. The entityID https://iaidp.ia.waseda.jp/idp/shibboleth
    was confirmed present in the GakuNin operational metadata aggregate on 2026-09-01, carrying OrganizationDisplayName "Waseda
    University". A federation is shared by definition and the aggregate is NII's; the IdP inside it is Waseda's. Recorded
    as a membership, never as a Waseda contract.
  humanURL: https://www.gakunin.jp/participants
  baseURL: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - GakuNin
  - eduGAIN
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - NII
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.gakunin.jp/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/waseda-conformance.yml
- aid: waseda:moodle-lti
  name: Waseda Moodle — LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage platform
  x-operator: institution
  description: Waseda Moodle runs on Waseda's own host and is a live LTI 1.3 learning-tools-interoperability platform. It
    publishes a JWKS keyset anonymously (one RSA/RS256 key, kid ea841dc4e7af7463cc4c), an OIDC third-party-initiated login
    endpoint, an OAuth 2.0 client-credentials token endpoint that returns a correctly shaped invalid_request error to an empty
    call, and an LTI Advantage services endpoint that rejects GET with a structured 405. Tool registration is administrative;
    there is no self-service developer path. The LTI implementation is Moodle's engineering — what is Waseda's is the deployment,
    the host and the signing key.
  humanURL: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/
  baseURL: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/mod/lti
  tags:
  - LTI
  - Learning Management
  - Moodle
  - OAuth2
  - JWKS
  - Education Technology
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/waseda-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/waseda-conformance.yml
  - type: Specification
    url: https://www.imsglobal.org/spec/lti/v1p3
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
- aid: waseda:moodle-webservices
  name: Waseda Moodle Web Services (REST)
  x-operator: institution
  description: The Moodle Web Services REST endpoint is deployed on Waseda's own host and answers an anonymous call with Moodle's
    structured invalidtoken fault. Access requires a per-user token issued by a Waseda Moodle administrator; there is no public
    issuance path and no published function list. Note that the endpoint returns HTTP 200 with the fault in the body, so a
    status-code-only check will misread it as an open API.
  humanURL: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/
  baseURL: https://wsdmoodle.waseda.jp/webservice/rest/server.php
  tags:
  - Moodle
  - Learning Management
  - REST
  - Education Technology
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/waseda-authentication.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
- aid: waseda:repository-oai
  name: Waseda University Repository (OAI-PMH)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for the Waseda University Repository. The collection, the administrative contact
    (repository@list.waseda.jp) and the identity are Waseda's; the host and the WEKO3 software are NII's JAIRO Cloud, so the
    operator is tenant and no contract is saved under Waseda's name. Identify confirms protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp
    2016-07-05, deletedRecord transient, granularity to the second. Seven metadata formats are served — jpcoar_2.0, jpcoar_1.0,
    jpcoar, jpcoar_v1, oai_dc, ddi and lom — a configured JPCOAR deployment. The endpoint answers a plain client with 200
    and a desktop-browser User-Agent with 406; that is a content-negotiation quirk on NII's nginx, not an outage.
  humanURL: https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - JPCOAR
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/waseda-conformance.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
- aid: waseda:wine-primo
  name: WINE Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Waseda University Library''s discovery service, WINE, is an Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy under institution code
    81SOKEI_WUNI. The discovery UI is live and is Waseda''s service, but it is Ex Libris''s engineering and Ex Libris''s contract.
    The Primo Search REST and Alma SRU interfaces that exist as platform capabilities are not enabled for public use here:
    SRU explain requests against both plausible institution codes return 404 SERVICE_NOT_FOUND. Recorded as a tenancy relationship
    only; no Ex Libris contract is saved under Waseda.'
  humanURL: https://waseda.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=81SOKEI_WUNI:WINE
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Ex Libris
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - ExLibris
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://waseda-jp.libguides.com/winehelp_en
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/waseda-authentication.yml
- aid: waseda:ror-registration
  name: ROR registration (Research Organization Registry)
  x-operator: registry
  description: Waseda University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/00ntfnx83 — established
    1882, types education and funder, with external identifiers GRID grid.5290.e, ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9975, Wikidata Q274486
    and Crossref Funder ID 501100004423. A registry membership is a fact about the institution, machine-readable through the
    registry's own API. The registry's contract belongs to ROR, not to Waseda.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/00ntfnx83
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/00ntfnx83
  tags:
  - Registry
  - ROR
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
- aid: waseda:crossref-funder
  name: Crossref Open Funder Registry membership
  x-operator: registry
  description: Waseda University holds Crossref Open Funder Registry ID 501100004423, located in Japan, with 1,458 works attributed
    and two descendant funder identifiers (501100006539, 501100018983). Waseda is in the Funder Registry only — a Crossref
    members query for "waseda" returns zero results, so Waseda is not a Crossref DOI-depositing member. Both facts are recorded
    so neither is over-read.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/funders/501100004423
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Crossref
  - Funder Registry
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/wasedauniversity/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.waseda.jp/it/s/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://iaidp.ia.waseda.jp/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://waseda.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=81SOKEI_WUNI:WINE
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.wsl.waseda.jp/syllabus/JAA101.php
- type: OpenData
  url: https://archive.waseda.jp/archive/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.waseda.jp/top/news/89507?lng=en
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.waseda.jp/library/user/using-images/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/waseda-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/waseda-conformance.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/waseda-examples.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/waseda-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/waseda-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/waseda-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/waseda-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com