Emory University

---
aid: emory
name: Emory University
description: >-
  Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United
  States, ranked #196 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public
  developer and API footprint is modest and largely tied to the libraries and
  research-computing units rather than a central developer portal. The most
  visible programmatic surfaces are the Emory Libraries open-source GitHub
  organization (digital-repository software built on the Samvera/Hyrax stack),
  a public Digital Slide Archive REST API operated by Emory's biomedical
  imaging group, federated Shibboleth/SAML identity, and the Instructure
  Canvas LMS REST API exposed at the institution's Canvas instance. Most
  institutional systems (OPUS student information, Course Atlas) are gated,
  browser-based applications without documented public APIs.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/emory/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Libraries
  - United States
  - Atlanta
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: emory:digital-slide-archive
    name: Emory Digital Slide Archive REST API
    description: >-
      Public REST API for the Emory Digital Slide Archive (computablebrain),
      a Girder/HistomicsTK-based platform for digital pathology and
      whole-slide imaging. The API exposes documented resource endpoints for
      systems, items, files, folders and annotations, with a live Swagger
      interface at /api/v1.
    humanURL: https://computablebrain.emory.edu/api/v1
    baseURL: https://computablebrain.emory.edu/api/v1
    tags: [ Research, Imaging, Pathology, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://computablebrain.emory.edu/api/v1
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/emory-digital-slide-archive.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/emory-item-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/emory-item-structure.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/emory-get-item-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/emory-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/emory-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/emory-context.jsonld
  - aid: emory:canvas-lms
    name: Emory Canvas LMS REST API
    description: >-
      Emory's instance of the Instructure Canvas learning management system
      exposes the standard Canvas LMS REST API. Access requires an Emory
      Canvas account and developer keys / API access tokens; the reference
      documentation is mirrored at the institution's Canvas host.
    humanURL: https://canvas.emory.edu/doc/api/
    tags: [ Education, LMS, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://canvas.emory.edu/doc/api/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://canvas.emory.edu/doc/api/developer_keys.html
  - aid: emory:shibboleth
    name: Emory Identity (Shibboleth / SAML)
    description: >-
      Emory operates a federated Shibboleth identity provider for SAML-based
      single sign-on across institutional and partner services
      (InCommon federation). The IdP metadata endpoint is publicly reachable;
      authentication itself is gated to Emory credential holders.
    humanURL: https://login.emory.edu/
    baseURL: https://login.emory.edu/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SAML, Shibboleth, SSO ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://login.emory.edu/
  - aid: emory:libraries-github
    name: Emory Libraries Digital Repository Software
    description: >-
      Emory Libraries (Library Technology and Digital Strategies) maintains a
      large public open-source GitHub organization with ~120 repositories,
      including the dlp-curate preservation workbench, TheKeep archival
      curation app, dlp-lux discovery layer, and a Samvera/Hyrax fork. These
      Ruby on Rails / Hyrax applications underpin the OpenEmory and Digital
      Library Program repositories and their associated repository APIs.
    humanURL: https://github.com/emory-libraries
    tags: [ Libraries, Open Source, Digital Repository, Hyrax, Samvera ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://emory-libraries.github.io/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/emory-libraries
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.emory.edu/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://it.emory.edu/catalog/index.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/emory-libraries
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/emory-libraries/dlp-curate
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://login.emory.edu/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/emory-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/emory-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/emory-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/emory-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]