Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

---
aid: iit-kanpur
name: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
description: >-
  The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), founded in 1959 and
  located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is one of India's premier engineering and
  research institutions, ranked #263 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It
  does not operate a unified central developer portal; its verifiable public
  programmatic footprint centers on the P.K. Kelkar (PKK) Library, whose Koha
  integrated library system exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting
  endpoint and a Koha ILS-DI service. Administrative and academic systems such as
  the Pingala ERP/SIS are login-gated with no documented public API, and there is
  no single official institutional GitHub organization, though numerous student
  clubs and academic departments maintain their own GitHub orgs.
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/iit-kanpur/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - India
  - Open Access
  - Library
  - Metadata
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
# 2026-06-03: Discovered a live Koha 23.11 REST API (Swagger 2.0) served at
# https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/api/v1/ for the PKK Library; converted to OpenAPI 3.0
# and added supporting artifacts (json-schema, json-structure, examples, rules,
# vocabulary, json-ld). See openapi/iit-kanpur-library-rest.yaml.
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: iit-kanpur:library-oai-pmh
    name: PKK Library OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      The P.K. Kelkar Library runs a Koha integrated library system that exposes
      an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface over its bibliographic
      catalogue. The Identify verb returns a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 response naming the
      repository "PKK Library" with an earliest datestamp of 2016, and
      ListMetadataFormats confirms the oai_dc metadata prefix, verifying a live
      open-metadata harvesting endpoint.
    humanURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/
    baseURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl
    tags: [ Library, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, Catalogue, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
  - aid: iit-kanpur:library-ils-di
    name: PKK Library Koha ILS-DI
    description: >-
      The P.K. Kelkar Library Koha catalogue exposes the ILS-DI (Integrated
      Library System - Discovery Interface) service, a standard Koha web service
      for discovery-layer integrations covering bibliographic, holdings, patron,
      and circulation operations. The ILS-DI landing page resolves live and
      identifies the underlying Koha 23.11 installation.
    humanURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl
    baseURL: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl
    tags: [ Library, ILS-DI, Koha, Discovery, Catalogue ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://libserv.iitk.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/iit-kanpur-library-rest.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/iit-kanpur-item-schema.json
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/iit-kanpur-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/iit-kanpur-context.jsonld
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.iitk.ac.in/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/iit-kanpur-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/iit-kanpur-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/iit-kanpur-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]