Newcastle University

---
aid: newcastle
name: Newcastle University
description: >-
  Newcastle University is a public research university in Newcastle upon Tyne,
  United Kingdom, ranked #129 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its
  public developer and API footprint centers on research and open-data
  initiatives rather than a single central developer portal. Confirmed public
  APIs include the Newcastle Urban Observatory REST API (one of the UK's largest
  open urban-sensing platforms, with an OpenAPI specification), the Digitised
  Objects Repository Search and Data API, and the ECPPEC electoral history
  research API. The university also operates a verified GitHub organization and
  a Figshare-powered research data repository (data.ncl), and runs EPrints-based
  institutional and thesis repositories that expose OAI-PMH.
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/newcastle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - United Kingdom
  - Open Data
  - Research Data
  - Smart Cities
  - Digital Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: newcastle:urban-observatory
    name: Newcastle Urban Observatory API
    description: >-
      REST API providing programmatic access to urban-sensing data from the
      Urban Sciences Building and data sources across Newcastle. Exposes
      entities, feeds and timeseries (temperature, occupancy, energy and
      environmental readings) in JSON and CSV, with an OpenAPI specification.
    humanURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/api/v2.0a
    tags: [ Open Data, Smart Cities, Sensors, IoT, Environment ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://api.usb.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/openapi.json
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/newcastle-urban-observatory.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/newcastle-entity-schema.json
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/newcastle-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/newcastle-rules.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/newcastle-context.jsonld
      - type: Website
        url: https://urbanobservatory.ac.uk/
  - aid: newcastle:digitised-objects
    name: Digitised Objects Repository Search and Data API
    description: >-
      Search and Data API for Newcastle University's Digitised Objects
      Repository, providing programmatic access to metadata and digitised
      materials from the university's collections.
    humanURL: https://api-dor.ncl.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Digital Library, Collections, Cultural Heritage, Search ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api-dor.ncl.ac.uk/
  - aid: newcastle:ecppec
    name: ECPPEC Electoral Data API
    description: >-
      API for the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral
      Culture (ECPPEC) research project, providing access to historical British
      electoral datasets including pollbook records and election directory data.
    humanURL: https://ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/api/
    tags: [ Research Data, History, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/api/
  - aid: newcastle:data-ncl
    name: data.ncl Research Data Repository (Figshare)
    description: >-
      Newcastle University's institutional research data repository, powered by
      Figshare, for documenting, archiving and publishing datasets and code.
      Programmatic access is available through the underlying Figshare API.
    humanURL: https://data.ncl.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Research Data, Open Data, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/academics-and-researchers/lrs/rdm/sharing/datancl/
      - type: Website
        url: https://data.ncl.ac.uk/
  - aid: newcastle:eprints
    name: EPrints Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      Newcastle University's EPrints-based repositories (institutional outputs at
      eprints.ncl.ac.uk and electronic theses at theses.ncl.ac.uk) expose
      metadata harvesting via the standard EPrints OAI-PMH interface.
    humanURL: https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Research Outputs, Theses ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/
      - type: Website
        url: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/newcastleuniversity
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/newcastle-university
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/UniofNewcastle
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/newcastle-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/newcastle-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/newcastle-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]