University of Amsterdam

aid: university-of-amsterdam
name: University of Amsterdam
description: >-
  The University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam, UvA) is a public
  research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ranked #43 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is centered on
  the University Library's open-data program: a Linked Open Data platform
  (Triply) exposing digitized collections via REST, SPARQL, and GraphQL, plus
  OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoints for the central catalogue, archival
  collection descriptions, and the Figshare-backed research data repository.
  UvA does not publish a unified, key-issuing public developer portal; the
  confirmed machine-readable interfaces are library/open-data oriented and most
  institutional/SIS APIs are internal or gated.
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/university-of-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- Library
- Netherlands
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:lod-triply-api
  name: UvA Library Linked Open Data API (Triply)
  description: >-
    REST API over the University of Amsterdam Library's Linked Open Data
    datasets (books, catalogue, images, letters, maps, audio, video, music,
    archaeological objects, and more), served on the Triply platform. Backed
    by SPARQL, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and table-view query interfaces.
  humanURL: https://lod.uba.uva.nl/
  baseURL: https://api.lod.uba.uva.nl/datasets/UB-UVA/
  tags: [Open Data, Linked Data, Library, RDF, SPARQL, REST]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.triply.cc/triply-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-amsterdam-lod-triply-api.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-amsterdam-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-amsterdam-account-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/university-of-amsterdam-dataset-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-amsterdam-get-dataset-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-amsterdam-sparql-query-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/university-of-amsterdam-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-amsterdam-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/university-of-amsterdam-context.jsonld
  - url: graphql/university-of-amsterdam-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:oai-catalogue
  name: UvA Central Catalogue OAI-PMH
  description: >-
    OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Amsterdam
    central library catalogue, served via Ex Libris Alma.
  humanURL: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
  baseURL: https://uva.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/31UKB_UAM1_INST/request
  tags: [Open Data, Library, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Catalog]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:oai-archives
  name: UvA Archives Collection Descriptions OAI-PMH
  description: >-
    OAI-PMH endpoint exposing archival collection descriptions (EAD) from the
    University of Amsterdam Library archives.
  humanURL: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
  baseURL: https://archives.uba.uva.nl/oai
  tags: [Open Data, Library, Archives, OAI-PMH, Metadata]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
- aid: university-of-amsterdam:oai-figshare-repository
  name: UvA Research Data Repository OAI-PMH (Figshare)
  description: >-
    OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint for the University of Amsterdam research data
    repository hosted on Figshare, providing dataset metadata for the UvA
    portal.
  humanURL: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags: [Open Data, Research Data, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/data-sets-and-publication-channels/data-sets-and-publication-channels.html
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uva.nl/en
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://uba.uva.nl/en/support/open-data/open-data.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uva
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-amsterdam/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-amsterdam-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-amsterdam-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-amsterdam-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: [email protected]