University of Bologna

---
aid: university-of-bologna
name: University of Bologna
description: >-
  The University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna) is the
  oldest university in the Western world and a leading Italian research institution,
  ranked #133 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API
  footprint centers on open data and open scholarship rather than a unified developer
  portal: a CKAN-based open data portal at dati.unibo.it exposes a standard CKAN Action
  API over institutional datasets, and the AlmaDL AMS Acta institutional repository
  (EPrints) exposes an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface. The university also
  maintains an official open-source GitHub organization. Most administrative, course,
  and identity systems require institutional credentials and are not openly documented.
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-bologna/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Open Data
  - Research
  - Italy
  - Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-bologna:opendata-ckan
    name: University of Bologna Open Data (CKAN API)
    description: >-
      Open data portal for the University of Bologna built on CKAN, exposing the
      standard CKAN Action API over institutional datasets (course catalog,
      curricula, financial and social reports, organizational data). Returns JSON
      and was confirmed live returning success:true with ~33 datasets.
    humanURL: https://dati.unibo.it/
    baseURL: https://dati.unibo.it/api/3/action/
    tags: [ Open Data, CKAN, Datasets, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
  - aid: university-of-bologna:amsacta-oai-pmh
    name: AMS Acta Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      AMS Acta is the AlmaDL institutional repository of the University of Bologna,
      running on EPrints 3.4.x. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting
      interface (Dublin Core), confirmed live via an Identify response. Metadata is
      CC0-licensed and items carry persistent DOIs.
    humanURL: https://amsacta.unibo.it/
    baseURL: https://amsacta.unibo.it/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Repository, EPrints, Research, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://amsacta.unibo.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.unibo.it/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/unibo
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/unibo/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://dati.unibo.it/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-bologna-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-bologna-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-bologna-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]