University of Calgary

---
aid: university-of-calgary
name: University of Calgary
description: >-
  The University of Calgary is a public research university in Calgary, Alberta,
  Canada, ranked #198 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public,
  documented developer footprint centers on research and scholarly
  infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal: the Space Remote
  Sensing (SRS) group operates a documented RESTful API at api.phys.ucalgary.ca
  and the related AuroraX auroral-science API at api.aurorax.space, with Python
  and IDL client libraries. The institutional repository PRISM runs on DSpace 8.3
  (REST API plus OAI-PMH) and the PRISM research-data repository is hosted on the
  Borealis Dataverse platform, which exposes a public Dataverse REST API. The
  university also maintains a GitHub organization and a library guide cataloging
  third-party scholarly 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/university-of-calgary/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - Space Physics
  - Canada
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-calgary:srs-api
    name: UCalgary Space Remote Sensing API
    description: >-
      RESTful API from the University of Calgary Space Remote Sensing group for
      accessing space physics and remote-sensing data (all-sky imagers,
      riometers, and related instruments). Usable directly over HTTP or via the
      pyucalgarysrs / pyucrio Python and IDL client libraries. Interactive
      Swagger documentation is served at the API root.
    humanURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
    baseURL: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
    tags: [ Space Physics, Remote Sensing, Open Data, Research, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.phys.ucalgary.ca/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.phys.ucalgary.ca/working_with_data/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-calgary-srs-api.yaml
  - aid: university-of-calgary:aurorax-api
    name: AuroraX API
    description: >-
      Public RESTful API for the AuroraX auroral-science data platform,
      developed and operated with the University of Calgary. Provides search and
      access to auroral metadata, ephemeris, and imagery data. An API key is only
      required for write operations; read access is open. Python (PyAuroraX) and
      IDL client libraries are available.
    humanURL: https://docs.aurorax.space/
    baseURL: https://api.aurorax.space/
    tags: [ Space Physics, Aurora, Open Data, Research, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.aurorax.space/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.aurorax.space/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/aurorax-space
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-calgary-aurorax-api.yaml
  - aid: university-of-calgary:prism-dspace
    name: PRISM Institutional Repository (DSpace)
    description: >-
      PRISM is the University of Calgary's institutional repository, running on
      DSpace 8.3 (now served from ucalgary.scholaris.ca). It exposes the standard
      DSpace REST API for programmatic access to communities, collections, and
      items, plus an OAI-PMH endpoint for metadata harvesting.
    humanURL: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/
    baseURL: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, Scholarly, Open Access, OAI-PMH, DSpace ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-calgary:prism-dataverse
    name: PRISM Research Data Repository (Borealis Dataverse)
    description: >-
      The University of Calgary's PRISM research-data repository is a Dataverse
      collection hosted on the Borealis (Canadian Dataverse) platform, exposing
      the public Dataverse REST API (Borealis runs Dataverse v6.8.1) for
      searching and retrieving dataset and file metadata.
    humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/calgary
    baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Open Data, Dataverse, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/calgary
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ucalgary.ca/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ucalgary
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/ucalgary/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/apis
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-calgary-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-calgary-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-calgary-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-calgary-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-calgary-rules.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-calgary-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]