University of Canterbury

---
aid: university-of-canterbury
name: University of Canterbury
description: >-
  University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha) is a public research
  university in Christchurch, New Zealand, ranked #261 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-accessible developer footprint is centered
  on scholarly and research infrastructure rather than a unified developer
  portal: the UC Research Repository (a DSpace 7 platform) exposes a live
  OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface and a DSpace REST API, the
  institutional Canterbury Figshare instance is reachable through figshare's
  public REST and OAI-PMH endpoints, and the College of Engineering runs a
  self-hosted GitLab. No consolidated, publicly documented university-wide API
  program was confirmed; entries below reflect only endpoints verified live.
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-canterbury/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-canterbury:research-repository-oai
    name: UC Research Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the UC Research Repository,
      a DSpace 7 institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research
      outputs. Verified live (HTTP 200) returning a valid Identify response with
      repositoryName "UC Research Repository" and base URL
      https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request.
    humanURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
    baseURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Research, Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Metadata, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-canterbury:research-repository-rest
    name: UC Research Repository DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      DSpace 7 REST API backing the UC Research Repository, providing
      programmatic access to communities, collections and items. The API root
      (https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api) is part of the standard DSpace 7
      platform; it returned HTTP 403 to unauthenticated probes during review, so
      access conditions were not fully confirmed.
    humanURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
    baseURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api
    tags: [ Research, Repository, DSpace, REST, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
  - aid: university-of-canterbury:figshare-api
    name: Canterbury Figshare (figshare REST and OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      Canterbury's institutional Figshare instance provides an open-access
      research data and outputs platform. Figshare exposes a public REST API
      (api.figshare.com/v2, verified HTTP 200) and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint
      (verified HTTP 200) that can surface institutional records. The Canterbury
      portal itself sits behind Cloudflare (HTTP 202 challenge to automated
      probes).
    humanURL: https://canterbury.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research, Data, Figshare, REST, OAI-PMH, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://canterbury.figshare.com/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-canterbury-figshare-api.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-canterbury-article-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-canterbury-collection-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/university-of-canterbury-article-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/university-of-canterbury-collection-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/university-of-canterbury-list-articles-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/university-of-canterbury-search-articles-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/university-of-canterbury-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-canterbury-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/university-of-canterbury-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-canterbury:eng-git-gitlab
    name: UC Engineering GitLab API
    description: >-
      Self-hosted GitLab instance operated by the University of Canterbury
      College of Engineering. The web application is reachable (HTTP 200) and the
      GitLab REST API v4 is present (HTTP 401 to unauthenticated calls,
      indicating an authentication-gated GitLab API rather than a public one).
    humanURL: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/
    baseURL: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/api/v4
    tags: [ GitLab, Source Code, Engineering, REST, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/api/v4/version
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uccser
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-canterbury/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://eng-git.canterbury.ac.nz/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-canterbury-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-canterbury-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-canterbury-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]