University of Chicago

aid: university-of-chicago
name: University of Chicago
description: >-
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago,
  Illinois, founded in 1890 and ranked #14 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public developer and API footprint is anchored in research data
  infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal: the Center for
  Translational Data Science (CTDS) maintains the open-source Gen3 data platform
  (uc-cdis on GitHub), which auto-generates FAIR APIs for accessing biomedical
  data commons. The University also publishes Shibboleth/OpenID Connect identity
  integrations for CNetID authentication, and the University of Chicago Library
  operates IIIF image and presentation endpoints plus a VuFind-based catalog. A
  faculty/staff-facing AI API portal (Azure OpenAI via API Management) exists but
  is gated and not publicly accessible.
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-chicago/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Source
- IIIF
- Identity
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-chicago:gen3
  name: Gen3 Data Commons APIs (CTDS)
  description: >-
    Open-source data platform maintained by the University of Chicago Center
    for Translational Data Science. Gen3 auto-generates FAIR APIs (data
    submission, GraphQL/Peregrine query, indexing/Indexd, Fence auth) for
    building and accessing biomedical data commons. Code is fully public under
    Apache 2.0 across the uc-cdis GitHub organization.
  humanURL: https://uc-cdis.github.io/gen3-user-doc/
  tags: [Research Data, Data Commons, FAIR, GraphQL, Open Source, Healthcare]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uc-cdis.github.io/gen3-user-doc/appendices/api-gen3/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uc-cdis
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-chicago-fence.yaml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-chicago-indexd.yaml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-chicago-sheepdog.yaml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-chicago-peregrine.yaml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-chicago-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-chicago-context.jsonld
  - url: graphql/university-of-chicago-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: university-of-chicago:cnetid-oidc
  name: CNetID OpenID Connect / Shibboleth Identity
  description: >-
    University of Chicago identity and authentication integrations published
    on the official uchicago GitHub organization, including Shibboleth
    Identity Provider extensions and OpenID Connect (OIDC) examples for
    authenticating CNetID-backed applications.
  humanURL: https://github.com/uchicago
  tags: [Identity, Authentication, OpenID Connect, Shibboleth, SSO]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/uchicago
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uchicago
- aid: university-of-chicago:library-iiif
  name: University of Chicago Library IIIF
  description: >-
    The University of Chicago Library exposes International Image
    Interoperability Framework (IIIF) image and presentation endpoints for its
    digital collections, with related code published in the uchicago-library
    GitHub organization.
  humanURL: https://github.com/uchicago-library/iiif
  baseURL: https://iiif-manifest.lib.uchicago.edu/
  tags: [IIIF, Library, Digital Collections, Images, Open Source]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/uchicago-library/iiif
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uchicago-library
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uchicago.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uchicago
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uchicago/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/UChicago
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/uc-cdis
- type: Authentication
  url: https://github.com/uchicago
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-chicago-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-chicago-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-chicago-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: [email protected]