University of Helsinki

aid: university-of-helsinki
name: University of Helsinki
description: >-
  The University of Helsinki is Finland's oldest and largest multidisciplinary
  research university, founded in 1640, and is ranked #68 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint centers on
  open scholarly infrastructure: Helda, the university's institutional
  repository, runs on DSpace 7 and exposes both a public REST API and an
  OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface. The university also maintains official
  GitHub organizations for its IT, computer science, student services, and
  language technology groups. Student-facing academic data flows through the
  Funidata Sisu student information system (Kori GraphQL/REST APIs), which is
  used institutionally but is not publicly documented or self-service.
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-helsinki/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Finland
- Research
- Open Data
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-helsinki:helda-rest
  name: Helda DSpace REST API
  description: >-
    Public REST API for Helda, the open institutional repository of the
    University of Helsinki, powered by DSpace 7.6.2. Provides programmatic
    access to research publications, dissertations, theses, and other
    scholarly material, including discovery/search, items, collections, and
    communities. The repository root advertises DSpace HAL links at
    /server/api.
  humanURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/
  baseURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
  tags: [Repository, DSpace, Research, Open Access, Scholarly]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
- aid: university-of-helsinki:helda-oai
  name: Helda OAI-PMH Metadata Interface
  description: >-
    OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint for Helda, enabling third parties to
    harvest Dublin Core and other metadata formats describing the
    university's open-access publications. Confirmed live, returning a valid
    OAI-PMH Identify response with repository name "Helda".
  humanURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/
  baseURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/oai/request
  tags: [OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Repository, Open Access]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-helsinki:sisu-kori
  name: Sisu (Kori) Student Information System API
  description: >-
    The University of Helsinki runs the Funidata Sisu student information
    system for academic administration (study plans, course registration,
    curricula, organizations). Sisu exposes GraphQL and REST APIs via its
    Kori component for data integration. These interfaces are used
    institutionally and partner-integration only; there is no public,
    self-service developer portal or documentation for the University of
    Helsinki tenant. Listed here for completeness as a gated API.
  humanURL: https://www.funidata.fi/en/services/sisu
  tags: [Student Information System, Sisu, GraphQL, Gated, Academic]
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.funidata.fi/en/services/sisu
  - url: graphql/university-of-helsinki-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.helsinki.fi/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UniversityofHelsinki
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-helsinki/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-helsinki-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-helsinki-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-helsinki-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: [email protected]