University of Melbourne

---
aid: university-of-melbourne
name: University of Melbourne
description: >-
  The University of Melbourne is Australia's leading research university,
  ranked #24 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer
  and API footprint is modest and federated rather than centralized: the
  Library operates the Minerva Access institutional repository on DSpace 7.6,
  which exposes a public OAI-PMH metadata interface and a DSpace REST API,
  and the institution publishes campus GIS data through an ArcGIS Hub open
  spatial-data portal with the standard ArcGIS/Hub query APIs. Internally the
  university runs a Boomi-based API management developer portal for staff and
  students, but that portal is gated and not publicly documented. Identity is
  managed via central SSO (Okta) with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect, but no
  public API program is offered there. An official GitHub organization
  (github.com/unimelb) exists with mostly archived projects.
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-melbourne/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Australia
  - Open Data
  - Research
  - Library
  - Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-melbourne:minerva-oai
    name: Minerva Access OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      Public OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for Minerva Access, the
      University of Melbourne Library Digital Repository (DSpace 7.6). Supports
      standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, etc.) for
      harvesting metadata on journal articles, theses, conference papers,
      reports, books and datasets. Verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Library, Metadata, Open Data, DSpace ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
  - aid: university-of-melbourne:minerva-rest
    name: Minerva Access DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      DSpace 7.6 REST/HAL API backing the Minerva Access institutional
      repository, exposing communities, collections, items and bitstreams as
      HAL+JSON resources. The API root is publicly reachable and self-describes
      its endpoints. Verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, REST, Library, DSpace, Open Data, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
  - aid: university-of-melbourne:spatial-open-data
    name: Open Spatial Data Portal (ArcGIS Hub)
    description: >-
      University of Melbourne open spatial-data portal hosted on ArcGIS Hub for
      exploring and downloading campus GIS layers including building, road and
      tree-canopy footprints. Datasets are served through the standard ArcGIS
      Hub / ArcGIS REST query and download APIs (GeoJSON, CSV, Shapefile, KML).
      Portal verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://spatialdata-uom.opendata.arcgis.com/
    tags: [ Open Data, GIS, Geospatial, ArcGIS, Spatial ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://spatialdata-uom.opendata.arcgis.com/
  - aid: university-of-melbourne:boomi-developer-portal
    name: Internal API Management Developer Portal (Boomi) — Gated
    description: >-
      The University of Melbourne operates a Boomi-based API management
      developer portal providing self-service access to internal data APIs for
      staff and students. This portal is gated behind university authentication
      and is not publicly documented; no public endpoints, base URL or sign-up
      could be confirmed. Listed here honestly as a known but non-public API
      surface.
    humanURL: https://boomi.com/blog/university-of-melbourne-innovates-with-api-driven-strategy/
    tags: [ API Management, Boomi, Internal, Gated ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://boomi.com/blog/university-of-melbourne-innovates-with-api-driven-strategy/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/unimelb
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-melbourne/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sso.unimelb.edu.au/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-melbourne-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-melbourne-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-melbourne-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]