University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

---
aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill
name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
description: >-
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a leading public research
  university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, ranked #155 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is
  centered on research and open-data infrastructure rather than a single unified
  developer portal: UNC Dataverse exposes a live, documented native REST API for
  social-science and research data (running Dataverse 6.8), the campus ArcGIS Hub
  open-data site publishes geospatial data through DCAT-US feeds and ArcGIS REST
  services, and the UNC Libraries software-development team maintains a public
  GitHub organization with the box-c Digital Collections Repository and other
  open-source tooling. Most administrative and student-information-system APIs
  (such as the Facilities SPOTS REST API and campus single sign-on) are gated
  behind Onyen/Shibboleth authentication.
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-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Geospatial
  - Digital Library
  - United States
  - North Carolina
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:dataverse
    name: UNC Dataverse API
    description: >-
      Native REST API for UNC Dataverse, the university's research data
      repository supported by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
      The API supports searching, depositing, downloading and managing datasets
      and dataverse collections, and is documented as part of the open-source
      Dataverse software (the live instance reports version 6.8 via
      /api/info/version).
    humanURL: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
    baseURL: https://dataverse.unc.edu/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Dataverse, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
      - type: Website
        url: https://dataverse.unc.edu/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-dataverse.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-dataset-schema.json
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-info-version-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-dataset-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-info-version-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-info-version-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-search-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:gis-opendata
    name: UNC GIS Open Data Hub
    description: >-
      UNC-Chapel Hill's ArcGIS Hub open-data site publishing geospatial and
      institutional datasets. Data is programmatically accessible via ArcGIS Hub
      DCAT-US 1.1 catalog feeds and the underlying ArcGIS REST / GeoServices
      endpoints (GeoJSON, CSV, and feature service queries).
    humanURL: https://gisdata-uncadmin.opendata.arcgis.com/
    baseURL: https://gisdata-uncadmin.opendata.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-us/1.1.json
    tags: [ Geospatial, GIS, Open Data, ArcGIS ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://gisdata-uncadmin.opendata.arcgis.com/
  - aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:digital-collections
    name: UNC Libraries Digital Collections Repository (box-c)
    description: >-
      The UNC Libraries Digital Collections Repository, powered by the
      open-source box-c application maintained by the UNC Libraries software
      development team on GitHub. Provides web access to digitized special
      collections; the application source and supporting tooling are publicly
      available, and the platform participates in standard library
      interoperability patterns.
    humanURL: https://dc.lib.unc.edu/
    tags: [ Digital Library, Repository, Special Collections ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dc.lib.unc.edu/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/UNC-Libraries/box-c
  - aid: university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill:spots
    name: Facilities SPOTS REST API
    description: >-
      REST API for the Space Planning and Occupancy Tracking System (SPOTS)
      provided by UNC Facilities Services for campus space and occupancy data.
      Documentation is gated behind UNC Onyen single sign-on and is not publicly
      accessible; listed here for completeness.
    humanURL: https://facilities.unc.edu/resources/mapping-and-space/spots-rest-api/
    tags: [ Facilities, Space Management, Gated ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://facilities.unc.edu/resources/mapping-and-space/spots-rest-api/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.unc.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/unc-libraries
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/unc-chapel-hill/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sso.unc.edu/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]