University of Padua

---
aid: university-of-padua
name: University of Padua
description: >-
  The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova) is a public research
  university in Padua, Italy, founded in 1222 and ranked #236 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is centered on the
  University Library System (SBA) rather than a single official developer portal:
  PHAIDRA, the digital-collections platform, exposes a documented REST API
  (OpenAPI), a IIIF image service, and an OAI-PMH endpoint, while the EPrints-based
  Padua@Research and Research Data Unipd repositories provide OAI-PMH metadata
  harvesting. Authentication across university services is delivered through a
  Shibboleth/SAML Single Sign-On integrated with the IDEM GARR federation and
  eduGAIN. There is no central institutional GitHub organization for the
  university as a whole; public code lives in individual lab and department orgs.
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-padua/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Open Data
  - Research Data
  - Library
  - Repository
  - Italy
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-padua:phaidra
    name: PHAIDRA Digital Collections REST API
    description: >-
      PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System's platform for the
      management, consultation, and long-term archiving of digital objects and
      collections (images, texts, books, videos). It exposes a documented REST
      API (Mojolicious/Perl) described by an OpenAPI definition, including object
      metadata endpoints such as /api/object/{pid}/index/dc. Verified live at
      time of review.
    humanURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/
    baseURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api
    tags: [ Library, Digital Collections, REST, OpenAPI, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/openapi
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/openapi
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-padua-phaidra.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-padua-object_info-schema.json
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-padua-vocabulary.yml
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/university-of-padua-rules.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/university-of-padua-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-padua:phaidra-iiif
    name: PHAIDRA IIIF Image API
    description: >-
      PHAIDRA serves digital images through an IIIF (International Image
      Interoperability Framework) image server, enabling standards-based deep
      zoom and image delivery for the university's digital collections.
    humanURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/
    baseURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/imageserver
    tags: [ IIIF, Images, Library, Digital Collections ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/openapi
  - aid: university-of-padua:phaidra-oai
    name: PHAIDRA OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the PHAIDRA digital collections,
      allowing programmatic harvesting of Dublin Core and related metadata.
      Verified live (verb=Identify returns HTTP 200) at time of review.
    humanURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/
    baseURL: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/oai
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata, Library, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
      - type: OAI-PMH
        url: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-padua:padua-research-oai
    name: Padua@Research OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      Padua@Research (Padua Research Archive) is an EPrints-based institutional
      repository of the University of Padua's scientific production. It exposes an
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface; full text of some items is
      restricted to registered users. Verified live at time of review.
    humanURL: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/
    baseURL: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Repository, EPrints, Research, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/
      - type: OAI-PMH
        url: https://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-padua:researchdata-oai
    name: Research Data Unipd OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      Research Data Unipd is the EPrints-based research-data archive of the
      University of Padua, supporting data discovery, sharing, and reuse using
      DataCite and Dublin Core metadata. It is an OpenAIRE content provider and is
      registered in re3data, OpenDOAR, and FAIRsharing. Exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0
      endpoint (repositoryName "Research Data Unipd"), verified live at time of
      review.
    humanURL: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/
    baseURL: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Research Data, EPrints, Repository, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/
      - type: OAI-PMH
        url: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-padua:sso
    name: Single Sign-On (Shibboleth/SAML)
    description: >-
      The University of Padua provides centralized authentication via a
      Shibboleth-based Single Sign-On, integrated with the IDEM GARR federation
      and eduGAIN. Service Provider integration and SAML metadata parameters are
      documented for technical staff; this is institutional federated identity
      infrastructure, not a self-service public API.
    humanURL: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
    tags: [ Authentication, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Identity ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://registrazionisp.ict.unipd.it/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.unipd.it/en
  - type: Library
    url: https://biblio.unipd.it/en
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://it.linkedin.com/school/university-of-padova/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://asit.unipd.it/single-sign-informazioni-tecniche-service-provider
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-padua-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-padua-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-padua-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]