University of Southampton

---
aid: university-of-southampton
name: University of Southampton
description: >-
  The University of Southampton is a public research university in Southampton,
  United Kingdom, ranked #70 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It is a
  founding member of the Russell Group and a recognized pioneer of open and
  linked data in higher education. Its developer/API footprint is centered on
  the University of Southampton Open Data Service (data.southampton.ac.uk),
  which publishes campus, building, organizational, catalogue, and facilities
  data as linked data with a public SPARQL endpoint and multiple
  machine-readable formats (RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, CSV, KML, ICS). The
  University is also the home of the EPrints open-source repository platform;
  its institutional research repository (ePrints Soton) exposes an OAI-PMH
  metadata harvesting interface. There is no single unified commercial API
  developer portal; access is open and standards-based rather than
  key-gated.
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-southampton/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - SPARQL
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research
  - United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-southampton:open-data-sparql
    name: Open Data Service SPARQL Endpoint
    description: >-
      Public SPARQL query endpoint for the University of Southampton Open Data
      Service, backed by a triple store (Sesame) with an arc2 front end. Allows
      querying of campus, building, organizational, catalogue, and facilities
      linked data.
    humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Open Data, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDF ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.data.southampton.ac.uk/faq.html
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/southampton
  - aid: university-of-southampton:open-data-linked-data
    name: Open Data Linked Data (RDF) Service
    description: >-
      Linked open data published at data.southampton.ac.uk. Resource pages
      offer machine-readable representations via content negotiation and
      "get the data" links in RDF/XML (.rdf), Turtle (.ttl), N-Triples (.nt),
      and where relevant CSV, KML, ICS, and RSS.
    humanURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Open Data, Linked Data, RDF, Campus ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.data.southampton.ac.uk/faq.html
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/southampton
  - aid: university-of-southampton:eprints-oai-pmh
    name: ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for ePrints Soton, the University's
      institutional research repository, built on the EPrints platform
      (originally developed at Southampton). The repository is read-only for
      search and harvesting; new deposits now go through Pure. Note: a direct
      probe of the OAI-PMH endpoint returned HTTP 403 (likely automated-request
      filtering); the interface is documented and intended for repository
      harvesters.
    humanURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Repository, Research, Metadata, EPrints ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/southampton
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-southampton/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://data.southampton.ac.uk/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/southampton
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-southampton-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-southampton-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-southampton-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: Blog
    url: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/data/
  - type: BlogRSS
    url: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/data/feed/
  - type: x-blogs
    url: blogs/blogs.json
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-southampton-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]