University of Waikato

---
aid: university-of-waikato
name: University of Waikato
description: >-
  The University of Waikato (Te Whare Wananga o Waikato) is a public research
  university in Hamilton, New Zealand, founded in 1964 and ranked #235 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. Its publicly observable developer/API footprint
  is anchored by its DSpace 7.6.5 institutional repository, Research Commons,
  which exposes a documented REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface, alongside
  operational APIs run by IT Services (a One-Time Secret API and a campus
  identity/SSO provider) and research-software APIs from its Computing and
  Mathematical Sciences faculty (notably the User-friendly Deep Learning
  framework). There is no single consolidated developer portal; most APIs are
  service-specific and several require institutional accounts.
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-waikato/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-rest
    name: Research Commons REST API
    description: >-
      DSpace 7.6.5 REST API for the University of Waikato's Research Commons open
      access institutional repository, providing programmatic access to
      communities, collections, items, bitstreams and discovery search over the
      university's research publications and theses. The API root reports
      dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.5" and resolved live during review.
    humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
    baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, DSpace, Research, Open Access, Scholarly ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
  - aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-oai
    name: Research Commons OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Research Commons. An Identify
      request returns repositoryName "Research Commons" with baseURL
      https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request and an earliest
      datestamp of 1972, supporting standard verbs for harvesting Dublin Core and
      related metadata formats.
    humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Repository, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-waikato:ots
    name: One-Time Secret (OTS) API
    description: >-
      REST API operated by University of Waikato IT Services for creating and
      managing one-time secrets that can be shared securely and retrieved only
      once before being deleted. All requests use JSON over HTTPS and require HTTP
      Basic Authentication with a Stella account username and an API token. The
      documentation page resolved live during review.
    humanURL: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
    baseURL: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/api
    tags: [ Security, Secrets, IT Services, Utility ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
  - aid: university-of-waikato:ufdl
    name: User-friendly Deep Learning (UFDL) API
    description: >-
      JSON REST API for the University of Waikato's User-friendly Deep Learning
      (UFDL) framework, developed by the Faculty of Computing and Mathematical
      Sciences to make deep learning more accessible to domain experts. The API
      covers authentication, projects, teams and users; job templates, scheduling
      and outputs; and dataset management for image classification, object
      detection and speech. Documentation is described as work in progress.
    humanURL: https://ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz/ufdl-api/
    tags: [ Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Research, Data Science ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ufdl.cms.waikato.ac.nz/ufdl-api/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/waikato-ufdl
  - aid: university-of-waikato:identity
    name: University of Waikato Identity Provider (uowidp)
    description: >-
      Campus single sign-on / identity provider service hosted at
      api.svc.waikato.ac.nz under the uowidp path. The v1 login endpoint resolved
      live during review and serves a University of Waikato sign-in interface for
      authenticating to institutional services. Access is gated to university
      accounts; no public developer documentation was located.
    humanURL: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/login
    tags: [ Identity, SSO, Authentication, Gated ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/login
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Waikato
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universityofwaikato/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/waikato
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Waikato/waikato-repositories
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-waikato-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-waikato-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-waikato-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]