University of Zurich

---
aid: university-of-zurich
name: University of Zurich
description: >-
  The University of Zurich (UZH) is Switzerland's largest university, founded in
  1833, and is ranked #61 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UZH does not
  operate a centralized public developer portal; its machine-readable footprint
  is centered on open scholarship and identity infrastructure. The Zurich Open
  Repository and Archive (ZORA) exposes the university's research output, the
  GitHub organization "uzh" hosts open-source projects, and federated identity is
  provided through SWITCH edu-ID (SAML/Shibboleth and OpenID Connect). Most
  student-facing systems (course catalogue, OLAT LMS, student services) are
  web/SSO-gated rather than openly documented APIs.
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-zurich/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Switzerland
  - Open Access
  - Research Repository
  - Open Data
  - Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-zurich:zora-oai
    name: ZORA Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      The Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) provides open, worldwide
      access to the peer-reviewed research and scholarly output of the University
      of Zurich. ZORA supports OAI-PMH 2.0 for metadata harvesting. As of October
      2025 ZORA migrated from EPrints to DSpace; the OAI-PMH base URL is served
      from the DSpace stack and the legacy EPrints endpoint (/cgi/oai2) is no
      longer active.
    humanURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
    baseURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/oai/request
    tags: [ Research Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
  - aid: university-of-zurich:zora-rest
    name: ZORA DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      Following its 2025 migration to DSpace 7+, ZORA exposes the standard DSpace
      REST API (HAL+JSON) for programmatic discovery of communities, collections,
      and items representing UZH research output. This is the underlying DSpace
      back-end API rather than a bespoke UZH developer product.
    humanURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
    baseURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/server/api
    tags: [ Research Repository, Open Access, DSpace, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
  - aid: university-of-zurich:eduid-oidc
    name: SWITCH edu-ID / UZH Identity (SAML & OpenID Connect)
    description: >-
      UZH uses SWITCH edu-ID as its central identity, which is mandatory for
      SWITCHaai (Shibboleth/SAML) protected services and also supports modern
      OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 flows. The UZH edu-ID linking service offers an
      OAuth 2.0 login. This is federated identity infrastructure used to protect
      UZH services rather than a generally available public API.
    humanURL: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SAML, Shibboleth, OpenID Connect, OAuth2 ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://eduid.uzh.ch/linking/login
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-zurich-eduid-oidc.yaml
      - type: x-openid-configuration
        url: https://login.eduid.ch/.well-known/openid-configuration
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/university-of-zurich-userinfo-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/university-of-zurich-userinfo-structure.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/university-of-zurich-userinfo-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/university-of-zurich-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-zurich-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/university-of-zurich-context.jsonld
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uzh.ch/en.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uzh
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uzh
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/UZH_en
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-zurich-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-zurich-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-zurich-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]