Victoria University of Wellington

---
aid: victoria-university-of-wellington
name: Victoria University of Wellington
description: >-
  Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is a public research
  university in Wellington, New Zealand, ranked #244 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. It does not operate a centralized, publicly documented
  developer portal; instead its public, machine-readable footprint is found in
  standards-based scholarly and library infrastructure. Confirmed public
  interfaces include a Figshare-powered Open Access research repository exposing
  an OAI-PMH metadata feed and the Figshare v2 REST API, and an Ex Libris
  Primo (Te Waharoa) discovery service backed by Alma. The university also
  maintains public GitHub organizations for its web UI toolkit and library
  engineering work.
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/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Library
  - New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:open-access-oai-pmh
    name: Open Access Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting feed for the Open Access Te Herenga
      Waka—Victoria University of Wellington research repository, hosted on
      Figshare. The university's records are exposed via the Figshare OAI-PMH
      endpoint scoped to set portal_771, supporting Dublin Core and other
      metadata prefixes. Verified live returning VUW article identifiers.
    humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/special-collections/open-access-institutional-repository
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
    tags: [ Open Access, OAI-PMH, Repository, Metadata, Research, Figshare ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://info.figshare.com/user-guide/how-to-use-figshares-oai-pmh-service/
  - aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:figshare-rest
    name: Figshare REST API (Open Access Repository)
    description: >-
      The Open Access Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
      repository is powered by Figshare, whose public v2 REST API exposes
      articles, collections, and project metadata. University outputs are
      discoverable through the shared Figshare API surface; the documented,
      public endpoint is operated by Figshare on the university's behalf.
    humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Open Access, REST, Repository, Research, Figshare ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/victoria-university-of-wellington-figshare-rest.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/victoria-university-of-wellington-article-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/victoria-university-of-wellington-article-structure.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/victoria-university-of-wellington-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/victoria-university-of-wellington-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/victoria-university-of-wellington-context.jsonld
  - aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:primo-discovery
    name: Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Primo / Alma)
    description: >-
      The university library's discovery service, branded Te Waharoa, runs on
      Ex Libris Primo backed by Alma resource management. The public discovery
      view uses VID 64VUW_INST:VUWNUI. Primo provides programmatic search and
      delivery interfaces; the public-facing search UI is verified live.
    humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
    baseURL: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI
    tags: [ Library, Discovery, Primo, Alma, Ex Libris, Search ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
  - aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:web-globalobject
    name: Website Global Object Endpoint
    description: >-
      An undocumented JSON configuration endpoint served by the university's
      main website that returns global site object data such as base URLs,
      logo, and navigation roots. Not a published developer API, but a
      confirmed-live public JSON endpoint observed on the wgtn.ac.nz CMS.
    humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
    baseURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject
    tags: [ Website, JSON, CMS, Undocumented ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/victoriauniversity
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/VUW-Library
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/victoria-university-of-wellington/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/victoria-university-of-wellington-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/victoria-university-of-wellington-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/victoria-university-of-wellington-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]