Aarhus University
Aarhus University (Aarhus Universitet) is a public research university in Aarhus, Denmark, founded in 1928, with roughly 38,000 students across five faculties. It operates no central developer portal, no public API program, and no general-purpose institutional API — api.au.dk, data.au.dk, developer.au.dk and opendata.au.dk do not resolve. Its one genuinely institution-operated, publicly readable machine-readable surface is the OAI-PMH metadata harvesting service at pure.au.dk/ws/oai, which is live and fully functional: it identifies itself as the Aarhus University repository, is administered from pure@au.dk, offers five metadata profiles including the Danish national research-database formats, and emits ORCID iDs for Aarhus researchers. Everything else in the university's programmable footprint is a vendor's product running under the institution's name — the Elsevier Pure research information REST API at pure.au.dk/ws/api (gated, HTTP 401 without a key, and an Elsevier contract regardless of the host it is served from), the Semestry MyTimetable service at timetable.au.dk, and the ERDA/MiG research data archive at erda.au.dk. The kursuskatalog.au.dk course catalogue and the mitstudie.au.dk student self-service environment are web applications with no documented API. Aarhus is a member of WAYF, Denmark's national identity federation, and operates a SAML identity provider scoped to au.dk behind it. Code activity lives in departmental GitHub organisations such as cs-au-dk rather than in any central engineering programme.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Aarhus University the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Aarhus University scores 29.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 5/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile Aarhus University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Aarhus University. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Aarhus University OAI-PMH Metadata Service
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 service for Aarhus University's research record. Verified live on 2026-08-30: the Identify verb returns repositoryN...
Elsevier Pure REST API — Aarhus University deployment
Aarhus University's deployment of the Elsevier Pure research information system REST API. The data is Aarhus's — its researchers, projects, research outputs and organisational u...
Aarhus University Course Catalogue
kursuskatalog.au.dk is Aarhus University's public course catalogue, built and operated by the university on its own domain and served through AU's own CDN and font hosts. It is ...
Aarhus University Timetable (MyTimetable)
timetable.au.dk is Aarhus University's timetabling service. The host is the university's own, but the product is MyTimetable by Semestry — the served page identifies itself as "...
Aarhus University ERDA Research Data Archive
erda.au.dk is Aarhus University's Electronic Research Data Archive, running on the university's own infrastructure with AU and external user sign-in paths and companion hosts at...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Aarhus Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Aarhus Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Aarhus Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Aarhus University — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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