Cardiff University
Cardiff University is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, ranked #186 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. The university operates a public developer portal at data.cardiff.ac.uk (powered by WSO2 API Manager) exposing a small set of RESTful institutional APIs covering courses, modules, lookups, and research publications. The APIs are OAuth2-secured: integration requires creating an application and generating consumer keys and access tokens, with external developer access granted on request by emailing [email protected]. The gateway is hosted at api.data.cardiff.ac.uk.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Cardiff University the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — Cardiff University scores 47.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Cardiff University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cardiff 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 16
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.
Cardiff University Assessments API
The Assessments API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for assessments.
Cardiff University Clearing Adjustments API
The Clearing Adjustments API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for clearing adjustments.
Cardiff University Courses API
The Courses API from Cardiff University — 4 operation(s) for courses.
Cardiff University * API
The * API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for *.
Cardiff University Groups API
The Groups API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for groups.
Cardiff University Levels API
The Levels API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for levels.
Cardiff University Modules API
The Modules API from Cardiff University — 5 operation(s) for modules.
Cardiff University Occurrences API
The Occurrences API from Cardiff University — 4 operation(s) for occurrences.
Cardiff University Publications API
The Publications API from Cardiff University — 2 operation(s) for publications.
Cardiff University Qualifications API
The Qualifications API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for qualifications.
Cardiff University Rollover API
The Rollover API from Cardiff University — 2 operation(s) for rollover.
Cardiff University Schools API
The Schools API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for schools.
Cardiff University Semesters API
The Semesters API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for semesters.
Cardiff University Subjects API
The Subjects API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for subjects.
Cardiff University Test API
The Test API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for test.
Cardiff University Years API
The Years API from Cardiff University — 1 operation(s) for years.
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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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate 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.
Cardiff 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.
Cardiff Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Cardiff Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Cardiff University API Rules
SPECTRALCardiff University API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 4
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
JSON Structure 3
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Cardiff Course Structure
JSON STRUCTURECardiff Module Structure
JSON STRUCTURECardiff Publication Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 4
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Cardiff Courses List Example
EXAMPLECardiff Modules List Example
EXAMPLESecurity 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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cardiff 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.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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