Ghent University
Ghent University (Universiteit Gent, UGent) is a major public research university in Ghent, Belgium, ranked #169 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint centers on the Ghent University Library: the Academic Bibliography (biblio.ugent.be) exposes a documented REST search API plus OAI-PMH, SRU, unAPI and bulk data dumps under an ODbL license, and the library catalog (lib.ugent.be) offers OAI-PMH, SRU, IIIF and OpenSearch interfaces. The university maintains official GitHub organizations (ugent, ugent-library), and the student computer-science group Zeus WPI publishes the open Hydra Resto API for student-restaurant menu data. There is no single centralized, gateway-style institutional developer portal; APIs are documented per service.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Ghent 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 — Ghent University scores 22.1/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (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
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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Ghent University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Ghent 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.
Ghent University Academic Bibliography API
The Academic Bibliography (Biblio) provides programmatic access to UGent research publication metadata via a REST search API (JSON/JSONP), an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint, an...
Ghent University Academic Bibliography OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the UGent Academic Bibliography, supporting Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListRecords verbs for full or selective harvesting of ...
Ghent University Academic Bibliography SRU
SRU 1.1 search/retrieve service for the UGent Academic Bibliography using Contextual Query Language (CQL), returning XML records for publication searches with sorting support.
Ghent University Library Catalog Interfaces
The Ghent University Library catalog (lib.ugent.be) exposes machine interfaces for its collections, including OAI-PMH metadata harvesting, SRU search with CQL, IIIF (Presentatio...
Hydra Resto API (Zeus WPI)
Open JSON API published by Zeus WPI, the computer-science student working group at Ghent University, powering the Hydra student app. The Resto API (v2.0) serves UGent student-re...
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.
Ghent 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.
Ghent 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.
Ghent 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.
Ghent Context
JSON-LDSecurity Posture 1
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 Ghent 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.
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
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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