Harvard University
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts; founded 1636; private, Ivy League) is one of the few institutions in this cohort with a genuinely institution-operated programmable footprint rather than a borrowed one. Five surfaces are Harvard's own: the Harvard Dataverse research data repository, which runs on Harvard's own infrastructure and whose Dataverse software is written by Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and serves a live 450-path OpenAPI; the Harvard Library LibraryCloud open metadata API, unauthenticated over 12M+ bibliographic records; the Harvard Art Museums collections API; a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the InCommon federation with REFEDS SIRTFI assurance; and two Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab surfaces, the Caselaw Access Project static bulk data and a 2026 OpenAPI 3.1 agent-skills hub. Alongside them sit five vendor tenancies that are just as real and are recorded as such rather than credited to Harvard: DASH runs on 4Science's managed DSpace behind a harvard.edu hostname, the HOLLIS catalog is an Ex Libris Primo VE instance, harvard.figshare.com is a Figshare tenancy, canvas.harvard.edu is an Instructure tenancy, and harvard.zoom.us is a Zoom tenancy. There is no unified developer program: the central HUIT API Portal exists but its catalog, its base URLs and its credentials all sit behind HarvardKey, and the whole harvard.edu Drupal estate answers automated clients with an Akamai 403.
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 Harvard University the way a machine reads it — 66 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — Harvard University scores 46.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (agent aware). 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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How we profile Harvard University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Harvard 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 50
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.
Harvard Dataverse OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Harvard Dataverse. Identify returns repositoryName "Harvard Dataverse Dataverse OAI Archive" with adminEmail support@dataverse.harva...
Harvard Library LibraryCloud API (Open Metadata)
Open metadata hub aggregating Harvard bibliographic metadata (12.7M+ bib records, image records, ArchivesSpace finding aids) and returning normalized MODS or Dublin Core. The pu...
Harvard Art Museums API
REST/JSON API to the Harvard Art Museums' collections across 25 documented resources (object, person, exhibition, publication, gallery, classification, culture, medium, period, ...
Harvard University Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)
Harvard's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://fed.huit.harvard.edu/idp/shibboleth, registered in the InCommon federation and reachable as signed machine-readable metada...
Caselaw Access Project bulk data (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's digitization of US case law, served as static bulk data organized by reporter. The live REST API at api.case.law was retired in 2024 ...
Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)
Perma.cc is the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's link-rot service, creating permanent citable archives of web pages, and it exposes a public REST API at api.perma.cc....
Harvard API Portal (HUIT)
Harvard University Information Technology's central catalog of administrative APIs - Courses, Person Data Service, Library Catalog, Dining, HR Departments, Zoom, Emailer and Gen...
Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)
DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) is Harvard's open-access institutional repository of 58,000+ scholarly works, exposing an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and a DSpace ...
HOLLIS library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)
HOLLIS is Harvard Library's discovery layer. hollis.harvard.edu CNAMEs to hvd.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and redirects to /discovery/search?vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2, a standard Ex Libri...
Harvard Figshare tenancy
harvard.figshare.com is a Figshare institutional tenancy - the host CNAMEs directly to figshare.com. This is precisely the surface that produced the misattribution this pipeline...
Canvas LMS tenancy (Instructure)
canvas.harvard.edu CNAMEs to harvard-vanity.instructure.com. The Canvas REST API is live on that hostname and returns a well-formed JSON 401 to an anonymous caller, which makes ...
Zoom tenancy
harvard.zoom.us is a Zoom institutional tenancy branded "Zoom for Harvard", and a Zoom API appears in the HUIT API Portal catalog. The account is Harvard's; the API is Zoom's. R...
Harvard University Access API
The Access API from Harvard University — 23 operation(s) for access.
Harvard University Actions API
The Actions API from Harvard University — 4 operation(s) for actions.
Harvard University Add Files To Dataset API
Uploads a set of files to a dataset
Harvard University Add File To Dataset API
Uploads a file for a dataset
Harvard University Add Globus Files To Dataset API
Uploads a Globus file for a dataset
Harvard University Admin API
The Admin API from Harvard University — 127 operation(s) for admin.
Harvard University Batch API
The Batch API from Harvard University — 3 operation(s) for batch.
Harvard University Builtin Users API
The Builtin Users API from Harvard University — 4 operation(s) for builtin users.
Harvard University Datasetfields API
The Datasetfields API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for datasetfields.
Harvard University Datasets API
The Datasets API from Harvard University — 102 operation(s) for datasets.
Harvard University Datatags API
The Datatags API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for datatags.
Harvard University Dataverse Featured Items API
The DataverseFeaturedItems API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for dataversefeatureditems.
Harvard University Dataverses API
The Dataverses API from Harvard University — 46 operation(s) for dataverses.
Harvard University Edit API
The Edit API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for edit.
Harvard University External Tools API
The ExternalTools API from Harvard University — 2 operation(s) for externaltools.
Harvard University Files API
The Files API from Harvard University — 21 operation(s) for files.
Harvard University Guestbooks API
The Guestbooks API from Harvard University — 4 operation(s) for guestbooks.
Harvard University Harvest API
The Harvest API from Harvard University — 7 operation(s) for harvest.
Harvard University Inbox API
The Inbox API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for inbox.
Harvard University Info API
The Info API from Harvard University — 53 operation(s) for info.
Harvard University Ingest API
The Ingest API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for ingest.
Harvard University Licenses API
The Licenses API from Harvard University — 6 operation(s) for licenses.
Harvard University Localcontexts API
The Localcontexts API from Harvard University — 2 operation(s) for localcontexts.
Harvard University Logout API
The Logout API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for logout.
Harvard University Mail API
The Mail API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for mail.
Harvard University Meta API
The Meta API from Harvard University — 2 operation(s) for meta.
Harvard University Metadatablocks API
The Metadatablocks API from Harvard University — 2 operation(s) for metadatablocks.
Harvard University Mydata API
The Mydata API from Harvard University — 2 operation(s) for mydata.
Harvard University Notifications API
The Notifications API from Harvard University — 8 operation(s) for notifications.
Harvard University Pids API
The Pids API from Harvard University — 6 operation(s) for pids.
Harvard University Replace Files In Dataset API
Replace a file to a dataset
Harvard University Roles API
The Roles API from Harvard University — 3 operation(s) for roles.
Harvard University Save Auxiliary File With Version API
Save Auxiliary File With Version
Harvard University Search API
The Search API from Harvard University — 2 operation(s) for search.
Harvard University Sendfeedback API
The Sendfeedback API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for sendfeedback.
Harvard University Upload Dataset Logo API
Uploads a logo for a dataset
Harvard University Users API
The Users API from Harvard University — 10 operation(s) for users.
Harvard University Workflows API
The Workflows API from Harvard University — 1 operation(s) for workflows.
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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 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.
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.
Harvard 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.
Harvard 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.
Harvard Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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.
Harvard University API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
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.
Harvard Library LibraryCloud Item response
JSON SCHEMAExamples 5
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.
Security Posture 3
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Harvard 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
Documentation 6
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 10
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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