Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is a research-intensive graduate university founded in 2010 within Qatar Foundation, in Education City, Doha, Qatar. Its central administration publishes no developer portal, no open-data portal and no identity federation entry — HBKU appears in no eduGAIN federation, and api.hbku.edu.qa answers every request with a WAF rejection. What it does operate comes almost entirely from one research institute, the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), whose domain qcri.org redirects into hbku.edu.qa: Fanar, Qatar's Arabic generative-AI platform, which publishes a first-party OpenAPI 3.1 at api.fanar.qa/openapi.json covering chat, speech, vision, translation, poetry and moderation, with a fourteen-code error vocabulary and a published per-model rate-limit table; and Farasa, a keyed Arabic NLP web API. Three further surfaces are tenant deployments on HBKU hosts and are recorded as relationships, not as HBKU contracts: a working public OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint over its Elsevier Pure research portal at elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai, a CourseLeaf course-search API at catalog.hbku.edu.qa whose term database is currently unavailable, and its research deposits in Manara — Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare platform run by Qatar National Library. The eleven "HBKU" Figshare API definitions this profile previously carried were one vendor contract, split eleven ways by tag and recorded under the university's name; they have been removed.
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 Hamad Bin Khalifa University the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Hamad Bin Khalifa University scores 42.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (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
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Kin Score
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How we profile Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hamad Bin Khalifa 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.
Fanar API
Fanar is Qatar's Arabic generative-AI platform, developed by the Qatar Computing Research Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa University with support from Qatar's Ministry of Communi...
Farasa Web API
Farasa ("insight") is the Arabic text-processing toolkit built by the Arabic Language Technologies group at QCRI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and offered free to registered us...
Elmi Research Portal — OAI-PMH
HBKU's research information system, Elmi, runs Elsevier Pure on the university's own subdomain and exposes a public, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint at elmi.hbku...
HBKU Academic Catalog — Course Search
HBKU publishes its academic catalog on its own host, catalog.hbku.edu.qa, running CourseLeaf. The catalog ships a JSON course-search endpoint at /course-search/api/ that answers...
Manara — Qatar Research Repository (HBKU portal)
HBKU's scholarly output is deposited in Manara — Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare platform operated by Qatar National Library, with an HBKU portal at manara.qnl.qa/hbku. Th...
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.
Hbku 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.
Hbku 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.
Hbku 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.
Hbku 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.
JSON 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.
Error
JSON SCHEMAModelsResponse
JSON SCHEMAExamples 3
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 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 Hamad Bin Khalifa 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
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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