Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded research university in Hong Kong SAR, ranked #253 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint centers on research information: the HKBU Scholars research portal is powered by Elsevier Pure, which exposes a documented Pure Web Service API (OpenAPI 3) for research outputs, persons, organisations, and related metadata. HKBU also operates a mobile-app backend and various library and digital scholarship platforms, though most of these are gated or undocumented for external developers and require institutional affiliation. There is no central institutional developer portal or organization-wide GitHub org; public code is published by individual research groups.
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 Hong Kong Baptist University the way a machine reads it — 51 machine-readable artifacts across 34 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 — Hong Kong Baptist University scores 46.2/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Hong Kong Baptist University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hong Kong Baptist 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 34
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.
HKBU Mobile App Backend (gated)
Backend host serving the official HKBU mobile application (mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk). The host resolves and serves app support content such as the app privacy notice, but there is n...
Hong Kong Baptist University activity API
The activity API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 38 operation(s) for activity.
Hong Kong Baptist University application API
The application API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 36 operation(s) for application.
Hong Kong Baptist University authorCollaboration API
The authorCollaboration API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 9 operation(s) for authorcollaboration.
Hong Kong Baptist University award API
The award API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 36 operation(s) for award.
Hong Kong Baptist University classificationScheme API
The classificationScheme API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 7 operation(s) for classificationscheme.
Hong Kong Baptist University concept API
The concept API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 4 operation(s) for concept.
Hong Kong Baptist University course API
The course API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 27 operation(s) for course.
Hong Kong Baptist University dataSet API
The dataSet API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 29 operation(s) for dataset.
Hong Kong Baptist University education API
The education API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 14 operation(s) for education.
Hong Kong Baptist University equipment API
The equipment API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 26 operation(s) for equipment.
Hong Kong Baptist University ethicalReview API
The ethicalReview API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 22 operation(s) for ethicalreview.
Hong Kong Baptist University event API
The event API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 21 operation(s) for event.
Hong Kong Baptist University externalOrganization API
The externalOrganization API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 29 operation(s) for externalorganization.
Hong Kong Baptist University externalPerson API
The externalPerson API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 22 operation(s) for externalperson.
Hong Kong Baptist University fundingOpportunity API
The fundingOpportunity API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 21 operation(s) for fundingopportunity.
Hong Kong Baptist University impact API
The impact API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 31 operation(s) for impact.
Hong Kong Baptist University journal API
The journal API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 22 operation(s) for journal.
Hong Kong Baptist University keywordGroupConfiguration API
The keywordGroupConfiguration API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 7 operation(s) for keywordgroupconfiguration.
Hong Kong Baptist University milestone API
The milestone API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 24 operation(s) for milestone.
Hong Kong Baptist University organization API
The organization API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 33 operation(s) for organization.
Hong Kong Baptist University person API
The person API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 57 operation(s) for person.
Hong Kong Baptist University pressMedia API
The pressMedia API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 24 operation(s) for pressmedia.
Hong Kong Baptist University prize API
The prize API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 28 operation(s) for prize.
Hong Kong Baptist University project API
The project API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 33 operation(s) for project.
Hong Kong Baptist University publisher API
The publisher API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 18 operation(s) for publisher.
Hong Kong Baptist University researchOutput API
The researchOutput API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 66 operation(s) for researchoutput.
Hong Kong Baptist University role API
The role API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 2 operation(s) for role.
Hong Kong Baptist University semester API
The semester API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 8 operation(s) for semester.
Hong Kong Baptist University specialization API
The specialization API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 8 operation(s) for specialization.
Hong Kong Baptist University studentProject API
The studentProject API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 26 operation(s) for studentproject.
Hong Kong Baptist University studentThesis API
The studentThesis API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 26 operation(s) for studentthesis.
Hong Kong Baptist University thesaurus API
The thesaurus API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 5 operation(s) for thesaurus.
Hong Kong Baptist University user API
The user API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 7 operation(s) for user.
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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.
Hong Kong Baptist University 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.
Semantic 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.
Spectral 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.
JSON Schema 3
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.
Hong Kong Baptist University Organization Structure
JSON STRUCTUREHong Kong Baptist University Person Structure
JSON STRUCTUREHong Kong Baptist University Research Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
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.
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 Hong Kong Baptist 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.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
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 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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