Lund University
Lund University is a public research university in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1666, with roughly 46,000 students across nine faculties and the MAX IV and ESS research infrastructures on its doorstep. Its programmable footprint is narrow, real, and almost entirely library-operated: Lund University Libraries run two self-hosted publication repositories on the university's own host — Lund University Publications (LUP) for research output and LUP Student Papers for theses and degree projects — and each exposes the same open, keyless stack of a JSON(P) search API, an OAI-PMH 2.0 repository, an SRU 1.1/CQL search service, a unAPI 1 discovery service, RSS feeds and a bulk bibliographic export. Lund also operates its own Shibboleth Identity Provider, registered in the Swedish national federation SWAMID and interfederated through eduGAIN, which is a genuinely institution-operated machine-readable surface. Outside those, there is no central developer portal, no self-service API key, no open data portal at data.lu.se, and no public JSON endpoint behind the course finder — the education search at lunduniversity.lu.se is server-rendered with nothing machine-readable underneath. The research portal at portal.research.lu.se is the LUCRIS research information system running on Elsevier Pure: the data is Lund's, the contract is Elsevier's, and its web service refuses anonymous callers. Library discovery (LUBcat, LUBsearch) and the timetable (TimeEdit) are likewise vendor platforms carrying Lund's name.
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 Lund University the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — Lund University scores 41.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 29/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Lund University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Lund 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 9
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.
Lund University Publications Search API
Keyless REST/JSON(P) search over the Lund University Publications (LUP) research-output database, operated by Lund University Libraries on Lund's own host. Supports CQL-style qu...
Lund University Publications OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the LUP research-output repository. Identify confirms repositoryName "Lund University Publications", repositoryIdentifier lup.lub.lu...
Lund University Publications SRU
SRU 1.1 Search/Retrieve via URL service over the LUP research-output database, querying with CQL and returning MODS 3.3 records in the http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/ namespace. Sc...
Lund University Publications unAPI
unAPI 1 discovery service returning the alternate metadata formats available for LUP records, which is how reference managers such as Zotero autodiscover Lund records. No authen...
LUP Student Papers Search API
Keyless REST/JSON(P) search over LUP Student Papers, a second Lund University Libraries repository holding student theses and degree projects, with its own record model — course...
LUP Student Papers OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the LUP Student Papers repository. Identify confirms repositoryName "Lund University Publications - Student Papers" and repositoryIdentifier ...
LUP Student Papers SRU
SRU 1.1 / CQL search service over the LUP Student Papers repository, returning MODS 3.3 records. No authentication required. Base URL is /student-papers/sru.
Lund University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SWAMID)
Lund University's own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider, serving machine-readable federation metadata at its entityID. The EntityDescriptor declares an IDPSSODescriptor, t...
Lund University Research Portal (LUCRIS / Elsevier Pure)
Lund's tenant deployment of Elsevier Pure, branded LUCRIS, covering researchers, organisations, outputs, projects, datasets and activities at portal.research.lu.se. The data and...
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Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONLund University Publications (LUP) Search Publication API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Lund 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.
Lund 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.
Lund 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.
Lund 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.
Lund University API Rules
SPECTRALLund 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.
Publication
JSON SCHEMASearchResult
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
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.
Lund Publication Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 1
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.
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 Lund 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
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 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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