Macquarie University
Macquarie University is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. Its programmable footprint is small, real, and almost entirely indirect: it operates no developer portal, no open-data platform, and no central API programme. The one institution-operated, keyless, machine-readable API surface found is the Macquarie University Research Portal OAI-PMH endpoint at research-management.mq.edu.au, which serves 114,062 publication records and a person registry over OAI-PMH 2.0 with five metadata formats and no authentication. Beyond it, Macquarie operates a Shibboleth SAML identity provider registered in the Australian Access Federation, a self-hosted Moodle (iLearn) whose web services are credential-gated, and a public library GitHub organisation whose code consumes Ex Libris Alma rather than exposing anything. Everything else that looks like a Macquarie API is a vendor's contract running under Macquarie's name — Figshare for the research data repository, Elsevier Pure for the research portal, CourseLoop for the course handbook, Ex Libris Primo for library discovery. Those relationships are recorded here as tenant surfaces; the vendors' contracts are not.
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 Macquarie University the way a machine reads it — 15 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 — Macquarie University scores 47.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (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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Kin Score
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How we profile Macquarie University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Macquarie 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 8
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.
Macquarie University Research Portal OAI-PMH
The one institution-operated, keyless, machine-readable API surface Macquarie publishes. OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for the Macquarie University Research Portal, served fro...
Macquarie University Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML 2.0)
Macquarie operates its own Shibboleth identity provider at idp.mq.edu.au, publishing SAML 2.0 metadata anonymously at /idp/shibboleth and registered in the Australian Access Fed...
Macquarie University iLearn (Moodle) Web Services
Macquarie self-hosts its learning management system as iLearn at ilearn.mq.edu.au and the Moodle web services REST endpoint answers publicly with a structured invalidtoken error...
Macquarie University Library Open-Source Tooling
The Macquarie University Library publishes six public repositories on GitHub as the mqlibrary organisation — an Alma toolkit (now archived), resource-sharing partner harvest and...
Macquarie University Research Portal (Elsevier Pure)
Macquarie's research-information system is Elsevier Pure, tenanted on Macquarie hosts — researchers.mq.edu.au for the public portal and research-management.mq.edu.au for the adm...
Macquarie University Research Data Repository (Figshare)
The Macquarie University Research Data Repository is Figshare for Institutions, tenanted at figshare.mq.edu.au with DOI prefix 10.25949 minted through DataCite as ARDCX.MQU. The...
Macquarie University Course Handbook (CourseLoop)
The Macquarie course handbook runs on CourseLoop as tenant siteId mq-prod-pres, served at coursehandbook.mq.edu.au from a shared vendor API at api-ap-southeast-2.prod.courseloop...
Macquarie University Library MultiSearch (Ex Libris Primo)
Library discovery for Macquarie runs on Ex Libris Primo at multisearch.mq.edu.au. The holdings are Macquarie's; Primo and the Alma platform beneath it are Ex Libris's, and the A...
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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.
Macquarie 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.
Macquarie Finops
FINOPSSpectral 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.
Macquarie University API Rules
SPECTRALExamples 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.
Macquarie Oai Pmh Examples
EXAMPLESecurity 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 Macquarie 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
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 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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