Newcastle University
Newcastle University is a public research university in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, and a member of the Russell Group. Its programmable footprint is genuinely its own but it is small, decentralised and unadvertised: there is no central developer portal, no API changelog, no status page and no developer support channel anywhere on ncl.ac.uk. What the institution actually operates and runs itself, verified live on 2026-08-30, is four things — the Urban Observatory API for the Urban Sciences Building (the largest open urban-sensing platform in the UK, on a domain Newcastle registered and serves from its own nameservers), the Library's Digitised Objects Repository Search and Data API, which publishes its own OpenAPI at /info/open-api and serves 15,482 digitised objects from Special Collections, the ECPPEC eighteenth-century electoral GraphQL API with open introspection, and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint over the eTheses repository. Alongside these it operates a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation with 168 service providers under ncl.ac.uk, which is by volume the institution's largest machine-readable surface and is a login federation rather than a data API. Its research data repository, data.ncl, is a Figshare tenant: the data and the DOIs are Newcastle's, the API contract is Figshare's, and it is recorded here as a tenant relationship rather than credited to the university.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Newcastle University the way a machine reads it — 42 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 — Newcastle University scores 27.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 33/100 (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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How we profile Newcastle University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Newcastle 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.
Digitised Objects Repository Search and Data API
A single point-of-truth interface for searching, browsing and displaying the digitised objects held in Newcastle University Library's Special Collections. Eighteen operations ac...
ECPPEC Electoral Data GraphQL API
A GraphQL API over the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture research dataset — historical British elections, constituencies, candidates, poll books, ...
Newcastle University eTheses OAI-PMH Endpoint
An OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface over Newcastle University's electronic theses repository, running on DSpace 6.3. Supports oai_dc, dim and the uketd_dc profile used ...
data.ncl Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)
Newcastle University's institutional research data repository, operated for the university by Figshare on a Newcastle-branded custom domain. Programmatic access exists but runs ...
Urban Observatory API (Urban Sciences Building) — Entity
An entity ordinarily describes a spatial location, such as a room in a building or a pole in the street. In some circumstances an entity may be a mobile piece of equipment, in w...
Urban Observatory API (Urban Sciences Building) — Feed
A feed is a representation of a measurement or parametrisation, usually a metric, for example the observed temperature.
Urban Observatory API (Urban Sciences Building) — Summary
A compact summary view over Urban Sciences Building entities and the feeds attached to them.
Urban Observatory API (Urban Sciences Building) — Timeseries
There may be more than one timeseries associated with a feed. Ordinarily there will be a plain timeseries representing raw data from the device; in some cases there may be addit...
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Open Collections 5
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 COLLECTIONUrban Observatory API: Urban Sciences Building Entity 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.
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.
Newcastle 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.
Newcastle 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.
Newcastle 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.
Newcastle University API Rules
SPECTRALNewcastle University API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 10
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.
DigitisedObject
JSON SCHEMACollection
JSON SCHEMADorError
JSON SCHEMADorPagination
JSON SCHEMAEntity
JSON SCHEMAEntitySummary
JSON SCHEMAFeed
JSON SCHEMAHateoasLinks
JSON SCHEMATimeseries
JSON SCHEMATimeseriesEntry
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JSON Structure 4
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.
Newcastle Entity Structure
JSON STRUCTURENewcastle Feed Structure
JSON STRUCTURENewcastle Timeseries Structure
JSON STRUCTURENewcastle Timeseriesentry Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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 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.
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.
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 Newcastle 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
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
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 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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