Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast is a Russell Group research-intensive university in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, founded in 1845, and ranked #206 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is limited and centered on research dissemination: the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal runs on Elsevier Pure and exposes an OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint for institutional research outputs, datasets, and theses. Most other digital services (student portal, applications portal, library discovery via Ex Libris Alma/Primo) are gated behind authentication and do not publish open developer documentation.
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 Queen's University Belfast the way a machine reads it — 56 machine-readable artifacts across 38 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 — Queen's University Belfast scores 44.3/100 (thin), 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 Queen's University Belfast
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Queen's University Belfast. 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 38
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.
Queen's University Belfast Research Portal (Pure OAI-PMH)
OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal, the institutional repository built on Elsevier Pure. It exposes research outputs, datase...
Queen's University Belfast activity API
The activity API from Queen's University Belfast — 39 operation(s) for activity.
Queen's University Belfast application API
The application API from Queen's University Belfast — 36 operation(s) for application.
Queen's University Belfast authorCollaboration API
The authorCollaboration API from Queen's University Belfast — 9 operation(s) for authorcollaboration.
Queen's University Belfast award API
The award API from Queen's University Belfast — 37 operation(s) for award.
Queen's University Belfast classificationScheme API
The classificationScheme API from Queen's University Belfast — 7 operation(s) for classificationscheme.
Queen's University Belfast concept API
The concept API from Queen's University Belfast — 4 operation(s) for concept.
Queen's University Belfast conferenceSeries API
The conferenceSeries API from Queen's University Belfast — 14 operation(s) for conferenceseries.
Queen's University Belfast contract API
The contract API from Queen's University Belfast — 26 operation(s) for contract.
Queen's University Belfast course API
The course API from Queen's University Belfast — 27 operation(s) for course.
Queen's University Belfast dataSet API
The dataSet API from Queen's University Belfast — 30 operation(s) for dataset.
Queen's University Belfast education API
The education API from Queen's University Belfast — 14 operation(s) for education.
Queen's University Belfast equipment API
The equipment API from Queen's University Belfast — 28 operation(s) for equipment.
Queen's University Belfast ethicalReview API
The ethicalReview API from Queen's University Belfast — 22 operation(s) for ethicalreview.
Queen's University Belfast event API
The event API from Queen's University Belfast — 22 operation(s) for event.
Queen's University Belfast externalOrganization API
The externalOrganization API from Queen's University Belfast — 29 operation(s) for externalorganization.
Queen's University Belfast externalPerson API
The externalPerson API from Queen's University Belfast — 22 operation(s) for externalperson.
Queen's University Belfast fingerprint API
The fingerprint API from Queen's University Belfast — 3 operation(s) for fingerprint.
Queen's University Belfast fundingOpportunity API
The fundingOpportunity API from Queen's University Belfast — 21 operation(s) for fundingopportunity.
Queen's University Belfast impact API
The impact API from Queen's University Belfast — 31 operation(s) for impact.
Queen's University Belfast journal API
The journal API from Queen's University Belfast — 22 operation(s) for journal.
Queen's University Belfast keywordGroupConfiguration API
The keywordGroupConfiguration API from Queen's University Belfast — 7 operation(s) for keywordgroupconfiguration.
Queen's University Belfast milestone API
The milestone API from Queen's University Belfast — 24 operation(s) for milestone.
Queen's University Belfast organization API
The organization API from Queen's University Belfast — 34 operation(s) for organization.
Queen's University Belfast person API
The person API from Queen's University Belfast — 58 operation(s) for person.
Queen's University Belfast personExpertise API
The personExpertise API from Queen's University Belfast — 7 operation(s) for personexpertise.
Queen's University Belfast pressMedia API
The pressMedia API from Queen's University Belfast — 24 operation(s) for pressmedia.
Queen's University Belfast prize API
The prize API from Queen's University Belfast — 29 operation(s) for prize.
Queen's University Belfast project API
The project API from Queen's University Belfast — 33 operation(s) for project.
Queen's University Belfast publisher API
The publisher API from Queen's University Belfast — 18 operation(s) for publisher.
Queen's University Belfast researchOutput API
The researchOutput API from Queen's University Belfast — 67 operation(s) for researchoutput.
Queen's University Belfast role API
The role API from Queen's University Belfast — 2 operation(s) for role.
Queen's University Belfast semester API
The semester API from Queen's University Belfast — 8 operation(s) for semester.
Queen's University Belfast specialization API
The specialization API from Queen's University Belfast — 8 operation(s) for specialization.
Queen's University Belfast studentProject API
The studentProject API from Queen's University Belfast — 26 operation(s) for studentproject.
Queen's University Belfast studentThesis API
The studentThesis API from Queen's University Belfast — 26 operation(s) for studentthesis.
Queen's University Belfast thesaurus API
The thesaurus API from Queen's University Belfast — 5 operation(s) for thesaurus.
Queen's University Belfast user API
The user API from Queen's University Belfast — 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.
Queens University Belfast 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.
Queen's University Belfast API Rules
SPECTRALQueen's University Belfast API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
Queens University Belfast Dataset Structure
JSON STRUCTUREQueens University Belfast Person Structure
JSON STRUCTUREQueens University Belfast Research Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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 Queen's University Belfast — 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
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
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 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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