Seoul National University
Seoul National University (SNU) is South Korea's flagship national research university, a national university corporation in Seoul ranked in the QS World top 40 and identified by ROR as https://ror.org/04h9pn542. Like most universities it is a federation of buyers rather than a producer of APIs: it operates no developer portal, no open-data portal, no API gateway, no official GitHub organization, and no OAuth or OIDC authorization server. It publishes no API documentation of any kind, and every contract in this repository was written from live probing rather than from something SNU wrote. What it does operate — verified on its own hosts and its own address block on 2026-08-19 — is four machine-readable surfaces. Two OAI-PMH 2.0 data providers: S-Space, the SNU Open Repository and Archive (DSpace 5.5, content from 2008, twelve metadata formats, 100+ sets, three harvesting contexts including OpenAIRE and DRIVER), and KOSSDA, the Korea Social Science Data Archive (DSpace 5.6, content from 2017). An OpenSearch 1.1 search interface over S-Space. And a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, entityID https://kafegw.snu.ac.kr/idp/simplesamlphp, registered in the KAFE national federation and exported into eduGAIN with REFEDS Research & Scholarship support and a Sirtfi assurance assertion — the single most consequential programmable surface the institution runs, and one no catalog had recorded. Two honest limits belong in the same breath. The repository hosts front everything except OAI-PMH with a JavaScript bot challenge that returns HTTP 200 and an HTML shell to any machine client, so the OpenSearch interface is gated rather than open. And SNU's library discovery runs on Ex Libris Alma and Primo under institution code 82SNU — real, but a tenancy, recorded below as such and never scored as SNU's engineering.
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 Seoul National University the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Seoul National University scores 50.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 27/100 (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
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 Seoul National University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Seoul National 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 4
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.
Seoul National University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
SNU's federated identity provider, entityID https://kafegw.snu.ac.kr/idp/simplesamlphp, registered by the Korea Access Federation (registrationAuthority http://kafe.kreonet.net,...
SNU Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma) — tenancy
Seoul National University Library runs library management and discovery on Ex Libris Alma and Primo, institution code 82SNU / 82SNU_INST, on the institution-specific host snu-pr...
Seoul National University OAI PMH API
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 verbs.
Seoul National University Open Search API
OpenSearch 1.1 description and query endpoints.
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.
Snu 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.
Snu 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.
Snu 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.
Snu Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Seoul National 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.
SNU OAI-PMH Identify
JSON SCHEMASNU OAI-PMH Record (oai_dc)
JSON SCHEMASecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Seoul National 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.
Design & Contract 6
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 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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