Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Universite) is a public research university in Paris, France, formed in 2018 from the merger of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre et Marie Curie universities, serving roughly 53,000 students across faculties of Arts & Humanities, Health Sciences, and Science & Engineering. It operates no central developer portal, no open-data portal, and no institution-operated REST API, and this profile says so rather than padding the gap. What it does operate, and self-publish, is a complete machine-readable SAML 2.0 identity federation contract. The identity provider at auth.id.sorbonne-universite.fr serves a signed EntityDescriptor at a dereferenceable entityID, is registered in the RENATER federation with the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and a SIRTFI assurance certification, and reaches the world through eduGAIN. Operator was settled by IP ownership rather than hostname: it CNAMEs to llng.sorbonne-universite.fr and resolves into FR-UPMC-NET, the university's own RIPE allocation at 4 Place Jussieu, behind an organization-validated GEANT TCS certificate issued to O=SORBONNE UNIVERSITE, running self-hosted LemonLDAP::NG. Three further RENATER service providers — including the 4EU+ virtual campus platform and a federated-wifi portal — sit on the university's own production estate. SAML is therefore Sorbonne's only institution-operated education-regime conformance, and Shibboleth is deliberately not claimed: the stack is LemonLDAP::NG and SimpleSAMLphp, not Shibboleth. Everything else that looks like a Sorbonne API is a national or commercial platform on which the university holds an account, and is recorded here as a tenant relationship rather than as a Sorbonne contract: the HAL open archive and its OAI-PMH and Solr search endpoints are CCSD's (CNRS), the sorbonne-univ research-data collection runs on Recherche Data Gouv's Dataverse with DOIs minted under Recherche Data Gouv's DataCite account, and library discovery is Ex Libris Primo/Alma. The GitHub organization exists and holds no public repositories. The university's own HAL portal host serves an Anubis proof-of-work bot challenge, so the one institutional research surface on a Sorbonne domain is closed to agents.
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 Sorbonne University the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 — Sorbonne University scores 29.8/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 3/100 (human only). 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 Sorbonne University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Sorbonne 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 5
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.
Sorbonne University Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
Sorbonne University's federated login, published as a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://auth.id.sorbonne-universite.fr/saml/metadata (HTTP 200, application/xml, 11,704...
HAL Sorbonne Universite Open Archive — OAI-PMH (Sorbonne scope)
Sorbonne University's open archive of scholarly publications, harvestable over OAI-PMH 2.0 at the Sorbonne-scoped base URL https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/sorbonne-universi...
HAL Search API — SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE collection
The HAL Solr search API scoped to Sorbonne University's collection at https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE/, which returns 326,851 records (HTTP 200, appl...
Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse — sorbonne-univ collection
Sorbonne University's research-data collection on the French national Recherche Data Gouv repository, addressable through the Dataverse Native REST API at https://entrepot.reche...
Sorbonne University Libraries — Ex Libris Primo discovery
Library discovery for Sorbonne University's letters, sciences and medicine libraries, running on Ex Libris Primo over the Alma library services platform, at the institution-spec...
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.
Sorbonne 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.
Sorbonne 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.
Sorbonne Context
JSON-LDSecurity Posture 1
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 Sorbonne 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 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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