University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia, and a member of Canada's U15 research group. Its programmable footprint is real but narrow, and almost all of it sits in UBC Library rather than in central IT. UBC Library operates the Open Collections API over the university's digitized archival and research collections, a IIIF Presentation endpoint over the same items, and the Abacus research-data repository — a Dataverse 5.9 deployment on UBC's own infrastructure that also serves a live OAI-PMH archive emitting DataCite kernel-4 and DDI Codebook metadata. Central IT publishes exactly one machine-readable artifact to the open internet: the SAML metadata for UBC's own Shibboleth identity provider at authentication.ubc.ca. Everything else the Office of the CIO runs is deliberately closed — the Integration Enablement Centre's MuleSoft gateway answers at api.ubc.ca with a flat 403, its API catalogue sits behind UBC's Confluence login, and entitlement is granted per-API through a Data Access Framework request rather than a developer portal. There is no public course, timetable or registrar API; course planning moved into Workday and the community projects that fill the gap are student-built and not endorsed by the university. UBC has no central developer portal, no API changelog and no deprecation policy, and every ubc.ca host sits behind a bot defence that answers automated clients with an HTML block page carrying HTTP 200.
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 University of British Columbia the way a machine reads it — 51 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — University of British Columbia scores 52.3/100 (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
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How we profile University of British Columbia
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of British Columbia. 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 7
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.
UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation API
IIIF Presentation manifests for Open Collections items, served from UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2026-08-19: a 10,560-byte JSON manifest returned for an item in the UBC...
UBC Library Abacus Dataverse API
The REST API of Abacus, UBC Library's research-data repository, running Dataverse 5.9 on UBC's own infrastructure at abacus.library.ubc.ca. UBC operates the deployment and the d...
Abacus OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint
A working OAI-PMH 2.0 archive on UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2026-08-19: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "Abacus Data Network Dataverse OAI Archive", adminEmail a...
UBC Shibboleth Identity Provider Metadata
UBC's own SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata, entityID https://authentication.ubc.ca, asserting the ubc.ca scope. Institution-operated by definition — no vendor can publish thi...
UBC Integration Enablement Centre API Gateway
UBC's enterprise API gateway, run by the Office of the CIO's Integration Enablement Centre against the University Data Model. The host is real and answers — api.ubc.ca returns a...
UBC IT Service Status API
Machine-readable service status for UBC IT at status.it.ubc.ca, on UBC's own hostname but CNAMEd to stspg-customer.com — UBC's tenant of Atlassian Statuspage. The status data is...
University of British Columbia Collections API
Collection-level metadata and item traversal.
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Open Collections 23
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 COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Admin API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Batch API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Builtin Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Datasets API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Datatags API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Dataverses API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Edit API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Files API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Harvest API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Info API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Ingest API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Mail API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Meta API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Metadatablocks API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Mydata API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Notifications API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Pids API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Roles API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONUBC Abacus Dataverse Access Workflows API
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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.
Ubc 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.
Ubc 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.
Ubc 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.
Ubc 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.
JSON 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.
UBC Abacus Dataverse DataFile
JSON SCHEMAUBC Abacus Dataverse Dataset
JSON SCHEMAUBC Abacus Dataverse Collection
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 2
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.
Ubc Dataset Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUbc Dataverse 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 3
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 University of British Columbia — 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
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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