UCLouvain
UCLouvain (Universite catholique de Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university -- a private institution subsidised by public authorities, Catholic in identity, based in Louvain-la-Neuve with campuses in Brussels, Mons, Tournai, Charleroi and Namur, and ranked #203 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its programmable footprint is small, real, and mostly NOT its own engineering. UCLouvain operates no public developer portal, issues no API keys, and api.uclouvain.be answers 503 with no backend behind it. What it does operate, verified live on 2026-08-30: the Orthanc medical-imaging ecosystem -- a genuinely UCLouvain-authored open-source project run out of ICTEAM's Health Informatics Lab, publishing a 239-path OpenAPI 3.0 contract and a public demo server; four OAI-PMH 2.0 repositories (Dataverse open data, DIAL.pr research publications, DIAL.mem master's theses, OER-UCLouvain open educational resources); a SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider registered with the Belnet federation and exported to eduGAIN; and Crossref membership in its own right, minting DOIs under prefix 10.14428. Everything else that looks like a UCLouvain API is a product's contract running on a UCLouvain host: the Dataverse 6.8 Native API and the DSpace-CRIS 8.1 REST API behind DIAL are recorded here as tenant deployments, not as UCLouvain's contracts. An earlier profile of this repository credited UCLouvain with 36 OpenAPI definitions that were in fact one Dataverse product spec split by tag -- a contract eight institutions in this catalog ship identically. Those have been removed.
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 UCLouvain the way a machine reads it — 15 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — UCLouvain scores 32.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (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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Kin Score
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How we profile UCLouvain
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UCLouvain. 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 9
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.
Orthanc API
Orthanc is a free and open-source, vendor-neutral DICOM server and medical-imaging ecosystem. UCLouvain describes itself as "the innovation engine behind Orthanc": the project i...
Open Data @ UCLouvain -- Dataverse deployment (Native + Search API)
Open Data @ UCLouvain is the institution's research-data repository, running Dataverse 6.8 on UCLouvain infrastructure at dataverse.uclouvain.be and minting DOIs under UCLouvain...
Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the UCLouvain research-data repository. Identify returns repositoryName "Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI Archive", adminEmail ci...
DIAL.pr (BOREAL) -- DSpace-CRIS REST API
DIAL.pr, branded BOREAL, is UCLouvain's institutional repository for the research publications of its professors and staff. It runs DSpace-CRIS 8.1 (cris-2025.01.00) on the UCLo...
DIAL.pr OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for DIAL.pr, UCLouvain's research-publications repository. Identify returns repositoryName "Dial.pr", adminEmail bibsys@uclouvain.be, earliestDat...
DIAL.mem -- DSpace-CRIS REST API
DIAL.mem is UCLouvain's institutional repository for master's theses, part of the DIAL (Digital Access to Libraries) family. It runs the same DSpace-CRIS 8.1 stack as DIAL.pr, o...
DIAL.mem OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for DIAL.mem, UCLouvain's master's-thesis repository. Identify returns repositoryName "Dial.mem", adminEmail bibsys@uclouvain.be, earliestDatesta...
OER-UCLouvain OAI-PMH
OER-UCLouvain is the institution's open educational resources repository, running DSpace JSPUI on oer.uclouvain.be (CNAME dspace.sipr.ucl.ac.be, UCLouvain's own SIPR infrastruct...
UCLouvain Shibboleth Identity Provider -- SAML 2.0 metadata
UCLouvain runs its own Shibboleth identity provider and publishes signed SAML 2.0 entity metadata at a stable, unauthenticated URL. entityID https://idp.uclouvain.be/idp/shibbol...
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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.
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.
Uclouvain 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.
Uclouvain Finops
FINOPSExamples 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for UCLouvain — 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.
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 1
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 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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