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UCLouvain

UCLouvain (Universite catholique de Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university, based in Louvain-la-Neuve, and is ranked #203 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in open science and library infrastructure rather than a single unified developer portal: the institution operates an institutional Dataverse open-data repository and the DIAL (Digital Access to Libraries) institutional repository, both of which expose standards-based APIs (Dataverse Native/Search API and OAI-PMH metadata harvesting). UCLouvain also maintains a public GitHub organization and originated the open-source OSIS (Open Student Information System) project. No single gated, key-issuing developer portal was confirmed at the time of review.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles UCLouvain the way a machine reads it — 51 machine-readable artifacts across 39 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 — UCLouvain scores 36.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 36.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 11.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 5.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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 39

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.

Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI-PMH

The UCLouvain Dataverse repository exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint ("Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI Archive") for harvesting dataset metadata by externa...

DIAL UCLouvain OAI-PMH

DIAL (Digital Access to Libraries) is UCLouvain's institutional repository for research publications. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint ("DIAL UCLouvain Repository") for harves...

OSIS - Open Student Information System

OSIS (Open Student Information System) is an open-source higher-education management platform originated and maintained by UCLouvain to manage students, teachers, courses, and p...

UCLouvain Access API

The Access API from UCLouvain — 23 operation(s) for access.

UCLouvain addFilesToDataset API

Uploads a set of files to a dataset

UCLouvain addFileToDataset API

Uploads a file for a dataset

UCLouvain addGlobusFilesToDataset API

Uploads a Globus file for a dataset

UCLouvain Admin API

The Admin API from UCLouvain — 127 operation(s) for admin.

UCLouvain Batch API

The Batch API from UCLouvain — 3 operation(s) for batch.

UCLouvain Builtin Users API

The Builtin Users API from UCLouvain — 4 operation(s) for builtin users.

UCLouvain Datasetfields API

The Datasetfields API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for datasetfields.

UCLouvain Datasets API

The Datasets API from UCLouvain — 94 operation(s) for datasets.

UCLouvain Datatags API

The Datatags API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for datatags.

UCLouvain DataverseFeaturedItems API

The DataverseFeaturedItems API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for dataversefeatureditems.

UCLouvain Dataverses API

The Dataverses API from UCLouvain — 40 operation(s) for dataverses.

UCLouvain Edit API

The Edit API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for edit.

UCLouvain ExternalTools API

The ExternalTools API from UCLouvain — 2 operation(s) for externaltools.

UCLouvain Files API

The Files API from UCLouvain — 21 operation(s) for files.

UCLouvain Harvest API

The Harvest API from UCLouvain — 7 operation(s) for harvest.

UCLouvain Inbox API

The Inbox API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for inbox.

UCLouvain Info API

The Info API from UCLouvain — 50 operation(s) for info.

UCLouvain Ingest API

The Ingest API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for ingest.

UCLouvain Licenses API

The Licenses API from UCLouvain — 6 operation(s) for licenses.

UCLouvain Localcontexts API

The Localcontexts API from UCLouvain — 2 operation(s) for localcontexts.

UCLouvain Logout API

The Logout API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for logout.

UCLouvain Mail API

The Mail API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for mail.

UCLouvain Meta API

The Meta API from UCLouvain — 2 operation(s) for meta.

UCLouvain Metadatablocks API

The Metadatablocks API from UCLouvain — 2 operation(s) for metadatablocks.

UCLouvain Mydata API

The Mydata API from UCLouvain — 2 operation(s) for mydata.

UCLouvain Notifications API

The Notifications API from UCLouvain — 8 operation(s) for notifications.

UCLouvain Pids API

The Pids API from UCLouvain — 6 operation(s) for pids.

UCLouvain replaceFilesInDataset API

Replace a file to a dataset

UCLouvain Roles API

The Roles API from UCLouvain — 3 operation(s) for roles.

UCLouvain saveAuxiliaryFileWithVersion API

Save Auxiliary File With Version

UCLouvain Search API

The Search API from UCLouvain — 2 operation(s) for search.

UCLouvain Sendfeedback API

The Sendfeedback API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for sendfeedback.

UCLouvain uploadDatasetLogo API

Uploads a logo for a dataset

UCLouvain Users API

The Users API from UCLouvain — 10 operation(s) for users.

UCLouvain Workflows API

The Workflows API from UCLouvain — 1 operation(s) for workflows.

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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.

Uclouvain Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Uclouvain Context

14 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

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.

UCLouvain API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

UCLouvain API Rules

6 rules · 3 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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 1

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.

Uclouvain Dataset Structure

24 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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.

Uclouvain Search Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Uclouvain Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Uclouvain Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Uclouvain Agentic Access

541 operations · 258 acting · 7 human-in-the-loop

541 operations · 258 acting

AGENTIC

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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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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