University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland, founded in 1495 and one of the four ancient universities of Scotland. Its programmable footprint is small, real, and almost entirely operated by somebody else. The University publishes NO institution-operated API contract: there is no api.abdn.ac.uk, no developer.abdn.ac.uk, no data.abdn.ac.uk, no open data portal, no public course, timetable or student-information-system API, no llms.txt and no sitemap.xml, and its verified GitHub organization (github.com/uofa) holds seventeen repositories of which every single one is a fork. What it does operate in machine-readable form is its identity estate: a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, entityID https://shibserv.abdn.ac.uk/shibboleth, scope abdn.ac.uk, registered in the Jisc UK Access Management Federation and served as signed metadata through the federation MDQ service and directly from shibserv2.abdn.ac.uk, plus a Microsoft Entra ID tenant (8c2b19ad-5f9c-49d4-9077-3ec3cfc52b3f) with live OIDC discovery and WS-Federation metadata. Everything else that looks like an Aberdeen API is a tenancy. AURA, the Aberdeen University Research Archive, runs DSpace 8.1 and exposes a HATEOAS REST API and a thirteen-format OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint — but aura.abdn.ac.uk CNAMEs to aura.abdn-lb.is.ed.ac.uk and resolves into University of Edinburgh Information Services address space, so the deployment is Edinburgh's and the software is DSpace's. The research portal at abdn.elsevierpure.com is Elsevier Pure; it serves a second OAI-PMH repository and a publicly readable 1.3MB openapi.yaml whose own info.title is "Pure API" and whose contact is pure-support@elsevier.com — that contract is Elsevier's and is deliberately not held under this slug. MyAberdeen is Blackboard Learn and library discovery is Ex Libris Primo. The University is a Crossref member (12669, prefixes 10.57064 and 10.57132) and a DataCite member (HUGZ) operating the registered institutional repository BL.ABDN. Recorded honestly: one institution-operated surface class, five tenancies, three registry memberships, and zero API contracts of its own.
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 University of Aberdeen the way a machine reads it — 16 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 Aberdeen scores 27.3/100 (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 University of Aberdeen
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Aberdeen. 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 10
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.
Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)
The University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://shibserv.abdn.ac.uk/shibboleth, asserting shibmd:Scope abdn.ac.uk. Its entity descriptor is published as sign...
Microsoft Entra ID tenant (institutional identity)
The University's Microsoft Entra ID tenant, 8c2b19ad-5f9c-49d4-9077-3ec3cfc52b3f, resolvable from the abdn.ac.uk domain name. It publishes a live OpenID Connect discovery docume...
AURA DSpace REST API (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)
The Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA) runs DSpace 8.1-SNAPSHOT and exposes a public HATEOAS REST API advertising 79 endpoint families — communities, collections, items...
AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)
AURA's OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, repositoryName "Aura", repositoryIdentifier aura.abdn.ac.uk, adminEmail aura-manager@abdn.ac.uk, earliest datestamp 2005-10-10. ListMetadataFormats ...
Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy (research portal, REST + OAI-PMH)
The University's tenancy of Elsevier Pure, its current research information system, published as "The University of Aberdeen Research Portal" at abdn.elsevierpure.com, which CNA...
MyAberdeen — Blackboard Learn tenancy
MyAberdeen, the University's virtual learning environment, is a Blackboard Learn tenancy at abdn.blackboard.com (www.abdn.ac.uk/myaberdeen redirects to it). The Blackboard Learn...
Library discovery — Ex Libris Primo tenancy
Library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at abdn.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with institution view 44ABE_INST:44ABE_VU1. The Primo and Alma REST APIs are Ex Libris products gate...
DataCite membership and registered repository
The University of Aberdeen is a DataCite member — provider symbol HUGZ, memberType consortium_organization, organizationType academicInstitution, country GB, region EMEA — and o...
Crossref membership and DOI prefixes
The University of Aberdeen is Crossref member 12669, located "Aberdeen, United Kingdom", holding DOI prefixes 10.57064 and 10.57132 with 795 DOIs deposited as of 2026-09-01. Rec...
ROR organization registration
The University of Aberdeen is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/016476m91, cross-walked to GRID grid.7107.1, ISNI 0000 0004 1936 7291, Wikidata...
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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.
University Of Aberdeen 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.
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.
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 University of Aberdeen — 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 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
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 3
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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