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University of Amsterdam

The University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam, UvA) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ranked #43 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is centered on the University Library's open-data program: a Linked Open Data platform (Triply) exposing digitized collections via REST, SPARQL, and GraphQL, plus OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoints for the central catalogue, archival collection descriptions, and the Figshare-backed research data repository. UvA does not publish a unified, key-issuing public developer portal; the confirmed machine-readable interfaces are library/open-data oriented and most institutional/SIS APIs are internal or gated.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles University of Amsterdam the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 17 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 Amsterdam scores 48.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 — 48.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 5.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 University of Amsterdam

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Amsterdam. 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 17

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.

UvA Central Catalogue OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Amsterdam central library catalogue, served via Ex Libris Alma.

UvA Archives Collection Descriptions OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH endpoint exposing archival collection descriptions (EAD) from the University of Amsterdam Library archives.

UvA Research Data Repository OAI-PMH (Figshare)

OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint for the University of Amsterdam research data repository hosted on Figshare, providing dataset metadata for the UvA portal.

University of Amsterdam Accounts API

Account and group management

University of Amsterdam Assets API

File asset management

University of Amsterdam Graphs API

Named graph management

University of Amsterdam Info API

Instance information

University of Amsterdam Jobs API

Data import jobs. Linked data can be uploaded in two ways: **Simple upload** (< 5 MB): Send the file as `multipart/form-data` in the `POST /datasets/{account}/{dataset}/jobs` re...

University of Amsterdam Prefixes API

Global RDF prefix management

University of Amsterdam Search API

Elasticsearch and simple search

University of Amsterdam Services API

Triple store service management

University of Amsterdam SPARQL API

SPARQL query endpoints

Scroll within the panel for all 17 ·

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

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.

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.

University Of Amsterdam Context

15 classes · 14 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.

University of Amsterdam API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of Amsterdam API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

TriplyDB Account

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TriplyDB Dataset

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

University Of Amsterdam Dataset Structure

20 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

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.

University Of Amsterdam Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

University Of Amsterdam Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

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.

University Of Amsterdam Agentic Access

106 operations · 58 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

106 operations · 58 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of Amsterdam — 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

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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