University of Barcelona
The University of Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) is a public research university founded in 1450 and based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is ranked #165 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its publicly documented developer/API footprint is limited and primarily centered on library and scholarly infrastructure: the Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona runs DSpace 7.6.6, exposing a public REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint. The university also operates centralized single sign-on (SSO) supporting SAML 2.0 / CAS, and publishes institutional open data through its transparency portal. No central, branded public developer portal or official organization-wide GitHub account was confirmed.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles University of Barcelona the way a machine reads it — 8 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 Barcelona scores 25.7/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 16/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile University of Barcelona
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Barcelona. 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 3
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.
Dipòsit Digital REST API (DSpace 7)
Public DSpace 7.6.6 REST API for the Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona, the institutional repository of teaching, research and institutional output. The API root ad...
Dipòsit Digital OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona. The Identify verb returns the repository name and OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata. Used for har...
UB Centralized SSO (SAML 2.0 / CAS)
Universitat de Barcelona centralized single sign-on (Identificació UB) providing federated authentication for university web applications. Supports SAML 2.0 and CAS protocols. T...
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.
University Of Barcelona 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 1
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 Barcelona — 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
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 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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