University of Barcelona
The University of Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) is a public research university founded in 1450 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ranked #165 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UB operates no central developer portal, no public API program and no confirmed organization-wide GitHub account, and its main web estate at www.ub.edu sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge that returns HTTP 403 to any automated client. What it does operate is a genuine, machine-readable institutional footprint that is easy to miss because none of it is marketed as an API: a SAML 2.0 identity provider published through RedIRIS SIR into eduGAIN with the ub.edu attribute scope; an LTI 1.3 Advantage tool platform on its self-hosted Moodle at campusvirtual.ub.edu, with a live JWKS and token endpoint; an OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider over 100 journal sets at revistes.ub.edu; a DSpace 7.6.6 repository at diposit.ub.edu that was live in June 2026 and returned 503 across every probe on 2026-09-01; and a Crossref membership for the university press. Its research-data repository and library discovery layer are tenancies on consortium and vendor platforms operated by CSUC and Ex Libris, not UB engineering, and are recorded here as relationships rather than as UB contracts.
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 — 15 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 Barcelona scores 24.4/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 5/100 (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 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 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.
UB SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN)
The University of Barcelona's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, published as a signed EntityDescriptor through RedIRIS SIR — the Spanish academic identity federation — and carried...
Campus Virtual UB (Moodle) — LTI 1.3 Advantage platform and Web Services
UB's self-hosted Moodle learning platform on the university's own host. It acts as an LTI 1.3 tool platform: the JWKS at /mod/lti/certs.php serves a live RS256 public key set an...
Revistes Científiques de la UB (OJS) — OAI-PMH 2.0
Open Journal Systems platform self-hosted by UB at revistes.ub.edu, publishing the university's scholarly journals. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider answers Identify, ListSets and ...
UB Centralized SSO (Identificació UB, SAML 2.0 / CAS)
Universitat de Barcelona centralized single sign-on providing federated authentication for university web applications, on UB's own host. The SAML2 SSOService endpoint is confir...
Dipòsit Digital REST API (DSpace 7)
DSpace 7.6.6 REST API for the Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona, UB's institutional repository of teaching, research and institutional output, on UB's own host. The...
Dipòsit Digital OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona, used for harvesting into national aggregators and the CRAI discovery layer. The Iden...
CORA Repositori de Dades de Recerca — Universitat de Barcelona collection
UB's named research-data collection on CORA RDR, the Dataverse 6.10.1 instance operated by CSUC (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) for the Catalan university syste...
Cercabib — CRAI library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE, view 34CSUC_UB)
The CRAI library discovery layer for UB, delivered on Ex Libris Primo VE under the CSUC shared Alma tenancy. The UB view is 34CSUC_UB:VU1 and it resolves on a ub.edu hostname, b...
Crossref membership — Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona (member 17854)
The University of Barcelona press is a Crossref member in its own right: member id 17854, DOI prefixes 10.1344 and 10.32869, 10,561 registered DOIs at probe time. Crossref DOI r...
ROR registration — Universitat de Barcelona (021018s57)
The University of Barcelona's entry in the Research Organization Registry. ROR id https://ror.org/021018s57, display name "Universitat de Barcelona", country ES, linking to http...
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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 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 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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