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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham is a public research university in Birmingham, United Kingdom, a founding member of the Russell Group and of the Universitas 21 network. It operates no central developer portal, publishes no API programme, issues no API keys, and a subdomain sweep of birmingham.ac.uk and bham.ac.uk found nothing at api., data., developer., opendata., open., dev., portal. or git. The programmable footprint it does have is real but decentralised and departmental, and it sits on the institution's second registrable domain, bham.ac.uk: three EPrints repositories (UBIRA eData, UBIRA eTheses and ePapers) each exposing an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider plus an EPrints REST interface; a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation; a self-hosted GitLab on the BEAR research-computing estate whose /api/v4 project listing answers keyless; and one small open research API from the English Constructicon construction-grammar project in the College of Arts and Law — the only surface here with an OpenAPI description, and that description is ours, not theirs. Three further surfaces that carry the University's name are vendor platforms the institution is a tenant on, recorded as tenancies and not as Birmingham engineering: an Elsevier Pure research portal, an Ex Libris Primo library discovery layer, and an Instructure Canvas VLE.

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 University of Birmingham the way a machine reads it — 23 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 Birmingham scores 32.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
University of Birmingham Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile University of Birmingham

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Birmingham. 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 9

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.

UBIRA eData (EPrints OAI-PMH + REST)

UBIRA eData is the University of Birmingham's own EPrints research-data repository, running on Birmingham infrastructure (edata.bham.ac.uk resolves to 147.188.217.239, the Unive...

UBIRA eTheses (EPrints OAI-PMH)

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham eTheses EPrints repository, holding full-text electronic theses produced by research postgraduates. Id...

ePapers Repository (EPrints OAI-PMH)

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham ePapers EPrints repository, holding open-access working papers, technical reports and other grey liter...

University of Birmingham Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth)

The University's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. The entity descriptor is served directly by IT Services and carries their maintenance history in XML comments; it dec...

BEAR GitLab (self-hosted, /api/v4)

A GitLab instance the University runs itself on the BEAR (Birmingham Environment for Academic Research) estate — gitlab.bham.ac.uk resolves through proxy-vrrp-1.bear.bham.ac.uk ...

English Constructicon API

An open research API from the English Constructicon project, a construction-grammar database built in the College of Arts and Law with the University's Research Software Group a...

Elsevier Pure research portal (Birmingham tenancy)

research.birmingham.ac.uk is the University's research information portal. It is an Elsevier Pure tenancy — the hostname CNAMEs to birmingham-live.elsevierpure.com and on to eu....

FindIt@Bham library discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)

FindIt@Bham is the University's library discovery layer, running on Ex Libris Primo — findit.bham.ac.uk CNAMEs to birmingham.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and on to eu00.primo.exlibri...

Canvas virtual learning environment (Instructure tenancy)

canvas.bham.ac.uk is the University's virtual learning environment, an Instructure Canvas tenancy — the hostname CNAMEs to birmingham-vanity.instructure.com. Canvas ships an LTI...

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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.

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 Birmingham Context

12 classes · 1 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 Birmingham API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of Birmingham API Rules

5 rules · 2 errors · 2 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.

Construction

9 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.

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.

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 Birmingham Authentication

none/saml/bearer · 5 schemes

SECURITY

University Of Birmingham Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · 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 Birmingham Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of Birmingham — 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.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

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

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of University of Birmingham, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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