University of Bologna
The University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna) is the oldest university in the Western world, founded in 1088, and Italy's largest public research university, ranked #133 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It publishes no OpenAPI, runs no developer portal and issues no API keys, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own unibo.it hosts and its own network (137.204.24.0/24), is an unusually deep set of standards-based machine surfaces for a university: a CKAN 2.6.9 open data portal serving the CKAN Action API at dati.unibo.it; four separate live OAI-PMH 2.0 providers run by the AlmaDL digital library — AMS Acta (institutional research repository, EPrints, ten metadata formats including oai_datacite and openaire_oai_dc), AMS Tesi di Dottorato (doctoral theses), AMS Tesi di Laurea (graduate theses) and AlmaDL Journals (Open Journal Systems, 100 open-access journals); a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://shib.unibo.it/idp/shibboleth, published as machine-readable metadata both on its own host and in the IDEM GARR AAI federation aggregate; and a self-hosted Moodle at virtuale.unibo.it exposing a live LTI 1.3 platform surface (JWKS plus an OAuth2 token endpoint) alongside a token-gated Moodle Web Services REST API. Its DataCite registration (provider UYEY, five prefixes, 32,291 DOIs), its Crossref membership (member 32492, prefix 10.60923, 1,170 DOIs) and its ROR identifier 01111rn36 are verifiable from public registry endpoints. Two further surfaces are the university's data on someone else's platform and are recorded as tenancies, not as its contracts: the IRIS research information system at cris.unibo.it CNAMEs to unibo.prod.iris.cineca.it (CINECA), and the AlmaStart library discovery layer at almastart.unibo.it CNAMEs to unibo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com (Ex Libris Primo VE). The university's generative-AI policy is a real governance artifact but exists only on the Italian surface. Administrative, student-record and course-catalogue systems are behind institutional SSO and are not openly documented.
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 Bologna the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 Bologna scores 27.0/100 (thin), 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 Bologna
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Bologna. 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 12
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.
University of Bologna Open Data (CKAN Action API)
Institution-operated CKAN open data portal serving the standard CKAN Action API over University of Bologna datasets. Verified live 2026-09-01 — https://dati.unibo.it/api/3/actio...
AMS Acta Institutional Repository OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting provider for AMS Acta, the AlmaDL institutional research repository, self-hosted on the university's own infrastructure. Verified live 2026-09-01...
AMS Tesi di Dottorato (Doctoral Theses) OAI-PMH
Second, distinct OAI-PMH 2.0 provider run by AlmaDL over AMS Tesi di Dottorato, the university's doctoral thesis repository. Verified live 2026-09-01 — verb=Identify returns 200...
AMS Tesi di Laurea (Graduate Theses) OAI-PMH
Third AlmaDL OAI-PMH 2.0 provider, over AMS Tesi di Laurea, the university's graduate and undergraduate thesis repository. Verified live 2026-09-01 — verb=Identify returns 200 t...
AlmaDL Journals OAI-PMH
Site-wide OAI-PMH 2.0 provider over AlmaDL Journals, the university's open-access journal publishing platform, on its own host journals.unibo.it (atrproxy4.unibo.it, 137.204.24....
UNIBO Shibboleth Identity Provider (IDEM GARR AAI)
Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, published as machine-readable metadata both directly on the university's own host and in the IDEM GARR AAI federation...
Virtuale (Moodle) LTI 1.3 Platform and Web Services
Virtuale is the university's self-hosted Moodle learning management system, on its own host virtuale.unibo.it (frontend-http-azure-01.unibo.it), and it exposes a live LTI 1.3 pl...
IRIS Research Information System (CINECA tenancy)
IRIS is the university's current research information system and publication catalogue, reachable at cris.unibo.it. The host is a vanity name on the university's domain but it i...
AlmaStart Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)
AlmaStart is the University of Bologna library system's discovery layer. The entry point almastart.unibo.it wears the university's domain but CNAMEs to unibo.primo.exlibrisgroup...
DataCite DOI registration (provider UYEY, 32,291 DOIs)
The University of Bologna is a registered DataCite member and DOI registrant — a fact about the institution, not a contract it operates. Verified live 2026-09-01 against the Dat...
Crossref membership (member 32492, prefix 10.60923)
The University of Bologna is a Crossref member and DOI depositor. Verified live 2026-09-01 — https://api.crossref.org/members/32492 returns 200 with primary-name "Alma Mater Stu...
ROR organization identifier 01111rn36
The University of Bologna is registered in the Research Organization Registry with ROR ID https://ror.org/01111rn36, names "University of Bologna" / "Alma Mater Studiorum - Univ...
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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 Bologna 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 Bologna — 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 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
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 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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