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University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a public research university in Calgary, Alberta and a member of the U15 group of Canadian research universities. It operates no central developer portal and no campus-wide API programme; what it does operate is a small number of genuinely institution-run scientific and scholarly surfaces, and a larger number of vendor-platform tenancies that carry the university's name. The real institution-operated APIs both belong to the Space Remote Sensing group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy: the UCalgary Space Remote Sensing API at api.phys.ucalgary.ca, which self-publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document and includes a conformant HAPI 3.3 Heliophysics time-series server, and the AuroraX auroral-science API at api.aurorax.space, which runs on the same University of Calgary netblock. Alongside them the university runs its own Open Journal Systems installation with a live OAI-PMH endpoint and a keyless MediaWiki Action API for Research Computing Services documentation. Everything else is a tenancy: PRISM, the institutional repository, is a DSpace tenant on the consortial Scholaris service; the research-data collection is a Dataverse collection on Borealis; the academic calendar is on Coursedog; the identity federation is a Microsoft Entra ID tenant. There is no course-catalog, transit, dining or campus-life API, and www.ucalgary.ca serves a soft 404 on every unknown path, so link presence there is never evidence.

agent ready

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 Calgary the way a machine reads it — 54 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 Calgary scores 35.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (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. 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 Calgary Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile University of Calgary

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Calgary. 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 20

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 Calgary Auroral Transport Model (ATM) API

Endpoints to utilize the Auroral Transport Model

University of Calgary Data Distribution API

Endpoints supporting data distribution

University of Calgary SRS HAPI (Heliophysics API) Server

The HAPI 3.3 interface of the UCalgary Space Remote Sensing API — /hapi, /about, /capabilities, /catalog, /info and /data — serving ground-based instrument time series (NORSTAR ...

University of Calgary Operations - SITL API

Endpoints for Scientist In The Loop (SITL) operations

University of Calgary Real-Time Data API

Endpoints providing real-time data streams

University of Calgary Utilities API

Various helper endpoints

University of Calgary AuroraX Application.wadl API

The WADL service-description endpoints exposed by the AuroraX API.

University of Calgary AuroraX Authenticate API

Authenticate via email and password to get an Access Token. Use your API Key if you are building software without user interaction to run against the API.

University of Calgary AuroraX Availability API

Retrieve information about data in the database

University of Calgary AuroraX Conjunction Search API

Search for conjunctions between multiple sets of data sources

University of Calgary AuroraX Manage Data API

Operations relating to managing ephemeris and data products data

University of Calgary Journal Hosting (OJS) OAI-PMH

The university's own Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.10 installation, hosting UCalgary scholarly journals and exposing a live OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint under repositoryName "Un...

University of Calgary Research Computing Services Wiki API

RCSWiki, the documentation platform for University of Calgary Advanced Research Computing, runs MediaWiki 1.43.3 on university infrastructure with the MediaWiki Action API openl...

PRISM Institutional Repository (DSpace on Scholaris)

PRISM is the University of Calgary's institutional repository — the university's content, the university's DOIs, the university's open-access mandate — but it is no longer run b...

PRISM Research Data Repository (Borealis Dataverse)

The University of Calgary's research-data collection is a Dataverse collection on Borealis, the national Canadian Dataverse repository operated by Scholars Portal. The data and ...

University of Calgary Identity Federation (SAML 2.0 / OpenID Connect)

The ucalgary.ca single-sign-on identity provider, run as a Microsoft Entra ID tenant. It publishes signed SAML 2.0 federation metadata and an OpenID Connect discovery document, ...

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Open Collections 15

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).

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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.

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 Calgary Context

23 classes · 2 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 Calgary API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of Calgary API Rules

6 rules · 2 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

DataSource

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dataset

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Observatory

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

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 Calgary Dataset Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

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 3

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 Calgary Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

University Of Calgary Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

University Of Calgary Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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 Calgary Agentic Access

67 operations · 38 acting

67 operations · 38 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of Calgary — 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

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

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

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of University of Calgary, 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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