University of Calgary
The University of Calgary is a public research university in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ranked #198 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint centers on research and scholarly infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal: the Space Remote Sensing (SRS) group operates a documented RESTful API at api.phys.ucalgary.ca and the related AuroraX auroral-science API at api.aurorax.space, with Python and IDL client libraries. The institutional repository PRISM runs on DSpace 8.3 (REST API plus OAI-PMH) and the PRISM research-data repository is hosted on the Borealis Dataverse platform, which exposes a public Dataverse REST API. The university also maintains a GitHub organization and a library guide cataloging third-party scholarly APIs.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles University of Calgary the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 47.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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.
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 16
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.
PRISM Institutional Repository (DSpace)
PRISM is the University of Calgary's institutional repository, running on DSpace 8.3 (now served from ucalgary.scholaris.ca). It exposes the standard DSpace REST API for program...
PRISM Research Data Repository (Borealis Dataverse)
The University of Calgary's PRISM research-data repository is a Dataverse collection hosted on the Borealis (Canadian Dataverse) platform, exposing the public Dataverse REST API...
University of Calgary Application.wadl API
The Application.wadl API from University of Calgary — 2 operation(s) for application.wadl.
University of Calgary Auroral Transport Model (ATM) API
Endpoints to utilize the Auroral Transport Model
University of Calgary 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 Availability API
Retrieve information about data in the database
University of Calgary Conjunction Search API
Search for conjunctions between multiple sets of data sources
University of Calgary Data Distribution API
Endpoints supporting data distribution
University of Calgary Data Products Search API
Search for data products
University of Calgary Data Sources API
Interact with data sources
University of Calgary Ephemeris Search API
Search ephemeris records
University of Calgary Manage Data API
Operations relating to managing ephemeris and data products data
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 Utils API
Various utilities
Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·
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 Calgary 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.
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
SPECTRALUniversity of Calgary API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
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 Data Source Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Calgary Dataset Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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 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.
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.
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.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
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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