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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (founded 1209) is a public collegiate research university and Russell Group member whose programmable footprint is unusually real for a university, and is operated in-house by University Information Services (UIS) rather than bought in. Verified institution-operated surfaces: the Lookup/Ibis directory web service, which publishes a first-party OpenAPI 3.0 document at www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/openapi-3.0.yaml (39 paths, byte-identical to the copy held here); an API Gateway on the University's own domain (api.apps.cam.ac.uk) whose developer portal lists ten published APIs — Lookup, University Card, University Photo, University Student, University Human Resources, OAuth2, Raven device statistics, Institutional identifier mapping, Undergraduate Admissions and Staff On Costs — fronted by a live OpenID Connect discovery document; a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider publishing signed IdP metadata; the Apollo institutional repository, self-hosted DSpace 8.1 on Cambridge IP space with a DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint serving eleven metadata formats and minting DataCite DOIs under prefix 10.17863; and the Cambridge Digital Library IIIF Presentation and Image APIs. Honest limits: only the Lookup contract is published as a downloadable machine-readable spec, every gateway API requires registered client credentials before it will answer, and there is no public status page for the API platform. Library discovery (iDiscover, Ex Libris Primo VE) and the research information system (Symplectic Elements) run under Cambridge subdomains but are vendor platforms — they are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Cambridge contracts.

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Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles University of Cambridge the way a machine reads it — 35 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 Cambridge scores 55.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (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 Cambridge Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile University of Cambridge

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

Raven Authentication (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect)

The University's central web authentication service. Raven OAuth2 conforms to OpenID Connect; applications register client credentials to authenticate Cambridge users. An identi...

Cambridge API Gateway (Card / Student / HR)

UIS API Gateway (ALPHA) publishing read-oriented REST APIs — University Card, University Student (CamSIS-sourced), and University Human Resources (CHRIS-sourced). Interactive "t...

Apollo Institutional Repository API (DSpace)

Cambridge's open-access research repository (Apollo) on the DSpace platform, exposing OAI-PMH metadata harvesting and a DSpace REST API. Managed by Cambridge University Library ...

University of Cambridge group API

Methods for querying and manipulating groups. #### The fetch parameter for groups All methods that return groups also accept an optional `fetch` parameter that may be used to re...

University of Cambridge ibis API

Common methods for searching for objects in the Lookup/Ibis database.

University of Cambridge institution API

Methods for querying and manipulating institutions. #### The fetch parameter for institutions All methods that return institutions also accept an optional `fetch` parameter that...

University of Cambridge person API

Methods for querying and manipulating people. #### Notes on the fetch parameter All methods that return people, institutions or groups also accept an optional `fetch` parameter ...

Cambridge Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

The University's Shibboleth identity provider, publishing signed SAML 2.0 IdP metadata at https://shib.raven.cam.ac.uk/shibboleth. The EntityDescriptor carries entityID https://...

Apollo OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint

OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for Apollo, the University's institutional repository, served from Cambridge's own host. Identify returns repositoryName "Apollo - University of...

Cambridge Digital Library IIIF APIs

The Cambridge University Library digital collections platform exposes IIIF Presentation API 2.1 manifests at cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/ and IIIF Image API 2.1 endpoints a...

iDiscover library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE) — TENANT

Cambridge's library discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE. idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk is a CNAME to cam.primo.exlibrisgroup.com -> eu00.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, and the landin...

Symplectic Elements research information system — TENANT

Cambridge's current research information system (CRIS) is Symplectic Elements, reached at elements.admin.cam.ac.uk. The host sits under cam.ac.uk but resolves via CNAME to cam.e...

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Open Collections 5

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 Cambridge Context

22 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 Cambridge API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of Cambridge API Rules

7 rules · 3 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.

Group

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Institution

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Person

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

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 3

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 Cambridge Authentication

http/oauth2/openIdConnect/saml · 3 schemes

SECURITY

University Of Cambridge Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · 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 Cambridge Agentic Access

39 operations

39 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of Cambridge — 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

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

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 2

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 Cambridge, 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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