University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha) is a public research university in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. It operates no public developer programme, no developer portal and no published, self-serve API: everything machine-readable it runs is infrastructure for a purpose other than being an API product. What is genuinely institution-operated and genuinely readable is narrow — the UC Research Repository (a self-hosted DSpace 7 on ir.canterbury.ac.nz) serves a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface with thirteen metadata formats, and three Shibboleth Service Providers on canterbury.ac.nz hosts publish valid SAML 2.0 metadata as members of Tuakiri, the New Zealand Access Federation. The rest is gated rather than absent: a CA API Gateway 9.0 answers on api.canterbury.ac.nz with no routed public service, a self-hosted GitLab serves an authenticated v4 API to the College of Engineering, and the DSpace REST API sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge. The institution's research data repository and its identity provider are both tenancies on other people's platforms — Figshare and REANNZ's Tuakiri Hosted IdP respectively — and are recorded here as relationships, not as University of Canterbury contracts. This profile was corrected on 2026-08-30: eleven entries previously listed under this institution were a single Figshare API v2 contract, split by tag, and have been removed.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles University of Canterbury the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 Canterbury scores 24.1/100 (emerging), 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
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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile University of Canterbury
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Canterbury. 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 8
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.
UC Research Repository OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the UC Research Repository, a self-hosted DSpace 7 institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research outputs. Verified...
UC Research Repository DSpace REST API
DSpace 7 REST API backing the UC Research Repository, providing programmatic access to communities, collections and items. Re-probed 2026-08-30 with a browser User-Agent: the AP...
UC API Gateway
An institution-operated enterprise API gateway on the University of Canterbury's own registrable domain. Discovered 2026-08-30. Every probed path (/, /ping, /v1, /swagger) retur...
UC Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Service Provider Metadata
Three Shibboleth Service Providers run on University of Canterbury hosts and publish machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata at the standard Shibboleth.sso/Metadata location — LEARN ...
LEARN LTI 1.3 Platform (Moodle)
LEARN, the University of Canterbury's self-hosted Moodle learning management system, acts as an LTI 1.3 platform and serves a live JSON Web Key Set from the institution's own ho...
UC Engineering GitLab API
Self-hosted GitLab instance operated by the University of Canterbury College of Engineering on the institution's own domain. Re-verified 2026-08-30: the web application redirect...
Tuakiri Hosted Identity Provider for canterbury.ac.nz
The University of Canterbury's SAML 2.0 Identity Provider is registered in the signed Tuakiri federation metadata aggregate with entityID https://idp.canterbury.ac.nz/idp/shibbo...
Canterbury Figshare Research Data Repository (tenant)
canterbury.figshare.com is the University of Canterbury's institutional research data repository, a tenancy on Figshare's platform. The data, the DOIs and the curation are the i...
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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 Canterbury 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.
Security Posture 1
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 Canterbury — 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.
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
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 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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