University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890. It operates no central developer portal and publishes no institution-wide API programme, and the one gated portal it does run — an Azure API Management front end for Azure OpenAI at ai-api-portal-dev.uchicago.edu — serves a certificate that does not match its own hostname and, with verification disabled, answers a bare Azure Application Gateway 404, so it is not a public surface. What it does operate is unusually real for a university, because UChicago is a genuine PRODUCER of open-source data infrastructure rather than only a buyer of it: the Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS, github.com/uc-cdis) authors the Gen3 data-commons platform and runs its own reference commons at gen3.datacommons.io, a domain registered to CDIS at the University. The OpenAPI documents in this repository are CTDS's own contracts (info.contact cdis@uchicago.edu, termsOfService cdis.uchicago.edu), not a vendor's running under the institution's name. Alongside that the institution operates a Shibboleth identity provider whose InCommon SAML metadata is public (entityID urn:mace:incommon:uchicago.edu), Knowledge@UChicago on self-hosted InvenioRDM 13.1 with a live REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 responder advertising DataCite metadata, the OCHRE ancient-studies data service, and IIIF Presentation 3.0 and Image 2.0 endpoints for library digital collections. Course catalog and registrar data remain behind PeopleSoft authentication, the VuFind catalog API is deployed with its API permissions denied, and there is no open-data portal — data.uchicago.edu is the Office of Institutional Analysis's reporting site, not a machine-readable catalog.
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 Chicago the way a machine reads it — 102 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 Chicago scores 46.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 33/100 (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
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How we profile University of Chicago
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Chicago. 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 45
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 Chicago Shibboleth Identity Provider — InCommon SAML Metadata
The University of Chicago's Shibboleth identity provider publishes its SAML 2.0 metadata document publicly. entityID urn:mace:incommon:uchicago.edu places the institution in the...
Knowledge@UChicago OAI-PMH Endpoint
OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the University of Chicago institutional repository. ?verb=Identify returns repositoryName "UChicago Knowledge", protocolVersion 2.0, granular...
OCHRE Data Service API
OCHRE (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment) is the University of Chicago's item-level research database for ancient studies, maintained by the OCHRE Data Service...
University of Chicago Library IIIF Presentation API
IIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests for the University of Chicago Library's digital collections, addressed by ARK (naming authority 61001) at iiif-collection.lib.uchicago.edu/ob...
University of Chicago Library IIIF Image API
IIIF Image API Level 2 service for the University of Chicago Library, running Loris. The service root self-identifies: "This is Loris, an image server that implements the IIIF I...
University of Chicago Library Catalog API (VuFind)
The Library's discovery layer is VuFind, self-hosted at catalog.lib.uchicago.edu and forked in the institution's own GitHub organization (uchicago-library/vufind). VuFind ships ...
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — admin/user API
The admin/user API from University of Chicago — 4 operation(s) for admin/user.
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — alias API
create an alias for an entity stored in an external system managed by some other authority
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — bulk API
bulk endpoints
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — bundle API
Bundle endpoints.
University of Chicago Gen3 Peregrine — core metadata API
The core metadata API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for core metadata.
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/api API
API Credentials
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials API
Access credentials
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/cdis API
Deprecated! Use credentials/api
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/google API
Google Credentials
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — credentials/{provider} API
Other provider credentials
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — data API
Generate signed URLs
University of Chicago Gen3 Peregrine — datasets API
The datasets API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for datasets.
University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — dictionary API
The dictionary API from University of Chicago — 8 operation(s) for dictionary.
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — DOS API
Data Object Service Retrieval Endpoints
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — DRS API
Data Repository Service Retrieval Endpoints
University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — dry run API
The dry run API from University of Chicago — 12 operation(s) for dry run.
University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — entity API
The entity API from University of Chicago — 7 operation(s) for entity.
University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — export API
The export API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for export.
University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — file API
The file API from University of Chicago — 5 operation(s) for file.
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — global API
Search for an alias or index, potentially even a distributed search.
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — google API
Google functionality
University of Chicago Gen3 Peregrine — graphql API
GraphQL Queries
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — GUID API
Endpoints for generation of Gen3 GUIDs
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — index API
Associate a file (object) with a unique id, and store some basic metadata.
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — keys API
Get public keys used to validate JWTs issued by fence
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — link API
Link access identities
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — login API
The login API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for login.
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — logout API
Log out the current user
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — oauth2 API
Authorization and token management
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — OIDC API
The OIDC API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for oidc.
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — privacy-policy API
The privacy-policy API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for privacy-policy.
University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — program API
The program API from University of Chicago — 2 operation(s) for program.
University of Chicago Gen3 Sheepdog — project API
The project API from University of Chicago — 6 operation(s) for project.
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — query API
query endpoints
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — register API
The register API from University of Chicago — 1 operation(s) for register.
University of Chicago Gen3 indexd — system API
System endpoints
University of Chicago Gen3 Fence — user API
User information
University of Chicago Communities API
Repository communities (collections).
University of Chicago Records API
Published repository records.
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Open Collections 38
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user alias API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user bulk API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user bundle API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user core metadata API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user credentials/api API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user credentials API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user credentials/cdis API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user data API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user datasets API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user dictionary API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user DOS API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user DRS API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user dry run API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user entity API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user export API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user file API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user global API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user google API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user graphql API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user GUID API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user index API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user keys API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user link API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user login API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user logout API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user oauth2 API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user OIDC API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user privacy-policy API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user program API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user project API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user query API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user register API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/user system API
OPEN COLLECTIONFence OpenAPI Specification admin/ user API
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GraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
University of Chicago GraphQL API
Open-source data platform maintained by the University of Chicago Center for Translational Data Science. Gen3 auto-generates FAIR APIs (data submission, GraphQL/Peregrine query,...
GRAPHQLPricing 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 Chicago 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 Chicago API Rules
SPECTRALUniversity of Chicago 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 Chicago Indexd Record Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Chicago Sheepdog Program Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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 Chicago — 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 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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