University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1451 and a member of the Russell Group. Its programmable footprint is entirely its own — no part of it was found to be a vendor's contract running under the university's name — but it is small, unadvertised and library-shaped rather than product-shaped. What the institution actually operates and runs itself, verified live on 2026-08-30, is the Enlighten repository estate on its own EPrints deployment: three OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoints (Publications, Research Data and Theses, the last of which was not previously catalogued) and an anonymous read REST interface over the same repositories that the university does not describe anywhere. Alongside them it operates a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider scoped gla.ac.uk and registered in the UK Access Management Federation, which by volume and maintenance is the institution's largest machine-readable artifact and is a login federation rather than a data API. It mints its own DataCite DOIs under prefix 10.5525 and is Crossref member 21131. Two further surfaces are live on Glasgow hosts but run a third party's contract — the self-hosted Moodle VLE's LTI 1.3 platform endpoints and the library's Innovative Interfaces Sierra API, both credentialed. Its discovery layer and its research guides are vendor tenancies on OCLC WorldCat and Springshare LibGuides, recorded here as tenant relationships and deliberately not credited to the university. There is no central developer portal, no API key issuance, no changelog, no status page and no developer support channel anywhere on gla.ac.uk.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles University of Glasgow the way a machine reads it — 15 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 Glasgow scores 32.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 21/100 (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.
Kin Score
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How we profile University of Glasgow
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Glasgow. 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.
Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten, the University of Glasgow's EPrints institutional repository of research outputs — journal articles, conference papers, books, bo...
Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten Research Data, the University of Glasgow's research data repository and registry. Records carry DataCite DOIs minted under the uni...
Enlighten Theses OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten Theses, the University of Glasgow's electronic theses repository, with records back to 2012-12-10. Offers oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_...
Enlighten EPrints REST API
An anonymous read interface over the Enlighten repositories that the University of Glasgow does not document or advertise anywhere: a dataset index at /rest/, an object index pe...
Moodle VLE — LTI 1.3 Platform and Web Services
The University of Glasgow's virtual learning environment, self-hosted on Moodle, exposes a live LTI 1.3 Advantage platform surface — a public JWKS at /mod/lti/certs.php carrying...
Library Sierra API (Innovative Interfaces)
The library management system's Sierra REST API, live on the University of Glasgow Library's own catalogue host. /iii/sierra-api/v6/info/token returned 401 on 2026-08-30 — prese...
WorldCat Discovery (OCLC tenancy)
The University of Glasgow Library's discovery layer, operated for the university by OCLC on a Glasgow-scoped WorldCat subdomain. Programmatic access exists but runs entirely on ...
LibGuides (Springshare tenancy)
The library's research guides and databases A-Z, operated for the university by Springshare on a Glasgow-scoped LibGuides subdomain. Any machine access runs on Springshare's Lib...
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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 Glasgow 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.
Examples 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 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for University of Glasgow — 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 5
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
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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