University of Groningen
The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, RUG/UG) is a public research university in Groningen, Netherlands, founded in 1614 and ranked #75 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer/API footprint is centered on research-output and research-data infrastructure: an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint over its Pure CRIS research portal (OpenAIRE CERIF profile), the Elsevier Pure REST web-services API (live but API-key gated), and the shared DataverseNL data repository (Dataverse Native REST API) that serves as the UG default repository for research data and software. The University does not operate a single unified, self-service public developer portal; most institutional, SIS, timetable, and identity APIs are internal or gated. The University also maintains an official GitHub organization publishing open-source research-data and education tools.
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 Groningen the way a machine reads it — 94 machine-readable artifacts across 75 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 Groningen scores 42.2/100 (thin), 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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile University of Groningen
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Groningen. 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 75
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.
UG Research Portal OAI-PMH (Pure)
OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint over the University of Groningen research portal, powered by Elsevier Pure (CRIS). Exposes research-output and CRIS metadata using the OpenA...
iBridges / Python API for iRODS
Open-source Python client libraries and tooling for interacting with iRODS research-data-management storage, published by the official University of Groningen Centre for Informa...
University of Groningen Access API
The Access API from University of Groningen — 23 operation(s) for access.
University of Groningen activity API
The activity API from University of Groningen — 39 operation(s) for activity.
University of Groningen addFilesToDataset API
Uploads a set of files to a dataset
University of Groningen addFileToDataset API
Uploads a file for a dataset
University of Groningen addGlobusFilesToDataset API
Uploads a Globus file for a dataset
University of Groningen Admin API
The Admin API from University of Groningen — 127 operation(s) for admin.
University of Groningen application API
The application API from University of Groningen — 36 operation(s) for application.
University of Groningen authorCollaboration API
The authorCollaboration API from University of Groningen — 9 operation(s) for authorcollaboration.
University of Groningen award API
The award API from University of Groningen — 37 operation(s) for award.
University of Groningen Batch API
The Batch API from University of Groningen — 3 operation(s) for batch.
University of Groningen Builtin Users API
The Builtin Users API from University of Groningen — 4 operation(s) for builtin users.
University of Groningen classificationScheme API
The classificationScheme API from University of Groningen — 7 operation(s) for classificationscheme.
University of Groningen concept API
The concept API from University of Groningen — 4 operation(s) for concept.
University of Groningen conferenceSeries API
The conferenceSeries API from University of Groningen — 14 operation(s) for conferenceseries.
University of Groningen contract API
The contract API from University of Groningen — 26 operation(s) for contract.
University of Groningen course API
The course API from University of Groningen — 27 operation(s) for course.
University of Groningen dataSet API
The dataSet API from University of Groningen — 30 operation(s) for dataset.
University of Groningen Datasetfields API
The Datasetfields API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for datasetfields.
University of Groningen Datasets API
The Datasets API from University of Groningen — 101 operation(s) for datasets.
University of Groningen Datatags API
The Datatags API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for datatags.
University of Groningen DataverseFeaturedItems API
The DataverseFeaturedItems API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for dataversefeatureditems.
University of Groningen Dataverses API
The Dataverses API from University of Groningen — 43 operation(s) for dataverses.
University of Groningen Edit API
The Edit API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for edit.
University of Groningen education API
The education API from University of Groningen — 14 operation(s) for education.
University of Groningen equipment API
The equipment API from University of Groningen — 28 operation(s) for equipment.
University of Groningen ethicalReview API
The ethicalReview API from University of Groningen — 22 operation(s) for ethicalreview.
University of Groningen event API
The event API from University of Groningen — 22 operation(s) for event.
University of Groningen externalOrganization API
The externalOrganization API from University of Groningen — 29 operation(s) for externalorganization.
University of Groningen externalPerson API
The externalPerson API from University of Groningen — 22 operation(s) for externalperson.
University of Groningen ExternalTools API
The ExternalTools API from University of Groningen — 2 operation(s) for externaltools.
University of Groningen Files API
The Files API from University of Groningen — 21 operation(s) for files.
University of Groningen fingerprint API
The fingerprint API from University of Groningen — 3 operation(s) for fingerprint.
University of Groningen fundingOpportunity API
The fundingOpportunity API from University of Groningen — 21 operation(s) for fundingopportunity.
University of Groningen Harvest API
The Harvest API from University of Groningen — 7 operation(s) for harvest.
University of Groningen impact API
The impact API from University of Groningen — 31 operation(s) for impact.
University of Groningen Inbox API
The Inbox API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for inbox.
University of Groningen Info API
The Info API from University of Groningen — 50 operation(s) for info.
University of Groningen Ingest API
The Ingest API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for ingest.
University of Groningen journal API
The journal API from University of Groningen — 22 operation(s) for journal.
University of Groningen keywordGroupConfiguration API
The keywordGroupConfiguration API from University of Groningen — 7 operation(s) for keywordgroupconfiguration.
University of Groningen Licenses API
The Licenses API from University of Groningen — 6 operation(s) for licenses.
University of Groningen Localcontexts API
The Localcontexts API from University of Groningen — 2 operation(s) for localcontexts.
University of Groningen Logout API
The Logout API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for logout.
University of Groningen Mail API
The Mail API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for mail.
University of Groningen Meta API
The Meta API from University of Groningen — 2 operation(s) for meta.
University of Groningen Metadatablocks API
The Metadatablocks API from University of Groningen — 2 operation(s) for metadatablocks.
University of Groningen milestone API
The milestone API from University of Groningen — 24 operation(s) for milestone.
University of Groningen Mydata API
The Mydata API from University of Groningen — 2 operation(s) for mydata.
University of Groningen Notifications API
The Notifications API from University of Groningen — 8 operation(s) for notifications.
University of Groningen organization API
The organization API from University of Groningen — 34 operation(s) for organization.
University of Groningen person API
The person API from University of Groningen — 58 operation(s) for person.
University of Groningen personExpertise API
The personExpertise API from University of Groningen — 7 operation(s) for personexpertise.
University of Groningen Pids API
The Pids API from University of Groningen — 6 operation(s) for pids.
University of Groningen pressMedia API
The pressMedia API from University of Groningen — 24 operation(s) for pressmedia.
University of Groningen prize API
The prize API from University of Groningen — 29 operation(s) for prize.
University of Groningen project API
The project API from University of Groningen — 33 operation(s) for project.
University of Groningen publisher API
The publisher API from University of Groningen — 18 operation(s) for publisher.
University of Groningen replaceFilesInDataset API
Replace a file to a dataset
University of Groningen researchOutput API
The researchOutput API from University of Groningen — 67 operation(s) for researchoutput.
University of Groningen role API
The role API from University of Groningen — 2 operation(s) for role.
University of Groningen Roles API
The Roles API from University of Groningen — 3 operation(s) for roles.
University of Groningen saveAuxiliaryFileWithVersion API
Save Auxiliary File With Version
University of Groningen Search API
The Search API from University of Groningen — 2 operation(s) for search.
University of Groningen semester API
The semester API from University of Groningen — 8 operation(s) for semester.
University of Groningen Sendfeedback API
The Sendfeedback API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for sendfeedback.
University of Groningen specialization API
The specialization API from University of Groningen — 8 operation(s) for specialization.
University of Groningen studentProject API
The studentProject API from University of Groningen — 26 operation(s) for studentproject.
University of Groningen studentThesis API
The studentThesis API from University of Groningen — 26 operation(s) for studentthesis.
University of Groningen thesaurus API
The thesaurus API from University of Groningen — 5 operation(s) for thesaurus.
University of Groningen uploadDatasetLogo API
Uploads a logo for a dataset
University of Groningen user API
The user API from University of Groningen — 7 operation(s) for user.
University of Groningen Users API
The Users API from University of Groningen — 10 operation(s) for users.
University of Groningen Workflows API
The Workflows API from University of Groningen — 1 operation(s) for workflows.
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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 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 Groningen 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 Groningen API Rules
SPECTRALUniversity of Groningen 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 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.
University Of Groningen Activity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Groningen Datafile Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Groningen Dataset 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 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 Groningen — 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.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
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 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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