University of Otago
The University of Otago — Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou — is New Zealand's oldest university, founded in 1869 in Dunedin and registered as https://ror.org/01jmxt844. It operates no public developer program: there is no developer portal, no API reference, no open-data portal and no OpenAPI published under any otago.ac.nz path found in this run. Exactly ONE machine-readable surface is both on Otago's own domain and operated by Otago — the self-hosted WordPress REST API behind its AI guidance site at artificialintelligence.otago.ac.nz, which serves a 144-route discovery document and published content keyless. Everything else that carries an Otago name is a vendor contract running under it: OUR Archive at ourarchive.otago.ac.nz is an Ex Libris / Clarivate Esploro tenancy (the hostname is Otago's, the CNAME goes to ap02.esploro.exlibrisgroup.com) whose OAI-PMH endpoint is deployed but refuses public harvesting with error_code 21; blackboard.otago.ac.nz is an Anthology Blackboard Learn tenancy running release 4000.21.0 whose REST API answers 401 to everything but a version check; and Otago's SAML 2.0 identity is published in the signed Tuakiri NZ Access Federation metadata under entityID https://idp.otago.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth while every one of its SSO bindings actually resolves to REANNZ's Tuakiri Hosted Login service. Otago's scholarly identifier registrations are real and institution-attributed — DataCite provider otagouni with 334 DOIs in OUR Archive, and Crossref member 4843 "University of Otago Library" holding prefix 10.11157 with 2,537 DOIs. This profile is deliberately thin because the footprint is thin, and the surfaces that exist are recorded under the operator that actually runs them.
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 Otago the way a machine reads it — 13 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 Otago scores 29.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 6/100 (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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How we profile University of Otago
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Otago. 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 5
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.
Artificial Intelligence at Otago — WordPress REST API
The University's AI guidance site runs on WordPress that Otago self-hosts on its own domain behind Cloudflare, and it exposes the full WordPress REST API without credentials. Co...
OUR Archive OAI-PMH Metadata — Ex Libris Esploro tenancy
OUR Archive (Otago University Research Archive) is the University's institutional research repository. The DATA, the DOIs and the curation are Otago's; the CONTRACT and the engi...
Blackboard Learn — University of Otago tenancy
The University's learning management system runs on Anthology Blackboard Learn at blackboard.otago.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to otago.blackboard.com and on to AWS ap-southeast-2. The ...
University of Otago Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth) — Tuakiri Hosted Login
Otago's SAML 2.0 identity is published as a complete IDPSSODescriptor in the SIGNED Tuakiri NZ Access Federation metadata aggregate, under entityID https://idp.otago.ac.nz/idp/s...
Otago Scholarly Identifier Registrations (DataCite + Crossref)
Otago's persistent-identifier registrations, readable through each registry's public REST API. Confirmed live 2026-08-30. DataCite carries provider `otagouni` — "University of O...
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 Otago 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.
University Of Otago Context
JSON-LDExamples 2
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 Otago — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
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 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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