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University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, United Kingdom, ranked #105 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is centered on open research infrastructure rather than a single unified developer portal: research data is published through ORDA (the institution's figshare-backed research data repository, which exposes the standard figshare REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint), and research outputs and theses are deposited in the White Rose Research Online (EPrints) and White Rose eTheses Online shared repositories, both of which expose OAI-PMH harvesting interfaces. The University also maintains public GitHub organizations for IT Services and research software engineering. No general-purpose, self-service developer portal for course, timetable, or student-information APIs was found publicly documented.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles University of Sheffield the way a machine reads it — 28 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 Sheffield scores 47.9/100 (developing), 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 47.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile University of Sheffield

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Sheffield. 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 12

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.

White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH

White Rose Research Online (WRRO) is the shared open-access research repository for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, running on EPrints. It exposes an OAI-PMH inte...

White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH

White Rose eTheses Online (WREO) is the shared electronic theses repository for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, running on EPrints. It exposes an OAI-PMH interfac...

University of Sheffield altmetric API

The altmetric API from University of Sheffield — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.

University of Sheffield articles API

The articles API from University of Sheffield — 34 operation(s) for articles.

University of Sheffield authors API

The authors API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for authors.

University of Sheffield collections API

The collections API from University of Sheffield — 21 operation(s) for collections.

University of Sheffield institutions API

The institutions API from University of Sheffield — 20 operation(s) for institutions.

University of Sheffield oauth API

The oauth API from University of Sheffield — 1 operation(s) for oauth.

University of Sheffield other API

The other API from University of Sheffield — 7 operation(s) for other.

University of Sheffield profiles API

The profiles API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for profiles.

University of Sheffield projects API

The projects API from University of Sheffield — 17 operation(s) for projects.

University of Sheffield symplectic API

The symplectic API from University of Sheffield — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

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.

FinOps 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 Sheffield Context

3 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

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 Sheffield API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

University of Sheffield API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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.

Article

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Author

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PublicFile

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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 Sheffield Article Structure

16 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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.

University Of Sheffield Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

University Of Sheffield Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

University Of Sheffield Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

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.

University Of Sheffield Agentic Access

157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

157 operations · 81 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for University of Sheffield — 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 2

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 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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