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Utrecht University

Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht) is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands, ranked #105 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is centered on open research infrastructure rather than a formal developer portal: the Utrecht University Library runs a DSpace institutional repository exposing publication metadata via OAI-PMH, the university maintains a large public GitHub organization (UtrechtUniversity) that publishes open-source research software, and it develops Yoda, an iRODS-based research data management platform. There is no single consolidated, self-service API developer portal; most administrative and identity systems are gated behind institutional SolisID/SSO.

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 Utrecht University the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — Utrecht University scores 45.7/100 (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 — 45.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.5 / 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 Utrecht University

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Utrecht University. 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 21

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.

Utrecht University Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the Utrecht University Library DSpace institutional repository, exposing publication and resource metadata of Utrecht University and UM...

Utrecht University admin API

The admin API from Utrecht University — 1 operation(s) for admin.

Utrecht University browse API

The browse API from Utrecht University — 4 operation(s) for browse.

Utrecht University data_access_token API

The data_access_token API from Utrecht University — 4 operation(s) for data_access_token.

Utrecht University datarequest API

The datarequest API from Utrecht University — 34 operation(s) for datarequest.

Utrecht University folder API

The folder API from Utrecht University — 7 operation(s) for folder.

Utrecht University groups API

The groups API from Utrecht University — 15 operation(s) for groups.

Utrecht University meta API

The meta API from Utrecht University — 2 operation(s) for meta.

Utrecht University meta_form API

The meta_form API from Utrecht University — 2 operation(s) for meta_form.

Utrecht University notifications API

The notifications API from Utrecht University — 3 operation(s) for notifications.

Utrecht University provenance API

The provenance API from Utrecht University — 1 operation(s) for provenance.

Utrecht University publication_troubleshoot API

The publication_troubleshoot API from Utrecht University — 1 operation(s) for publication_troubleshoot.

Utrecht University research API

The research API from Utrecht University — 13 operation(s) for research.

Utrecht University revisions API

The revisions API from Utrecht University — 3 operation(s) for revisions.

Utrecht University schema API

The schema API from Utrecht University — 1 operation(s) for schema.

Utrecht University schema_transformation API

The schema_transformation API from Utrecht University — 1 operation(s) for schema_transformation.

Utrecht University settings API

The settings API from Utrecht University — 2 operation(s) for settings.

Utrecht University stats API

The stats API from Utrecht University — 4 operation(s) for stats.

Utrecht University vault API

The vault API from Utrecht University — 16 operation(s) for vault.

Utrecht University vault_archive API

The vault_archive API from Utrecht University — 3 operation(s) for vault_archive.

Utrecht University vault_deaccession API

The vault_deaccession API from Utrecht University — 4 operation(s) for vault_deaccession.

Scroll within the panel for all 21 ·

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.

Utrecht Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Utrecht Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Utrecht Context

19 classes · 3 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.

Utrecht University API Rules

4 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Utrecht University API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Yoda API Error Result

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Yoda API Result

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Utrecht Yoda Error Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Utrecht Yoda Result Structure

3 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 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.

Utrecht Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Utrecht Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Utrecht Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Utrecht Agentic Access

121 operations · 121 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

121 operations · 121 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Utrecht University — 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

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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