# x-method: derived
# x-source-url: https://www.bu.edu/wp-json/
# Authorship: written by API Evangelist from live, unauthenticated probes on 2026-08-30.
# The structured `method: probed` below is the university pipeline's evidence class for
# the same fact; `x-method` is the authorship class provenance.yml records.
specification: API Evangelist Lifecycle
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Boston University
providerId: boston
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
source: version strings read from live endpoints on 2026-08-30
description: >-
  Versioning and change posture across the surfaces running under bu.edu. Boston University
  publishes no API changelog, no deprecation policy and no version-support window for any of them —
  the versions below are read off the running software, not off a published statement.
surfaces:
  - name: Boston University WordPress REST API
    x-operator: institution
    versioning: URI path segment per namespace
    observed_versions:
      - namespace: bu-alert/v1
      - namespace: bu-access-control/v1
      - namespace: bu-blocks/v1
      - namespace: bu-cmb2-customizations/v1
      - namespace: bu-navigation/v1
      - namespace: bu-prepress/v1
      - namespace: bu-site-manager/v1
      - namespace: bu-slideshow/v1
      - namespace: bu-tts/v1
      - namespace: wp/v2
    source: https://www.bu.edu/wp-json/
    change_tracking: >-
      No API changelog is published. The underlying plugins are open source at
      https://github.com/bu-ist, so their commit history and releases are the only public record of
      change to these namespaces — a repository history is not a deprecation policy, and is recorded
      here as the substitute it is.
    deprecation_policy: none published
    support_window: none published
  - name: OpenBU repository
    x-operator: tenant
    observed_versions:
      - product: DSpace
        version: '7.6'
        source: 'https://open.bu.edu/server/api -> {"dspaceVersion":"DSpace 7.6"}'
      - protocol: OAI-PMH
        version: '2.0'
        source: https://open.bu.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    change_tracking: >-
      Upgrade cadence is Atmire's, not Boston University's. No public statement of the deployment's
      upgrade or deprecation posture was found.
    deprecation_policy: none published
  - name: Blackboard Learn
    x-operator: tenant
    observed_versions:
      - product: Blackboard Learn
        version: 4000.21.0
        build: rel.28+435d029
        source: https://learn.bu.edu/learn/api/public/v1/system/version
    deprecation_policy: >-
      Anthology/Blackboard publishes an API deprecation policy for Learn; it governs the vendor's
      contract, not Boston University's deployment, and is not restated here.
  - name: Boston University Shibboleth Identity Provider
    x-operator: institution
    versioning: SAML 2.0 protocol
    change_tracking: >-
      Metadata is refreshed through InCommon; the InCommon/eduGAIN aggregate is the change record.
      The signing certificate carried in the entity metadata has notBefore 2011-06-21 and notAfter
      2031-06-21.
    source: https://shib.bu.edu/idp/shibboleth
  - name: webapi.bu.edu
    x-operator: institution
    status: dead
    note: >-
      Referenced by Boston University as an internal "WEB APIs" portal. NXDOMAIN as of 2026-08-30 —
      no A record, no CNAME. Recorded so that a future pass does not rediscover it as a lead. Not
      emitted as a pointer.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com