---
aid: charles
name: Charles University
description: >-
  Charles University (Univerzita Karlova), founded in 1348 in Prague, is the
  largest and oldest university in Czechia and is ranked #246 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is limited and
  primarily academic-infrastructure oriented: institutional DSpace repositories
  expose standards-based OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoints, and the Institute
  of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
  operates the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ platform which publishes documented public REST
  web services for natural-language processing. Core student-facing systems such
  as the Study Information System (SIS) and single sign-on are gated behind
  eduID.cz / Shibboleth (SAML) authentication and do not publish an open API.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/charles/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Natural Language Processing
  - Czechia
  - Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: charles:digital-repository-oai
    name: CU Digital Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      The Charles University Digital Repository (Digitalni repozitar UK), a
      DSpace-based institutional repository, exposes a public OAI-PMH 2.0
      endpoint for metadata harvesting of digitized collections including maps,
      historical legal texts, and study literature.
    humanURL: https://dspace.cuni.cz/
    baseURL: https://dspace.cuni.cz/oai/request
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Metadata, Research, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dspace.cuni.cz/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/UKUK-Repository-Dept
  - aid: charles:publications-repository-oai
    name: CU Research Publications Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      The Charles University Research Publications Repository is a DSpace-based
      institutional archive where staff and students self-archive research
      outputs. It exposes a public OAI-PMH endpoint for metadata harvesting.
    humanURL: https://publications.cuni.cz/page/about?locale-attribute=en
    baseURL: https://publications.cuni.cz/oai/request
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Metadata, Research, Publications ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://publications.cuni.cz/page/about?locale-attribute=en
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/UKUK-Repository-Dept
  - aid: charles:lindat-translation
    name: LINDAT Machine Translation API
    description: >-
      Public REST API for neural machine translation operated by the Institute
      of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) at Charles University as part of
      the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ research infrastructure.
    humanURL: https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/translation/docs
    baseURL: https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/translation/api/v2
    tags: [ Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, REST, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/translation/docs
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/charles-lindat-translation.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/charles-model-schema.json
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/charles-language-schema.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/charles-post-model-item-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/charles-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/charles-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/charles-context.jsonld
  - aid: charles:lindat-nametag
    name: LINDAT NameTag API
    description: >-
      Public REST API for named-entity recognition and tokenization (NameTag)
      operated by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) at
      Charles University via the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ infrastructure.
    humanURL: https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/nametag/api-reference.php
    baseURL: https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/nametag/api
    tags: [ Natural Language Processing, Named Entity Recognition, REST, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/nametag/api-reference.php
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.cuni.cz/UKEN-1.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/UKUK-Repository-Dept
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/univerzita-karlova/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://uvt.cuni.cz/UVTEN-37.html
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/charles-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/charles-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/charles-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com