--- name: Hokkaido University description: Hokkaido University public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hokkaido/refs/heads/main/review.yml created: '2026-06-03' modified: '2026-09-01' reviews: - date: '2026-06-03' rating: 2 summary: >- Hokkaido University exposes a limited, scholarly-infrastructure-only public footprint. The HUSCAP institutional repository and its XML sitemap index are live and machine-readable. The legacy DSpace OAI-PMH endpoint at /dspace-oai/request returns 404 following the repository's December 2025 platform migration, and no replacement OAI-PMH base URL was publicly documented or discoverable at review time; multiple guessed OAI paths on the new system all returned 404. No dedicated developer portal or documented public REST API was found. The github.com/hokkaido org is unrelated to the university and was not cataloged. Only endpoints verified live are asserted; no endpoints were fabricated. endpoints: - url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/ status: 200 note: Official university website (English), confirmed live. - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/ status: 200 note: HUSCAP institutional repository home; migrated to new platform Dec 2025. - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml status: 200 note: Public XML sitemap index, robots.txt-permitted, machine-readable. - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/repo/huscap/all/ status: 200 note: Public repository browse path allowed by robots.txt. - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify status: 404 note: Legacy DSpace OAI-PMH base, no longer resolves post-migration. - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/oai?verb=Identify status: 404 note: Guessed new-system OAI path; not present. - url: https://researchers.general.hokudai.ac.jp/search/index.html?lang=en status: 404 note: Researcher Directory search UI; deep link did not resolve, no documented API. - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hokkaidouni/ status: 200 note: Official LinkedIn school page. - date: '2026-09-01' rating: 3 summary: >- University-pipeline re-profile. The operator axis was settled before anything was saved, and the June 2026 profile turned out to have missed the university's strongest institution-operated surface entirely: Hokkaido University runs its own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider, entityID https://shib-idp01.iic.hokudai.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth, scope hokudai.ac.jp, registered in the GakuNin national academic federation as PI0008JP since 2010-03-16, serving live metadata from its own host under a certificate issued to O=Hokkaido University. Three further hokudai.ac.jp SAML service providers are registered alongside it. Persistent-identifier registrations were verified from the registries themselves: Handle naming authority 2115 (administered from lib.hokudai.ac.jp, updated 2024-06-24) and JaLC DOI prefix 10.14943 (confirmed via the DOI RA resolver and the JaLC API, which names Hokkaido University as publisher). The university is not a DataCite member and its only Crossref membership is departmental. The OAI-PMH regression first noted in June 2026 was re-tested and stands: eighteen candidate paths on the post-migration platform all 404, while IRDB entry 524 confirms the repository is still harvested, so an undocumented endpoint exists. No vendor contract was attributed to the institution, and none needed removing — this repo has never carried an OpenAPI. endpoints: - url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml status: 200 note: GakuNin aggregate, 650 entities, four of them on hokudai.ac.jp hosts. - url: https://aidipigakunin2.oicte.hokudai.ac.jp/saml/saml2/idp/metadata.php status: 200 note: First-party SAML 2.0 IdP metadata served from a Hokkaido University host. - url: https://aidipigakunin2.oicte.hokudai.ac.jp/saml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php status: 200 note: Advertised SingleSignOnService endpoint answers; the IdP is live, not merely registered. - url: https://hdl.handle.net/api/handles/0.NA/2115 status: 200 note: Handle naming authority 2115, admin contacts at lib.hokudai.ac.jp. - url: https://api.japanlinkcenter.org/dois/10.14943/bfhhs.165.l129 status: 200 note: JaLC API returns publisher_list "Hokkaido University" for prefix 10.14943. - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/5618 status: 200 note: Department of Mathematics, prefix 10.14492, 1820 DOIs. Departmental, not institutional. - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=hokkaido status: 200 note: meta.total 0 — no DataCite client. The library states JaLC-only explicitly. - url: https://gakumu.academic.hokudai.ac.jp/Portal/Public/Syllabus/SearchMain.aspx status: 200 note: Public syllabus search, institution-operated, web-only, no machine-readable export. - url: https://syllabus01.academic.hokudai.ac.jp/syllabi/public/syllabus/sylsearch.aspx status: 0 note: Superseded syllabus host no longer resolves. - url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/wp-json/ status: 500 note: 'WordPress REST API explicitly disabled: {"code":"rest_disabled"}.' - url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/repo/huscap/all/oai?verb=Identify status: 404 note: One of eighteen OAI-PMH candidate paths probed on the post-migration platform; all 404. - url: https://irdb.nii.ac.jp/repositorylist?page=10 status: 200 note: IRDB entry 524 lists HUSCAP with prefix 10.14943; IRDB harvests only by OAI-PMH. - url: https://api.hokudai.ac.jp/ status: 0 note: Negative probe. No API gateway. - url: https://developer.hokudai.ac.jp/ status: 0 note: Negative probe. No developer portal. - url: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/.well-known/security.txt status: 404 note: Negative probe. No RFC 9116 security contact.