--- name: Kyushu University description: Kyushu University public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kyushu/refs/heads/main/review.yml created: '2026-06-03' modified: '2026-09-01' reviews: - date: '2026-09-01' rating: 3 summary: >- Re-profiled under the API Evangelist university pipeline, which settles WHO OPERATES each surface before saving anything. Kyushu came into this run already clean of the Figshare/Pure misattribution that contaminated this cohort, and the re-profile added the operator axis plus six surfaces the June 2026 pass missed entirely. The one genuinely institution-operated API is the QIR OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint on the university's own catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp — unusual for a Japanese national university, most of which are tenants on NII JAIRO Cloud. All six verbs were exercised live and five protocol error codes were reproduced by deliberately malformed requests. Newly recorded: Kyushu's own SAML 2.0 Shibboleth IdP in GakuNin (registered 2011-02-18, exported to eduGAIN) plus two of its own SAML service providers; a DataCite consortium-organization membership under the Japan Link Center with prefix 10.48708; two Crossref memberships; the ROR record; the Genkai supercomputer estate; and the Elsevier Pure tenancy. That last one is the trap this pipeline exists to catch — the Pure tenant serves a live 827-path OpenAPI titled "Pure API" with contact pure-support@elsevier.com and a relative `/ws/api` server block that makes it invisible to a host-based ownership check. The relationship is recorded; Elsevier's contract is deliberately not saved here. Two real defects were measured rather than smoothed: the IdP's own metadata URL returns HTTP 200 carrying a Shibboleth filesystem error instead of an EntityDescriptor, and the library host intermittently drops connections and succeeds on retry. endpoints: - url: https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh/?verb=Identify status: 200 note: repositoryName "Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR)", protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2006-08-16, adminEmail qir@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp. - url: https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh/?verb=ListMetadataFormats status: 200 note: Four formats advertised — jpcoar, jpcoar_2.0, junii2, oai_dc — though the library documents only JPCOAR as supported. - url: https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh/?verb=ListSets status: 200 note: Seven sets. `hydro` and `qir` are on the wire but absent from the documentation; `papers` is advertised but documented as NOT served over OAI-PMH. - url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml status: 200 note: Contains entityID https://idp.kyushu-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth, scope kyushu-u.ac.jp, plus the ShareAid and REDCap service providers. 5.65 MB aggregate. - url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=show_entity&entityid=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.kyushu-u.ac.jp%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth status: 200 note: eduGAIN confirms registrationAuthority https://www.gakunin.jp, registrationInstant 2011-02-18T07:27:49Z. - url: https://idp.kyushu-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth status: 200 note: DEFECT — 200 but a 115-byte Shibboleth filesystem error, not an EntityDescriptor. A status-code-only check would credit metadata that is not served. - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kyushuu status: 200 note: Consortium organization under jalcco (Japan Link Center), prefix 10.48708, one repository, DOI estimate 79. - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/3044 status: 200 note: Kyushu University, prefix 10.5109, 6,284 DOIs. Member 1036 (Faculty of Mathematics) holds 10.2206 with 1,527 DOIs. - url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/00p4k0j84 status: 200 note: ROR record for Kyushu University / 九州大学. - url: https://kyushu-u.elsevierpure.com/ws/api/openapi.json status: 200 note: NOT SAVED — info.title "Pure API" 5.36.2-1, contact pure-support@elsevier.com, servers [/ws/api], 827 paths. Elsevier's contract on Kyushu's tenant. - url: https://syllabus.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ status: 200 note: Public syllabus search, institution-operated, Fujitsu Campusmate behind it. HTML forms only, no JSON interface. - url: https://genkai-portal.hpc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/user-portal/ status: 200 note: Genkai supercomputer user portal — live login wall. Reservation portal and Open OnDemand also 200 and also gated. - url: https://mirai.kyushu-u.ac.jp/curriculum/generative-ai/ status: 200 note: Institutional generative-AI guidance for teaching and learning; found only via the Japanese surface. - url: https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/llms.txt status: 404 note: No llms.txt. /.well-known/ paths return 403 rather than 404. - url: https://data.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ status: 0 note: No open-data portal; host does not resolve. api.kyushu-u.ac.jp and developer.kyushu-u.ac.jp likewise. - date: '2026-06-03' rating: 2 summary: >- Kyushu University has no central developer portal. The one verifiable public API is the Kyushu University Library's QIR institutional repository OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, which returned a valid Identify response (JPCOAR schema, protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail qir@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp). The library also documents quarterly bulk TSV metadata exports via the Handle system. The Elsevier Pure research portal and the Academic Staff researcher database are public for browsing but document no open API. A legacy DSpace OAI endpoint (qir.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dspace-oai) no longer resolves — it has migrated to the catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp WEKO-based system. No fabricated endpoints; only live-verified URLs are cataloged. endpoints: - url: https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh/?verb=Identify status: 200 note: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify response for QIR; JPCOAR schema. - url: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata status: 200 note: Library metadata-provision page documenting the OAI-PMH base URL and bulk TSV downloads. - url: https://hdl.handle.net/2324/6625737 status: 200 note: Handle for the quarterly QIR repository bulk metadata TSV download. - url: https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/ status: 200 note: Official English homepage; links to research and researcher portals, no developer/API hub. - url: https://kyushu-u.elsevierpure.com/ status: 200 note: Elsevier Pure research portal; public browsing, no documented public API. - url: https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/html/home_en.html status: 200 note: Academic Staff researcher database; searchable UI, no documented API/export. - url: https://github.com/RIIT-KyushuUniv status: 200 note: Research Institute for Information Technology GitHub org (2 repos); institute-level, not central university org. - url: http://qir.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dspace-oai/request status: 0 note: Legacy DSpace OAI-PMH endpoint; connection refused, superseded by catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp. - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kyushu-university/ status: 999 note: LinkedIn school page; returns 999 anti-bot status to automated fetch, URL is standard school slug.