---
aid: maastricht
name: Maastricht University
description: >-
  Maastricht University (UM) is an international research university in Maastricht,
  Netherlands, known for its Problem-Based Learning model and ranked #230 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. UM does not operate a unified public developer
  portal; its confirmed machine-readable footprint consists of standards-based
  research-infrastructure interfaces rather than a productized API program. The
  Pure (Elsevier) current research information system at cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl
  exposes a live OAI-PMH endpoint serving OpenAIRE CERIF metadata, research data is
  published through the shared DataverseNL platform (a Dataverse instance with a
  public REST API), and the Maastricht University Institute of Data Science maintains
  an active open-source GitHub organization. Identity is federated via Shibboleth/SAML.
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/maastricht/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Netherlands
  - Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
# modified bumped 2026-06-03 after adding machine-readable artifacts for the DataverseNL API
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: maastricht:cris-oai-pmh
    name: Maastricht University Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the Maastricht University Pure
      (Elsevier) current research information system. Verified live, returning
      OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile metadata for publications, datasets, and other
      research outputs. Standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats,
      ListRecords, etc.) are supported.
    humanURL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
    baseURL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/oai
    tags: [ Research, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Pure, CERIF, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
      - type: x-OAI-PMH
        url: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/oai?verb=Identify
  - aid: maastricht:dataversenl
    name: DataverseNL Research Data API (Maastricht collection)
    description: >-
      Maastricht University publishes and preserves research datasets through the
      shared DataverseNL platform, a Dataverse instance. Dataverse provides a public
      native/REST API for searching, retrieving, and managing dataverses, datasets,
      and files. The Maastricht University collection is hosted at the Maastricht
      sub-dataverse. The platform exposes a public info/version endpoint and standard
      Dataverse Search and Data Access APIs.
    humanURL: https://dataverse.nl/dataverse/maastricht
    baseURL: https://dataverse.nl/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Dataverse, Repository, Open Data, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
      - type: Website
        url: https://dataverse.nl/dataverse/maastricht
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/maastricht-dataversenl.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/maastricht-dataverse-schema.json
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/maastricht-dataset-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/maastricht-dataverse-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/maastricht-dataset-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/maastricht-getDataverse-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/maastricht-search-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/maastricht-version-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/maastricht-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/maastricht-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/maastricht-context.jsonld
  - aid: maastricht:ids-github
    name: Maastricht University Institute of Data Science (Open Source)
    description: >-
      The Maastricht University Institute of Data Science (IDS) maintains an active
      public GitHub organization with open-source data-science tooling, including
      MOD-API conformance tooling, the Data Science Research Infrastructure (DSRI)
      documentation, semantic web / SPARQL endpoint libraries, and cohort metadata
      explorers. These are open-source projects rather than a hosted institutional
      API program.
    humanURL: https://github.com/MaastrichtU-IDS
    tags: [ Open Source, Data Science, Semantic Web, SPARQL, GitHub ]
    properties:
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/MaastrichtU-IDS
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dsri.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/MaastrichtU-IDS
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/maastricht-university/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://login.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/maastricht-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/maastricht-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/maastricht-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com