---
aid: national-university-of-colombia
name: National University of Colombia
description: >-
  The National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, UNAL) is
  the country's largest public research university, ranked #219 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. UNAL maintains an open-data portal and a DSpace-based
  institutional repository, but does not publish a formal, documented public
  developer portal or REST API program. The most accessible programmatic surface
  is the OAI-PMH interface exposed by its institutional repository, alongside an
  open-data portal and an official GitHub organization with limited public code.
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/national-university-of-colombia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Colombia
  - Open Data
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: national-university-of-colombia:repository-oai
    name: Institutional Repository (DSpace / OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      The Repositorio Institucional Universidad Nacional de Colombia is a DSpace
      repository of theses, dissertations, articles, books, and research data.
      It is registered with re3data and OpenDOAR as exposing an OAI-PMH metadata
      interface for harvesting. The repository web application resolves publicly;
      the OAI-PMH request endpoint path could not be confirmed live during review
      and should be re-verified against the current DSpace version before use.
    humanURL: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/
    tags: [ Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Research, Open Access ]
    baseURL: https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013982
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/national-university-of-colombia-repository-oai.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-community-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/national-university-of-colombia-collection-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-community-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/national-university-of-colombia-collection-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCommunities-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-listCollections-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/national-university-of-colombia-oaiRecord-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/national-university-of-colombia-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/national-university-of-colombia-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/national-university-of-colombia-context.jsonld
  - aid: national-university-of-colombia:open-data
    name: UNAL Open Data Portal
    description: >-
      Datos Abiertos Universidad Nacional de Colombia is the institution's open
      data portal publishing primary, interoperable datasets for public reuse.
      The portal resolves publicly but does not advertise a documented API or
      developer endpoints; data access appears to be via the portal interface.
    humanURL: https://datosabiertos.unal.edu.co/
    tags: [ Open Data, Datasets, Statistics ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://datosabiertos.unal.edu.co/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://unal.edu.co/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/unal
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universidad-nacional-de-colombia/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/national-university-of-colombia-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/national-university-of-colombia-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/national-university-of-colombia-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com