--- name: National Cheng Kung University description: National Cheng Kung University public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ncku/refs/heads/main/review.yml created: '2026-06-03' modified: '2026-09-01' reviews: - date: '2026-06-03' rating: 3 summary: >- NCKU has no single consolidated developer portal, but it operates real, live machine-readable interfaces. The CKAN open data platform was verified live returning valid CKAN Action API JSON (150+ dataset IDs from package_list). The library discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo/Alma and the institutional repository on DSpace 7, both verified live. No NCKU-branded API key program or developer docs were found, and a working OAI-PMH/REST base URL for the DSpace repository did not resolve at probe time, so it was not asserted. No endpoints were fabricated. endpoints: - url: https://data.ncku.edu.tw/ status: 200 note: CKAN open data platform homepage, live. - url: https://data.ncku.edu.tw/api/3/action/package_list status: 200 note: CKAN Action API returns valid JSON with 150+ dataset identifiers. - url: https://web.ncku.edu.tw/index.php?Lang=en status: 200 note: Official English university website. - url: https://www.ncku.edu.tw/ status: 200 note: Primary institutional domain, live. - url: https://i.ncku.edu.tw/en status: 200 note: Cheng-Kung Portal (campus service portal), live. - url: https://www.lib.ncku.edu.tw/ status: 200 note: NCKU Library site; references Ex Libris Primo/Alma. - url: https://ncku.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=886NCKU_INST:NCKU status: 200 note: Ex Libris Primo discovery view for NCKU, live. - url: https://nckur.lib.ncku.edu.tw/ status: 200 note: DSpace 7 institutional repository (NCKUR), live. - url: http://nckur.lib.ncku.edu.tw/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify status: 0 note: Candidate DSpace OAI-PMH endpoint did not resolve; not asserted. - url: https://github.com/ncku-csie status: 200 note: Dept. of CSIE GitHub org, live (academic, not central API org). - url: https://github.com/gdsc-ncku status: 404 note: GDSC NCKU GitHub org not found at this slug; not cataloged. - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/national-cheng-kung-university/ status: 999 note: LinkedIn returns 999 (bot block); school page exists. - date: '2026-09-01' rating: 2 summary: >- Re-profiled under the university pipeline, which settles WHO OPERATES each surface before saving anything. Three corrections to the 2026-06 review. (1) Library discovery was recorded against NCKU's own library host; it is not NCKU's service. Every discovery, account and course reserves link on www.lib.ncku.edu.tw points at ncku.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with view 886NCKU_INST, an institution-specific view on Ex Libris's shared Primo VE platform. Re-labelled x-operator tenant; no Ex Libris contract is saved under NCKU's name. (2) The institutional repository was recorded as live at 200; it is real and it is NCKU's DSpace, but the host refused TCP on 443 and 80 on most of roughly thirty attempts. Three responsive windows were enough to confirm "Powered By DSPACE, MIT" Version 7.0 on nginx/1.18.0 and handle prefix 987654321, and to establish that /oai/request?verb=Identify is a genuine application 404. The DSpace REST and OAI-PMH claims remain unverified and are not asserted. (3) package_list now returns 108 dataset identifiers, not the 150+ recorded in June. Added: NCKU's ROR registration 01b8kcc49 as a registry membership, with the negative findings that api.datacite.org lists zero clients and api.crossref.org zero members for NCKU, so it registers no DOI prefix with either. idp.ncku.edu.tw resolves but answers on no port from outside Taiwan and Taiwan has no eduGAIN federation, so the Shibboleth IdP is named as a lead, not credited as a surface. No OpenAPI is saved: the CKAN Action API is CKAN's product contract shared by every CKAN site, and crediting it to NCKU would be the same defect this pipeline exists to prevent. The rating drops because the June profile counted a vendor's discovery service and an unconfirmed repository API as NCKU's; the corrected footprint is one genuine open-data endpoint plus governance documents. endpoints: - url: https://data.ncku.edu.tw/api/3/action/status_show status: 200 note: CKAN 2.0, site_title "National Cheng Kung University Open Data Platform", extensions include nckumetadata and nckutemplatehelper. - url: https://data.ncku.edu.tw/api/3/action/package_list status: 200 note: 108 dataset identifiers (June review recorded 150+). - url: https://data.ncku.edu.tw/zh_TW/about status: 200 note: Open Government Data License v1 (Taiwan), stated CC BY 4.0 compatible. - url: https://data.ncku.edu.tw/llms.txt status: 404 note: No llms.txt on the open data portal. - url: https://ncku.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=886NCKU_INST:886NCKU_INST&lang=zh-tw status: 200 note: Primo VE Angular shell (primoExploreRoot); Ex Libris tenancy, not NCKU engineering. - url: https://nckur.lib.ncku.edu.tw/ status: 200 note: Intermittent — 200/92896 on 3 of ~30 attempts; DSpace confirmed during a responsive window. One early fetch served a "Website Moved" interstitial to mytheses.my. - url: https://nckur.lib.ncku.edu.tw/oai/request?verb=Identify status: 404 note: Genuine application 404; this OAI-PMH path does not exist. - url: https://idp.ncku.edu.tw/idp/shibboleth status: 0 note: DNS resolves to 140.116.241.102 but nc port checks on 443 and 8443 time out. Presence is not proof; not credited. - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=cheng+kung status: 200 note: Zero clients. NCKU is not a DataCite registrant. - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=cheng+kung&rows=5 status: 200 note: Zero members. NCKU is not a Crossref member. - url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/01b8kcc49 status: 200 note: ROR record for NCKU; fundref 501100007750, GRID grid.64523.36, ISNI 0000 0004 0532 3255, Wikidata Q706708. - url: https://course.ncku.edu.tw/ status: 200 note: NCKU course information and enrollment system; institution-operated, HTML only, no API. - url: https://hsm.ncku.edu.tw/var/file/199/1199/img/434977937.pdf status: 200 note: NCKU generative-AI academic integrity guideline (國立成功大學生成式AI於教學研究的學術誠信指引), PDF. - url: https://sites.google.com/gs.ncku.edu.tw/nckuaiguidance/ status: 200 note: NCKU AI and learning tools reference guide for students and faculty. - url: https://github.com/ncku-csie status: 200 note: Dept. of CSIE org, 56 public repos; departmental, not a central API org.