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name: Queen's University at Kingston
description: Queen's University at Kingston public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-at-kingston/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      Queen's has a meaningful but mostly community/library-run API footprint
      rather than a single official developer portal. Qmulus (community open
      data) has live docs and landing pages but its api.qmulus.io host did not
      resolve during review and token signup is gated to @queensu.ca emails. The
      QSpace DSpace repository and the Queen's Dataverse on Borealis both expose
      live REST and OAI-PMH interfaces verified live. No endpoints were
      fabricated; gated and non-resolving surfaces are flagged as such.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://qmulus.io/
        status: 200
        note: Qmulus open data API landing page, live.
      - url: https://docs.qmulus.io
        status: 200
        note: Qmulus API docs, live (client-side rendered).
      - url: https://api.qmulus.io/v1
        status: 0
        note: Documented base URL did not resolve at review time.
      - url: https://manage.qmulus.io/token
        status: 0
        note: Token signup host did not resolve; registration gated to @queensu.ca.
      - url: https://github.com/queens-qmulus
        status: 200
        note: Qmulus GitHub org (qmulus, qu-scrapers, datasets), verified.
      - url: https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/
        status: 200
        note: QSpace DSpace institutional repository, live.
      - url: https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: QSpace OAI-PMH endpoint live at DSpace 7 /server path.
      - url: https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/server/api
        status: 200
        note: QSpace DSpace REST API root, live.
      - url: https://borealisdata.ca/oai?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: Borealis Dataverse OAI-PMH (hosts Queen's Dataverse), live.
      - url: https://www.queensu.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Official university website, live.
      - url: https://library.queensu.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Queen's University Library, live.
  - date: '2026-08-30'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      Re-profiled under the university pipeline's operator axis, and the rating is DOWN on purpose. The
      June review credited Queen's with a large API footprint that it does not have: 36 OpenAPI
      definitions titled "Queen's University at Kingston <tag> API" were the Dataverse product's own
      contract (info.title "Dataverse API", v6.8.1-SP) served from borealisdata.ca, a national platform
      run by Scholars Portal, and eight other institutions ship the same titles. Those 36 specs and the
      121 files derived from them were removed. Two corrections to the June record: QSpace has MOVED —
      qspace.library.queensu.ca now 301-redirects to queensu.scholaris.ca, a DSpace 8.4 tenant on the
      OCUL/Scholars Portal Scholaris service, so the one host previously read as institution-owned is
      not one; and Qmulus is dead, not merely unresolved — api.qmulus.io and manage.qmulus.io return
      NXDOMAIN and the GitHub org's last push was January 2023. Two genuinely institution-operated
      machine-readable surfaces were found that the June review missed: SAML 2.0 Shibboleth IdP metadata
      at login.queensu.ca, and an authored 9.5KB llms.txt at www.queensu.ca.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://login.queensu.ca/idp/shibboleth
        status: 200
        note: >-
          Shibboleth IdP metadata, application/xml, entityID https://login.queensu.ca/idp/shibboleth,
          shibmd:Scope queensu.ca. Institution-operated. NEW FIND.
      - url: https://www.queensu.ca/llms.txt
        status: 200
        note: 9,524-byte authored llms.txt, 12 sections of official Queen's sources. Institution-operated. NEW FIND.
      - url: https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/server/api
        status: 301
        note: Redirects to https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/api — QSpace is now a Scholaris tenant.
      - url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/api
        status: 200
        note: 'DSpace 8.4, dspaceName "Queens University Institutional Repository". Operator: tenant (OCUL/Scholars Portal).'
      - url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: OAI-PMH 2.0 live, adminEmail qspace@queensu.ca, 13 metadata formats.
      - url: https://borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/queens
        status: 200
        note: 'Queen''s University Dataverse Collection, alias queens, id 41133, 815 datasets. Operator: tenant.'
      - url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/api/config/properties/orcid.application-client-id
        status: 200
        note: values = [] — ORCID integration NOT configured. Negative probe, recorded rather than assumed.
      - url: https://api.qmulus.io/v1
        status: 0
        note: NXDOMAIN. Qmulus API is dead; delisted from apis[].
      - url: https://manage.qmulus.io/token
        status: 0
        note: NXDOMAIN.
      - url: https://api.queensu.ca/
        status: 0
        note: NXDOMAIN — no institution developer API host.
      - url: https://developer.queensu.ca/
        status: 0
        note: NXDOMAIN — no developer portal.
      - url: https://data.queensu.ca/
        status: 0
        note: NXDOMAIN — no institution open-data portal.
      - url: https://www.queensu.ca/ai/strategic-framework/guiding-principles-responsible-use
        status: 200
        note: Institutional responsible-AI guiding principles. Recorded as AIPolicy.
      - url: https://cac.queensu.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Centre for Advanced Computing — research computing, no public service-catalog API found.