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name: Rice University
description: Rice University public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      Verified Rice's public footprint live with no fabrication. The strongest,
      genuinely documented API surface is Fondren Library's Rice Research
      Repository (DSpace 9.3): both its REST API root and OAI-PMH Identify
      endpoint returned 200 with the repositoryName "Rice Research Repository".
      A Shibboleth SAML IdP serves live metadata, and an Atlassian status page
      is published. The course schedule (courses.rice.edu) is a queryable web
      interface, not a formal REST/JSON API. The official RiceUniversity GitHub
      org exists but has zero public repositories. A previously referenced
      third-party RiceAPI (api.riceapps.org) does not resolve and was excluded.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://www.rice.edu/
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website.
      - url: https://repository.rice.edu/server/api
        status: 200
        note: DSpace 9.3 REST API root with HAL links; live.
      - url: https://repository.rice.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify; repositoryName "Rice Research Repository".
      - url: https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
        status: 200
        note: Shibboleth SAML IdP metadata (IDPSSODescriptor).
      - url: https://courses.rice.edu/
        status: 200
        note: Public course schedule/catalog web query interface.
      - url: https://status.rice.edu/
        status: 200
        note: Atlassian Statuspage for Rice University services.
      - url: https://github.com/RiceUniversity
        status: 200
        note: Official GitHub org; zero public repositories.
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rice-university/
        status: 999
        note: LinkedIn school page; 999 is LinkedIn anti-bot, page exists.
      - url: https://api.riceapps.org/api/courses
        status: 0
        note: Legacy third-party RiceAPI; does not resolve. Excluded.