---
aid: sapienza-university-of-rome
name: Sapienza University of Rome
description: >-
  Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza Università di Roma) is Italy's largest
  university and ranked #132 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public
  machine-readable footprint is centered on research and library data rather than
  a unified developer portal: the IRIS institutional research catalogue exposes a
  DSpace OAI-PMH endpoint for harvesting research metadata, and the Sapienza
  Library System (Sistema Bibliotecario Sapienza) publishes open data and linked
  data following the 5-star open data model. There is no single official,
  documented public REST API gateway; identity is federated via the Italian IDEM
  Shibboleth/SAML federation. A GitHub organization carrying the Sapienza name
  exists but hosts research and coursework projects rather than official platform APIs.
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/sapienza-university-of-rome/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Italy
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:iris-oai-pmh
    name: IRIS Research Catalogue OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for IRIS, Sapienza's institutional
      research information system / repository (DSpace platform developed by CINECA).
      The endpoint (repositoryName "IRIS - UNIROMA1 - prod") supports standard OAI-PMH
      verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, etc.) for harvesting Sapienza
      research-product metadata. Verified live returning valid OAI-PMH 2.0 XML.
    humanURL: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/iris-support
    baseURL: https://iris.uniroma1.it/oai/request
    tags: [ Research, Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/iris-support
      - type: Repository
        url: https://iris.uniroma1.it/
  - aid: sapienza-university-of-rome:library-open-data
    name: Sapienza Library System Open Data & Linked Data
    description: >-
      Open data and linked data publishing from the Sistema Bibliotecario Sapienza
      (Sapienza Library System), providing library and digital-resource datasets under
      CC BY 4.0 following the 5-star open data model and a DCAT-AP_IT profile. Datasets
      are catalogued and downloadable; a linked data service is also published. No
      formal documented REST API is provided beyond the dataset catalogue and linked
      data resources.
    humanURL: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/opendata/
    tags: [ Open Data, Linked Data, Library, DCAT, CC-BY ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/opendata/
      - type: LinkedData
        url: https://sbs.uniroma1.it/data/linkeddata
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uniroma1.it/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Sapienza-University-Rome
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sapienza-universita-di-roma/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/sapienza-university-of-rome-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/sapienza-university-of-rome-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/sapienza-university-of-rome-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com