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name: Sorbonne University
description: Sorbonne University public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sorbonne/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      Sorbonne University has no centralized public developer portal. Its
      programmatic footprint is open-science infrastructure. Verified live: the
      central HAL OAI-PMH endpoint returns a valid Identify response and the
      Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse Native API version endpoint returns
      {"status":"OK","data":{"version":"6.0"}}. The institutional HAL portal
      (hal.sorbonne-universite.fr) front end is behind Anubis bot protection but
      its data is harvestable through the central HAL API. The official GitHub
      org (sorbonne-universite) exists and is legitimate but hosts zero public
      repositories. No endpoints were fabricated; all APIs cataloged are
      standards-based (OAI-PMH, HAL search, Dataverse) confirmed reachable.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: HAL central OAI-PMH Identify response confirmed (records since 2002, CC0 metadata).
      - url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/
        status: 200
        note: HAL Solr search API base; documented and reachable.
      - url: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/api/info/version
        status: 200
        note: Dataverse Native API live, version 6.0 (status OK).
      - url: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/dataverse/sorbonne-univ
        status: 200
        note: Sorbonne Université research-data collection (dozens of datasets).
      - url: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
        status: 403
        note: Institutional HAL portal front end blocked by Anubis bot protection; data via central HAL API.
      - url: https://github.com/sorbonne-universite
        status: 200
        note: Official GitHub org, legitimate, but no public repositories.
      - url: https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website (English).
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sorbonne-universite/
        status: 200
        note: Official LinkedIn school page.