--- name: University College Dublin description: University College Dublin public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucd/refs/heads/main/review.yml created: '2026-06-03' modified: '2026-06-03' reviews: - date: '2026-06-03' rating: 3 summary: >- UCD has no central developer portal, but a real, verifiable machine-readable footprint exists in its library and cultural-heritage systems. Confirmed live: the GitHub org, duchas.ie, digital.ucd.ie, the Research Repository, and the Dúchas API docs at docs.gaois.ie. The Dúchas API base returns HTTP 500 on a bare request (key/params required) which confirms it is live but gated. The data.ucd.ie host (cited as the IIIF image base in third-party docs) did not resolve during probing, and the digital.ucd.ie research/index.php docs page is now 404 — so IIIF and geospatial endpoints are documented but not all directly reachable from published URLs. No endpoints were fabricated; gated/unreachable items are flagged below. endpoints: - url: https://www.ucd.ie/ status: 403 note: Official site, blocks scripted user agents (bot protection); resolves in browser. - url: https://github.com/University-College-Dublin status: 200 note: Official GitHub org exists; no public members listed. - url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/ status: 405 note: DSpace-CRIS repository live; root returns 405 to HEAD-style probe. - url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request?verb=Identify status: 405 note: OAI-PMH endpoint; documented harvesting interface for the repository. - url: https://libguides.ucd.ie/RRU/usage status: 200 note: LibGuide documenting OAI-PMH and DSpace REST access for the repository. - url: https://digital.ucd.ie/ status: 200 note: UCD Digital Library home, live. - url: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/ status: 200 note: Help/developer topics; describes IIIF, Geospatial, and unAPI data services. - url: https://digital.ucd.ie/research/index.php status: 404 note: Previously-cited developer/research docs page no longer resolves. - url: https://www.duchas.ie/ status: 200 note: National Folklore Collection public site, live. - url: https://www.duchas.ie/api/v0.5 status: 500 note: Dúchas API base live but requires API key and parameters. - url: https://docs.gaois.ie status: 200 note: Current Dúchas API documentation (moved from archived GitHub repo). - url: https://github.com/gaois/DuchasAPI-docs status: 200 note: Archived Dúchas API developer docs; points to docs.gaois.ie. - url: https://data.ucd.ie/ status: 0 note: Cited IIIF/geospatial image base in third-party docs; did not resolve during probing. - date: '2026-08-30' rating: 2 summary: >- Re-profiled under the API Evangelist university pipeline, which settles WHO OPERATES each surface before any contract is saved. The June 2026 review read the Dúchas API's HTTP 500 as "live but gated"; it is not. The Gaois research group at Dublin City University — which builds and operates duchas.ie for the National Folklore Collection held at UCD — states in its own v0.6 documentation that this "is a prerelease version of the Dúchas API that is no longer available", and every path returns a 500 IIS error page. Six per-tag OpenAPIs of that DCU-operated, withdrawn contract had been saved under UCD's slug with a baseURL of https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request, a path that returns 405 and does not serve those endpoints. Those six specs and the 28 files derived from them were removed. The UCD Digital Library's IIIF Image, IIIF Presentation, Geospatial and unAPI endpoints are also gone: the platform was decommissioned and digital.ucd.ie is now a declared "temporary access website" on CollectionBuilder-CSV, with /help/, /api, /iiif and /view/ all 404. What UCD does operate was verified live and is now what this profile claims: an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint at the CORRECTED path /server/oai/request (17,167 records, fourteen metadata formats, an OpenAIRE CRIS base URL, correct protocol error codes), a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider registered in Edugate/eduGAIN, and static Dublin Core data exports from the Digital Library. No endpoints were fabricated; the one OpenAPI in the repository is API Evangelist's derived description of the OAI-PMH endpoint and is marked as such. A lower score than June is the correct outcome. endpoints: - url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/server/oai/request?verb=Identify status: 200 note: >- The working OAI-PMH base URL. repositoryName "Research Repository UCD", adminEmail research.repository@ucd.ie, protocolVersion 2.0. - url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/oai/request?verb=Identify status: 405 note: The path claimed in June 2026. It is not an OAI-PMH endpoint. - url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/server/api status: 200 note: >- DSpace 7.6.1 / cris-2023.02.05 REST root. Host CNAMEs to ucd7.4science.cloud — 4Science-hosted tenant, vendor contract. - url: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/ status: 405 note: Bot challenge ("Human Verification"), not a dead host. - url: https://sso.ucd.ie/idp/shibboleth status: 200 note: >- Registered eduGAIN/Edugate IdP entityID, scope ucd.ie, SIRTFI — but the body served here is the STOCK Shibboleth example metadata (entityID idp.exanple.com, localhost endpoints), not UCD's. - url: https://digital.ucd.ie/data.html status: 200 note: Static Dublin Core exports (CSV/JSON, facets, subjects, TimelineJS). - url: https://digital.ucd.ie/help/ status: 404 note: >- Was 200 in June and was the DeveloperPortal pointer plus the Documentation pointer on eight apis[] entries. Now dead; removed. - url: https://digital.ucd.ie/iiif status: 404 note: IIIF endpoints decommissioned with the old platform. - url: https://www.duchas.ie/api/v0.5/api status: 500 note: Withdrawn, not gated. Same for /api/v0.6/api and /api. - url: https://docs.gaois.ie/en/data/duchas/v0.6/api status: 200 note: >- Operator's own documentation: "a prerelease version of the Dúchas API that is no longer available". Feedback to gaois@dcu.ie. - url: https://github.com/University-College-Dublin status: 200 note: Official GitHub org, but it publishes ZERO public repositories. - url: https://www.ucd.ie/llms.txt status: 404 note: No agent-facing surface. - url: https://www.ucd.ie/.well-known/security.txt status: 404 note: No vulnerability disclosure surface.