---
aid: uclouvain
name: UCLouvain
description: >-
  UCLouvain (Universite catholique de Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking
  university, based in Louvain-la-Neuve, and is ranked #203 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in open
  science and library infrastructure rather than a single unified developer portal:
  the institution operates an institutional Dataverse open-data repository and the
  DIAL (Digital Access to Libraries) institutional repository, both of which expose
  standards-based APIs (Dataverse Native/Search API and OAI-PMH metadata harvesting).
  UCLouvain also maintains a public GitHub organization and originated the open-source
  OSIS (Open Student Information System) project. No single gated, key-issuing
  developer portal was confirmed at the time of review.
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/uclouvain/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Open Data
  - Open Science
  - Research Data
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Belgium
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: uclouvain:dataverse-api
    name: Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse API
    description: >-
      UCLouvain's institutional research-data repository runs on Dataverse (v6.8 at
      time of review) and exposes the standard Dataverse Native and Search APIs under
      /api, allowing programmatic search and retrieval of datasets, files, and
      metadata. UCLouvain was the first Belgian university to deploy an institutional
      open-data repository.
    humanURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/
    baseURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/api
    tags: [ Open Data, Research Data, Dataverse, Open Science ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/uclouvain-dataverse-api.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/uclouvain-dataset-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/uclouvain-dataset-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/uclouvain-search-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/uclouvain-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/uclouvain-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/uclouvain-context.jsonld
  - aid: uclouvain:dataverse-oai
    name: Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      The UCLouvain Dataverse repository exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting
      endpoint ("Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI Archive") for harvesting dataset
      metadata by external aggregators and service providers.
    humanURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/
    baseURL: https://dataverse.uclouvain.be/oai
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Open Data, Metadata, Research Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/oai.html
  - aid: uclouvain:dial-oai
    name: DIAL UCLouvain OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      DIAL (Digital Access to Libraries) is UCLouvain's institutional repository for
      research publications. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint ("DIAL UCLouvain
      Repository") for harvesting publication metadata into discovery systems and
      aggregators.
    humanURL: https://dial.uclouvain.be/
    baseURL: https://dial.uclouvain.be/oai
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Institutional Repository, Library, Metadata, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - aid: uclouvain:osis
    name: OSIS - Open Student Information System
    description: >-
      OSIS (Open Student Information System) is an open-source higher-education
      management platform originated and maintained by UCLouvain to manage students,
      teachers, courses, and programs. It is a Django application published on GitHub
      and includes REST API and SDK components; it is run by the institution rather
      than offered as a hosted public API.
    humanURL: https://github.com/uclouvain/osis
    tags: [ Open Source, Student Information System, Higher Education, Django ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/uclouvain/osis
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/uclouvain/osis
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uclouvain
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://be.linkedin.com/school/uclouvain/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/uclouvain-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/uclouvain-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/uclouvain-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com