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name: Université de Montréal
description: Université de Montréal public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/universite-de-montreal/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reviews:
- date: '2026-08-30'
  rating: 3
  summary: 'University-pipeline re-profile and correction. The June 2026 profile carried 36 OpenAPI documents
    and 38 apis[] entries; every one of the 36 was the Dataverse product''s own contract, a title five
    to eight other institutions in this cohort also ship, harvested from the shared Borealis instance
    and then re-based by our own refine-openapis step onto umontreal.scholaris.ca, a DSpace host that
    does not serve the Dataverse API at all. Those 36 specs and the 88 artifacts derived from them (collections,
    JSON Schema, JSON Structure, examples, JSON-LD, vocabulary, Spectral rules, agentic-access) were removed
    file by file. In their place: the SADVR REST API, which the June profile recorded as a dead testing
    endpoint and which is in fact live — the documented example URL says ressource/langues where the deployment
    serves ressource/langue, and the undocumented HTML 404 read as decommissioned. Fifteen documented
    SADVR routes returned 200 application/json. Also newly found: UdeM''s Shibboleth Identity Provider,
    publishing SAML 2.0 entity metadata under the institution''s own domain, which is exactly the surface
    class this cohort systematically misses. Apparent footprint falls from 38 entries to 6; measured footprint
    rises.'
  endpoints:
  - url: https://www.recherche.umontreal.ca/vitrine/rest/api/1.8/umontreal/ressource/faculte
    status: 200
    note: SADVR reference service, 29 faculties. Institution-operated, keyless.
  - url: https://www.recherche.umontreal.ca/vitrine/rest/api/1.8/umontreal/recherche/professeur/select?q=*:*&rows=1
    status: 200
    note: SOLR search, numFound 3,516 researchers.
  - url: https://www.recherche.umontreal.ca/vitrine/rest/api/1.8/umontreal/ressource/langues
    status: 404
    note: The URL the June profile probed. Plural; deployment serves the singular. One character produced
      a false "dead API" verdict.
  - url: https://shibboleth.umontreal.ca/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
    note: SAML 2.0 IdP metadata, shibmd:Scope umontreal.ca. NEW FIND — institution-operated identity federation.
  - url: https://shibboleth.umontreal.ca/idp/status
    status: 200
    note: Live Shibboleth IdP operational report.
  - url: https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, 18 metadata prefixes. Tenant — Scholaris/DSpace, not UdeM engineering.
  - url: https://borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/montreal
    status: 200
    note: Dataverse collection 75123, 452 datasets with DataCite DOIs. Tenant — Borealis/Scholars Portal.
  - url: https://umontreal.on.worldcat.org/discovery
    status: 200
    note: OCLC WorldCat Discovery tenant.
  - url: https://api.umontreal.ca/
    status: 400
    note: Resolves, empty body, undocumented. Internal gateway, not recorded as an API.
- date: '2026-06-03'
  rating: 2
  summary: 'UdeM has no centralized, branded developer portal. The verified public surface is research/library
    oriented: the Papyrus OAI-PMH endpoint was probed live and returns a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify response,
    the SADVR REST API is documented on the UdeM Confluence wiki (doc page live, but its documented base
    path returns 404 and appears to be a testing/legacy endpoint), and UdeM participates in the Borealis
    Canadian Dataverse. The official UdeM Libraries GitHub org (bibudem) exists and hosts repository tooling.
    No endpoints, keys, or baseURLs were fabricated; the SADVR base URL is intentionally omitted from
    apis.yml because it does not resolve.'
  endpoints:
  - url: https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/server/oai/openaire4?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint; valid Identify for Papyrus repository.
  - url: https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/
    status: 200
    note: Papyrus institutional repository home (DSpace/Scholaris).
  - url: https://wiki.umontreal.ca/spaces/DOC/pages/294781211/API+REST+%E2%80%93+Description+technique
    status: 200
    note: SADVR REST API technical documentation (Confluence wiki).
  - url: https://www.recherche.umontreal.ca/vitrine/rest/api/1.8/umontreal/ressource/langues
    status: 404
    note: Documented SADVR base path does not resolve (testing/legacy).
  - url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/montreal
    status: 200
    note: UdeM collection in Borealis Canadian Dataverse.
  - url: https://github.com/bibudem
    status: 200
    note: Official UdeM Libraries (Bibliothèques) GitHub org.
  - url: https://www.umontreal.ca/en/
    status: 200
    note: Official institutional website.
  - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universite-de-montreal/
    status: 999
    note: LinkedIn school page exists; 999 is LinkedIn bot-block, not absence.