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name: University of Bern
description: University of Bern public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bern/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      Verified live, non-fabricated. The University of Bern has no single unified
      self-service developer portal. The strongest confirmed machine-readable
      footprint is BORIS Portal, the institutional repository running DSpace 7.6.1:
      both its DSpace REST API (/server/api) and OAI-PMH endpoint (/server/oai/request,
      verb=Identify confirms repository "BORIS Portal", protocol 2.0) return HTTP 200.
      The University Library publishes a curated APIs/data-mining guide (200) but that
      page documents third-party services rather than University-of-Bern-operated APIs.
      Two official GitHub orgs exist (id-unibe-ch IT-Services, ub-unibe-ch University
      Library). Course/SIS (KSL) and identity systems are gated behind institutional
      affiliation and Swiss federated identity (SWITCH edu-ID / Shibboleth) and were not
      probed as public APIs. The IWI Open Data Show Room did not resolve at review time.
      No endpoints invented.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/api
        status: 200
        note: BORIS Portal DSpace 7.6.1 REST API root; returns HAL/JSON with dspaceVersion.
      - url: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify; repository name "BORIS Portal", earliest 2021-08-26.
      - url: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/
        status: 200
        note: BORIS Portal institutional repository / research information system UI.
      - url: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/digital_scholarship/apis/index_eng.html
        status: 200
        note: Library guide to data-mining APIs (documents third-party services).
      - url: https://www.unibe.ch/index_eng.html
        status: 200
        note: Official University of Bern website.
      - url: https://github.com/id-unibe-ch
        status: 200
        note: Official IT-Services GitHub org (~32 repos, infra/Ansible/Helm).
      - url: https://github.com/ub-unibe-ch
        status: 200
        note: Official University Library GitHub org (~13 repos, IIIF viewer, tools).
      - url: https://opendata.iwi.unibe.ch/
        status: 0
        note: IWI Open Data Show Room did not resolve (timeout) at review time.