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name: University of Bristol
description: University of Bristol public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      Bristol has no single centralized developer portal. Its strongest, verifiable
      public API surface is research-oriented: the Bristol Research Portal (Elsevier
      Pure) serves a live OpenAPI 3.0.1 REST API and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint
      (repository name "University of Bristol Open Access Interface Repository"),
      both confirmed returning 200 during review. data.bris is a confirmed open
      research data repository with DataCite DOIs, but its standard CKAN API paths
      returned 404, so no machine API endpoint was catalogued for it. Department
      GitHub orgs (uob-hpc, cs-uob) are real and live but publish source code rather
      than institutional APIs. No public status page resolved. No endpoints were
      fabricated; only live-verified URLs are catalogued.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/
        status: 200
        note: Official university website (live).
      - url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/
        status: 200
        note: Bristol Research Portal, powered by Elsevier Pure (live).
      - url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api
        status: 200
        note: Pure REST web services API root (live).
      - url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/openapi.json
        status: 200
        note: Pure API OpenAPI 3.0.1 spec, title "Pure API" (verified).
      - url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
        status: 200
        note: Pure API human documentation (live).
      - url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify; repository "University of Bristol Open Access Interface Repository" (verified).
      - url: https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/
        status: 200
        note: data.bris open research data repository (live).
      - url: https://data.bris.ac.uk/api/3/action/package_list
        status: 404
        note: Standard CKAN API path not resolvable; no machine API catalogued for data.bris.
      - url: https://github.com/uob-hpc
        status: 200
        note: University of Bristol HPC group GitHub org (live, open-source code).
      - url: https://github.com/cs-uob
        status: 200
        note: School of Computer Science GitHub org (live, open-source code).
      - url: https://status.bristol.ac.uk/
        status: 0
        note: No public status page resolved at this host.