---
aid: university-of-chicago
name: University of Chicago
description: >-
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago,
  Illinois, founded in 1890 and ranked #14 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public developer and API footprint is anchored in research data
  infrastructure rather than a single central developer portal: the Center for
  Translational Data Science (CTDS) maintains the open-source Gen3 data platform
  (uc-cdis on GitHub), which auto-generates FAIR APIs for accessing biomedical
  data commons. The University also publishes Shibboleth/OpenID Connect identity
  integrations for CNetID authentication, and the University of Chicago Library
  operates IIIF image and presentation endpoints plus a VuFind-based catalog. A
  faculty/staff-facing AI API portal (Azure OpenAI via API Management) exists but
  is gated and not publicly accessible.
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/university-of-chicago/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Source
  - IIIF
  - Identity
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-chicago:gen3
    name: Gen3 Data Commons APIs (CTDS)
    description: >-
      Open-source data platform maintained by the University of Chicago Center
      for Translational Data Science. Gen3 auto-generates FAIR APIs (data
      submission, GraphQL/Peregrine query, indexing/Indexd, Fence auth) for
      building and accessing biomedical data commons. Code is fully public under
      Apache 2.0 across the uc-cdis GitHub organization.
    humanURL: https://uc-cdis.github.io/gen3-user-doc/
    tags: [ Research Data, Data Commons, FAIR, GraphQL, Open Source, Healthcare ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uc-cdis.github.io/gen3-user-doc/appendices/api-gen3/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/uc-cdis
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-chicago-fence.yaml
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-chicago-indexd.yaml
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-chicago-sheepdog.yaml
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-chicago-peregrine.yaml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-chicago-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/university-of-chicago-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-chicago:cnetid-oidc
    name: CNetID OpenID Connect / Shibboleth Identity
    description: >-
      University of Chicago identity and authentication integrations published
      on the official uchicago GitHub organization, including Shibboleth
      Identity Provider extensions and OpenID Connect (OIDC) examples for
      authenticating CNetID-backed applications.
    humanURL: https://github.com/uchicago
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, OpenID Connect, Shibboleth, SSO ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/uchicago
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/uchicago
  - aid: university-of-chicago:library-iiif
    name: University of Chicago Library IIIF
    description: >-
      The University of Chicago Library exposes International Image
      Interoperability Framework (IIIF) image and presentation endpoints for its
      digital collections, with related code published in the uchicago-library
      GitHub organization.
    humanURL: https://github.com/uchicago-library/iiif
    baseURL: https://iiif-manifest.lib.uchicago.edu/
    tags: [ IIIF, Library, Digital Collections, Images, Open Source ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/uchicago-library/iiif
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/uchicago-library
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uchicago.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uchicago
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uchicago/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/UChicago
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/uc-cdis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://github.com/uchicago
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-chicago-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-chicago-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-chicago-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com