generated: '2026-08-30'
method: derived
x-evidence-method: probed
x-evidence-note: >-
  Written by API Evangelist from live HTTP probes of the institution's own endpoints on
  2026-08-30; every status code and payload quoted below was observed, not inferred. `derived`
  is the provenance-manifest term for "we wrote it" — the provider did not publish this file.
source: >-
  Terms taken from live responses of https://curis.ku.dk/ws/oai, https://id.ku.dk,
  https://metadata.wayf.dk and https://api.datacite.org on 2026-08-30, plus the
  institution's own naming on ku.dk hosts.
vocabulary:
  name: University of Copenhagen Programmable Surface Vocabulary
  description: >-
    The named things a machine needs to know to work with Copenhagen's public surfaces, and
    — as importantly for this cohort — which of them the university operates and which
    belong to a vendor it buys from.
  version: '2026-08-30'
  terms:
    - term: CURIS
      definition: >-
        Copenhagen University Research Information System. The institution's CRIS,
        administratively owned by the org unit "KU Forskning og Informationssikkerhed",
        contact curis@adm.ku.dk. Runs on Elsevier Pure 5.30.3-3, but its OAI-PMH harvesting
        endpoint is served from the university's own host curis.ku.dk (130.226.237.49).
      tags: [Research, Repository, Institution-Operated]
    - term: researchprofiles.ku.dk
      definition: >-
        The public-facing research portal. A vanity hostname on Elsevier's platform —
        CNAME chain researchprofiles.ku.dk -> ku.elsevierpure.com ->
        eu.prod.elsevierpure.com -> Cloudflare. The data is Copenhagen's; the contract and
        the engineering are Elsevier's. Returns a Cloudflare interstitial (403) to
        non-browser clients.
      tags: [Research, Repository, Tenant]
    - term: OAI-PMH set
      definition: >-
        A harvesting partition. This repository advertises 7,430 setSpecs; the four that
        matter to an integrator are openaire_cris_publications, openaire_cris_persons,
        openaire_cris_orgunits and openaire_cris_patents.
      tags: [OAI-PMH, Core Concept]
    - term: oai_cerif_openaire
      definition: >-
        The metadata prefix that returns full OpenAIRE CERIF profile records — the richest
        format on offer, and the only one carrying ORCID iDs and structured DOIs. Schema
        https://www.openaire.eu/schema/cris/1.2/openaire-cerif-profile.xsd.
      tags: [OAI-PMH, Metadata Format]
    - term: ddf-mxd
      definition: >-
        A Danish national metadata format offered alongside the international prefixes,
        together with fi-person (schema at forsker.forskningsdatabasen.dk) — these are the
        formats by which Copenhagen feeds the Danish national research database.
      tags: [OAI-PMH, Metadata Format, Denmark]
    - term: WAYF
      definition: >-
        Where Are You From — Denmark's national identity federation and its eduGAIN
        participant. Copenhagen has three registered SAML entities in it.
      tags: [Identity Federation, Denmark]
    - term: id.ku.dk
      definition: >-
        Copenhagen's production SAML 2.0 / WS-Federation identity provider (NetIQ Access
        Manager, /nidp/ paths). Publishes a signed EntityDescriptor at
        /nidp/saml2/metadata and is the login authority for KUnet and ERDA.
      tags: [Identity Federation, Institution-Operated]
    - term: ERDA
      definition: >-
        Electronic Research Data Archive, erda.ku.dk / erda.dk / sid.erda.dk. Operated by
        the SCIENCE HPC Center at the University of Copenhagen. Authenticates UCPH users
        through id.ku.dk and external users through oidc.erda.dk and cert.erda.dk.
      tags: [Research Computing, Research Data, Institution-Operated]
    - term: SCIENCE HPC Center
      definition: >-
        The high-performance computing centre of the Faculty of Science, hpc.ku.dk,
        historically part of the DCSC national arrangement. Documents SLURM, Lustre, MPI
        and compiler access as web pages, not as an API.
      tags: [Research Computing, Institution-Operated]
    - term: specify-snm.science.ku.dk
      definition: >-
        The Specify collection-management deployment of the Natural History Museum of
        Denmark, on the Faculty of Science's own host. Its /static/depository/export_feed/
        directory serves 13 Darwin Core Archive zips that GBIF harvests — the only bulk
        open-data downloads Copenhagen serves from its own infrastructure.
      tags: [Open Data, Biodiversity, Institution-Operated]
    - term: kurser.ku.dk
      definition: >-
        The course catalogue. A Copenhagen hostname on Arcanic infrastructure
        (courses.loadbalancer.arcanic.dk), serving human-readable course pages and a
        471KB sitemap.xml. No JSON representation is offered — ?format=json returns HTML.
      tags: [Course Catalog, Institution-Operated]
    - term: ku-kom
      definition: >-
        The university's GitHub account (a User account, not an Organization), 52 public
        repositories of TYPO3 CMS content elements and a Bootstrap styleguide that build
        the ku.dk web platform. Source code, not a callable service.
      tags: [Open Source, Institution-Operated]
    - term: XIZZ
      definition: >-
        Copenhagen's DataCite provider symbol, an active consortium organization with two
        registered repositories, xizz.curis and dk.ku. The mechanism by which the
        university mints DOIs for its own research outputs.
      tags: [Persistent Identifiers, Tenant]