---
name: University of Lisbon — Vocabulary
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
source:
  - openapi/university-of-lisbon-fenixedu-academic-api-openapi.yml
  - https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/api/fenix/v1/domainModel
  - https://repositorio.ulisboa.pt/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
note: >-
  Derived by API Evangelist from the probed contracts and from the institution's own
  serialized domain model. The provider publishes no vocabulary document. Terms below
  appear in a machine-readable payload that was actually retrieved.
terms:
  - term: academicTerm
    definition: >-
      A teaching period, rendered as "2025/2026" for an academic year and as
      "1º Semestre 2026/2027" for a semester within one. The query parameter form and the
      /about form are NOT the same string shape; a client that round-trips
      about.currentAcademicTerm into ?academicTerm= will fail.
    source: GET /about, GET /academicterms, ?academicTerm= on /degrees
  - term: degree
    definition: >-
      A named programme of study with an acronym, a type (Licenciatura, Mestrado,
      Diploma de Estudos Avançados, Programa Doutoral), one or more campuses and a list
      of academic terms in which it ran.
    source: GET /degrees, GET /degrees/{id}
  - term: course
    definition: A course unit inside a degree for one academic term, with a schedule, groups, evaluations and enrolled students.
    source: GET /degrees/{id}/courses, GET /courses/{id}
  - term: space
    definition: >-
      A physical location in the estate, nesting recursively through containedSpaces.
      Observed type values CAMPUS, BUILDING, FLOOR, ROOM. Campuses observed: Alameda,
      Tecnológico e Nuclear, Taguspark.
    source: GET /spaces, GET /spaces/{id}
  - term: blueprint
    definition: A floor-plan raster image for a space, served as image/jpeg from the space resource.
    source: GET /spaces/{id}/blueprint
  - term: istId
    definition: >-
      Instituto Superior Técnico personal identifier, rendered as "ist" followed by
      digits. A person identifier, and one of the reasons degree payloads carry personal
      data.
    source: degrees[].teachers[].istId
  - term: domainModel
    definition: >-
      A 1.2 MB serialized description of the FenixEdu object model — class names,
      superclasses, interfaces, modifiers and relations — served anonymously. Unusual and
      genuinely useful: the institution exposes its own internal schema graph.
    source: GET /domainModel
  - term: organic unit (unidade orgânica)
    definition: >-
      A school, faculty or institute of the university. ULisboa has 18 plus the National
      Museum of Natural History and Science. Organic units hold their own systems, their
      own Crossref member IDs and their own AI guidance, which is why the institution's
      programmable footprint is federated rather than central.
    source: https://www.ulisboa.pt/en/info/collective-catalog-university-lisbon
  - term: RCAAP
    definition: >-
      Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, the national open-access
      repository programme run by FCT/FCCN that the ULisboa repository is part of.
    source: DataCite client QWBT.ULISBOA description
  - term: RCTSaai
    definition: >-
      The Portuguese national identity federation operated by FCCN, registration
      authority https://www.fccn.pt, through which ULisboa publishes its IdP to eduGAIN.
    source: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_entities&format=json
  - term: HEI ID
    definition: >-
      Erasmus Without Paper higher-education-institution identifier. ULisboa's is
      ulisboa.pt, alongside Erasmus code P LISBOA109 and PIC 949885305.
    source: https://registry.erasmuswithoutpaper.eu/catalogue-v1.xml