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name: University of Vienna
description: University of Vienna public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-vienna/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      The University of Vienna has no central branded API developer portal and no
      confirmed official GitHub organization (github.com/univie resolves but is a
      personal account). Its strongest verified public API surface is scholarly
      infrastructure: the PHAIDRA institutional repository, which publishes a
      documented REST API, an OpenAPI spec, and a live OAI-PMH endpoint (Identify
      verified). University of Vienna institutional data is also confirmed live via
      the third-party European HEI API in JSON:API format. Course (u:find) and
      library (u:search) systems are public web services but expose no open developer
      docs. All URLs below were probed live; no endpoints were fabricated.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/oai/?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: PHAIDRA OAI-PMH endpoint, valid Identify response.
      - url: https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/openapi
        status: 200
        note: PHAIDRA OpenAPI specification, live.
      - url: https://phaidra.org/docs/api/
        status: 200
        note: PHAIDRA API documentation (shared PHAIDRA docs site).
      - url: https://hei.api.uni-foundation.eu/api/public/schac/univie.ac.at/hei
        status: 200
        note: Third-party HEI API returns valid JSON:API data for University of Vienna.
      - url: https://ufind.univie.ac.at/en/vvz.html
        status: 200
        note: u:find course directory, public web UI; no open API docs found.
      - url: https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/en/
        status: 200
        note: University Library; uses Alma/Primo but no public API docs confirmed.
      - url: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website.
      - url: https://github.com/univie
        status: 200
        note: Resolves but is a personal account, not a confirmed official org.