generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
source: >-
  https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/.well-known/openid-configuration,
  https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api,
  https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify,
  https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml,
  https://www.waikato.ac.nz/llms.txt
description: >-
  The terms a caller needs to read the University of Waikato's programmable estate. Local
  institutional vocabulary is mixed with standard protocol vocabulary here on purpose — the local
  terms (Stella, paper, uowidp, Research Commons) are what make the estate legible, and they appear
  nowhere in the protocols themselves.
terms:
- term: paper
  local: true
  definition: >-
    The University of Waikato's word for a course/unit of study. "Papers" is what the study
    catalogue and the timetable enumerate; a New Zealand convention, not a synonym for a
    publication in this context.
  source: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/study/papers/
- term: Stella
  local: true
  definition: >-
    The institutional account credential named in the One-Time Secret API documentation as the
    username for HTTP Basic authentication; the API token is issued against it.
  source: https://otis.its.waikato.ac.nz/docs/api
- term: uowidp
  local: true
  definition: >-
    University of Waikato Identity Provider — the path segment and de facto name of the
    institution's own OpenID Connect provider on api.svc.waikato.ac.nz.
  source: https://api.svc.waikato.ac.nz/uowidp/v1/.well-known/openid-configuration
- term: Research Commons
  local: true
  definition: >-
    The repositoryName the institution's DSpace 7.6.5 open-access institutional repository declares
    in its OAI-PMH Identify response; repositoryIdentifier researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz.
  source: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- term: eLearn
  local: true
  definition: The institution's name for its Moodle learning management system at elearn.waikato.ac.nz.
  source: https://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/
- term: MyWaikato
  local: true
  definition: >-
    The student-facing portal at my.waikato.ac.nz, a Tribal SITS:Vision deployment authenticating
    against uowidp with client_id SITS-Prod.
  source: https://my.waikato.ac.nz/
- term: Tuakiri
  local: false
  definition: >-
    The New Zealand Access Federation, operated by REANNZ. The university's SAML 2.0 IdP entity is
    registered in its signed metadata aggregate and exported to eduGAIN.
  source: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
- term: Handle prefix 10289
  local: true
  definition: >-
    The Handle System namespace Research Commons mints persistent identifiers in — sample identifier
    oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz:10289/1234.
  source: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- term: DOI prefix 10.15663
  local: true
  definition: The University of Waikato's Crossref DOI prefix, held under Crossref member id 6347.
  source: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=waikato
- term: shibmd:Scope waikato.ac.nz
  local: false
  definition: >-
    The scoped-affiliation namespace the institution's IdP is authoritative for in Tuakiri and
    eduGAIN — the assertion that eduPersonScopedAffiliation values ending @waikato.ac.nz come from
    this entity.
  source: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml