vocabulary:
  name: University of Washington Enterprise Web Services Vocabulary
  description: Controlled vocabulary of core terms observed across the University of Washington UW-IT
    Enterprise Web Services (EWS) machine-readable API descriptions — the Student Web Service (SWS v5),
    IdCard Web Service (IdCardWS v1), Groups Web Service (GWS 2.3.x), Identity Registration Web Service
    (IRWS v2/v3) and Token Authentication Web Service (TAWS v2) — plus UW's open OAI-PMH and SAML federation
    surfaces.
  version: 1.1.0
  terms:
  - term: Student Web Service
    definition: UW-IT RESTful API (SWS) providing access to central student data including course, curriculum,
      term, section, registration, and person data.
    tags:
    - sws
    - student
    - enterprise-web-services
  - term: IdCard Web Service
    definition: UW-IT RESTful API (IdCardWS) providing access to Husky ID Card data, including cardholder
      photos and card records.
    tags:
    - idcardws
    - identity
    - id-card
  - term: RegID
    definition: UW registration identifier, a unique 32-character hexadecimal identifier for a person
      used to key person, card, and photo resources.
    tags:
    - identity
    - person
    - identifier
  - term: Course
    definition: A unit of instruction identified by year, quarter, curriculum abbreviation, and course
      number, owned by a college and curriculum.
    tags:
    - sws
    - course
    - academic
  - term: Curriculum
    definition: A grouping of courses under a curriculum abbreviation within a college.
    tags:
    - sws
    - curriculum
    - academic
  - term: Term
    definition: An academic term identified by year and quarter (autumn, winter, spring, summer).
    tags:
    - sws
    - term
    - calendar
  - term: Quarter
    definition: One of the four UW academic periods within a year - autumn, winter, spring, or summer.
    tags:
    - sws
    - term
    - calendar
  - term: Campus
    definition: A UW campus location (Seattle, Bothell, Tacoma) associated with a course or section.
    tags:
    - sws
    - campus
  - term: Photo
    definition: A cardholder photo resource exposed in small, medium, large, and custom-height sizes.
    tags:
    - idcardws
    - photo
    - identity
  - term: ResourceUri
    definition: A hypermedia reference (Href) object linking from one EWS resource to a related resource.
    tags:
    - hypermedia
    - link
  - term: ViewModel
    definition: The UW EWS naming convention for the JSON representation of a response object.
    tags:
    - convention
    - schema
  - term: Degree Audit
    definition: SWS resource representing a student degree audit and audit exceptions.
    tags:
    - sws
    - degree
    - audit
  - term: Groups Web Service
    definition: UW-IT RESTful API (GWS) at groups.uw.edu/group_sws/v3 providing the institutional group
      registry and membership operations; requires an InCommon client certificate.
    tags:
    - gws
    - groups
    - identity
    - enterprise-web-services
  - term: Identity Registration Web Service
    definition: UW-IT RESTful API (IRWS) exposing the Identity Registry — person, source-record and identifier
      data. V2 and V3 contracts are published publicly; the runtime is on a restricted network.
    tags:
    - irws
    - identity
    - registry
    - enterprise-web-services
  - term: Token Authentication Web Service
    definition: UW-IT RESTful API (TAWS) that issues the AccessToken credential accepted by the Student
      and IdCard Web Services.
    tags:
    - taws
    - authentication
    - tokens
    - enterprise-web-services
  - term: ASTRA
    definition: UW's authorization system. SWS resources name required ASTRA roles (sws:Support, sws:UnitReader,
      sws:GradeSubmitter and others) in their operation descriptions.
    tags:
    - astra
    - authorization
    - roles
  - term: UW NetID
    definition: The University of Washington's personal identifier and sign-in credential, federated through
      Microsoft Entra ID for the Enterprise Web Services estate.
    tags:
    - netid
    - identity
    - authentication
  - term: ResearchWorks
    definition: UW Libraries' institutional repository, running DSpace 9.2 on digital.lib.washington.edu
      with an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint.
    tags:
    - researchworks
    - dspace
    - oai-pmh
    - repository
  - term: InCommon
    definition: The US research and education identity federation. UW's Shibboleth IdP is registered as
      urn:mace:incommon:washington.edu, and InCommon client certificates gate the Groups Web Service.
    tags:
    - incommon
    - federation
    - saml
    - shibboleth
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: derived
source: openapi/_original/*.yaml and live probes run 2026-08-30
x-operator: institution