--- name: Victoria University of Wellington description: Victoria University of Wellington public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/review.yml created: '2026-06-03' modified: '2026-08-30' reviews: - date: '2026-06-03' rating: 2 summary: >- No centralized, branded developer portal exists for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. The verifiable public, machine- readable footprint is standards-based scholarly and library infrastructure: a Figshare-hosted Open Access repository exposing a live OAI-PMH feed (set portal_771) and the public Figshare v2 REST API, plus an Ex Libris Primo (Te Waharoa, VID 64VUW_INST:VUWNUI) discovery service backed by Alma. Two public GitHub organizations were confirmed (victoriauniversity web UI toolkit, VUW-Library engineering). An undocumented JSON globalobject endpoint on the main website also responds. All endpoints below were probed live; no endpoints were fabricated. endpoints: - url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/ status: 200 note: Official university website (Te Herenga Waka). - url: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=portal_771 status: 200 note: OAI-PMH feed; live, returns VUW article identifiers under portal_771. - url: https://api.figshare.com/v2/articles?page_size=1 status: 200 note: Public Figshare v2 REST API powering the Open Access repository. - url: https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/ status: 202 note: Figshare-powered Open Access research repository portal (challenge/JS gate, resolves). - url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI status: 200 note: Primo (Te Waharoa) discovery search; Alma-backed, VID 64VUW_INST:VUWNUI. - url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject status: 200 note: Undocumented public JSON CMS config endpoint (baseUrls, logo, nav). - url: https://github.com/victoriauniversity status: 200 note: Official GitHub org; web UI kit/styles/toolkit repos. - url: https://github.com/VUW-Library status: 200 note: Wellington University Library GitHub org (libguides, DSpace, figshare-oaipmh-proxy). - url: https://studentrecords.vuw.ac.nz/ status: 200 note: Student records SSO login portal; gated, no public API documented. - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/victoria-university-of-wellington/ status: 999 note: LinkedIn school page; 999 is LinkedIn anti-bot, page exists in browser. - date: '2026-08-30' rating: 2 summary: >- Re-profiled under the API Evangelist university pipeline, whose organising question is who OPERATES a surface, not whether a specification exists. The June 2026 review credited "the public Figshare v2 REST API" to this institution and a Figshare contract was saved into the repository as the university's own; that contract and the fifteen artifacts derived from it have been removed, and the Figshare relationship is now recorded as a tenancy instead. Three surfaces the institution genuinely operates were confirmed: the undocumented globalobject JSON endpoint, a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider registered in the Tuakiri New Zealand Access Federation since 2012 (REFEDS R&S, Sirtfi), and a self-hosted WSO2 Identity Server fronting student records. Six tenancies were recorded without saving their vendors' contracts: Figshare, Ex Libris Primo/Alma, Instructure Canvas, Symplectic Elements, Ellucian Banner and Microsoft Entra ID. Two further registrable domains the institution owns — vuw.ac.nz and victoria.ac.nz — were registered in the cohort affiliates file; without them, two of its own hosts audited as unattributable. Rating held at 2: the correction improves the profile's accuracy, not the institution's footprint, which remains genuinely minimal. All endpoints probed live; none fabricated. endpoints: - url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/api/globalobject status: 200 note: Institution-operated. Public keyless JSON; CORS open to all origins; JSON body under a text/html Content-Type. - url: https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth status: 200 note: Institution-operated. SAML 2.0 IdP metadata, entityID https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, scope vuw.ac.nz. - url: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml status: 200 note: Tuakiri signed federation aggregate; carries the VUW entity, registered 2012-06-26, REFEDS R&S + Sirtfi. - url: https://auth-eis.vuw.ac.nz/scim2/ServiceProviderConfig status: 403 note: Institution-operated self-hosted WSO2 Identity Server; WAF-blocked. Live and protected, not absent. - url: https://studentrecords.vuw.ac.nz/ status: 200 note: Tenant. Ellucian Banner Self-Service, self-hosted; redirects into the WSO2 SAML flow. No public API. - url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=alma.all_for_ui=maori&maximumRecords=2 status: 200 note: Tenant. Ex Libris Primo/Alma SRU 1.2, keyless; returned 20,136 matching MARCXML records. - url: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=portal_771 status: 200 note: Tenant. Figshare's shared OAI-PMH endpoint; the setSpec portal_771 is the institution's, the interface is not. - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/figshare.vuw status: 200 note: Tenant. DataCite repository FIGSHARE.VUW, active since 2021-06-10, 4,301 DOIs. - url: https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/ status: 202 note: Tenant. Figshare portal on the institution's vanity domain; x-amzn-waf-action challenge. Live, bot-gated. - url: https://nuku.wgtn.ac.nz/api/v1/courses status: 401 note: Tenant. Instructure Canvas REST API; unauthenticated JSON error confirms a live deployment. - url: https://elements.wgtn.ac.nz/ status: 401 note: Tenant. Symplectic Elements, CNAME vuw.elements.symplectic.org. - url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/cfe63e23-6951-427e-8683-bb84dcf1d20c/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration status: 200 note: Tenant. The university's Microsoft Entra ID tenant; production browser sign-on. - url: https://vuw-research-computing.github.io/raapoi-docs/ status: 200 note: Institution-operated Rāpoi HPC cluster documentation; the only currently active GitHub org. - url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/sitemap-courses.xml status: 200 note: Machine-readable index of 12,160 course-year pages. A catalogue, not an interface. - url: https://data.wgtn.ac.nz/ status: 0 note: Does not resolve. No CKAN or Socrata open-data portal exists. - url: https://api.wgtn.ac.nz/ status: 0 note: Does not resolve. No central API host. - url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/.well-known/security.txt status: 421 note: No RFC 9116 security.txt; the edge returns 421 rather than 404. - url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/llms.txt status: 404 note: No llms.txt published.