ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare API)

ZivaHub is UCT's institutional open data repository for research data and scholarly outputs, powered by Figshare for Institutions and certified with the CoreTrustSeal in 2025. Public ZivaHub content is accessible programmatically through the public Figshare REST API, which provides article, collection, and project metadata in JSON.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: university-of-cape-town:zivahub-figshare
name: ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare API)
description: ZivaHub is UCT's institutional open data repository for research data and scholarly outputs,
  powered by Figshare for Institutions and certified with the CoreTrustSeal in 2025. Public ZivaHub content
  is accessible programmatically through the public Figshare REST API, which provides article, collection,
  and project metadata in JSON.
humanURL: https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/
baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
tags:
- Open Data
- Research Data
- Figshare
- Repository
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/