Authoritative person and identity data for UW-Madison — names, populations, affiliations, contact points, exports and webhooks. 47 operations over 31 paths, JSON:API envelopes, OAuth 2.0 client credentials. Gated: production access requires an approved institutional request. This is the closest thing in the estate to SCIM, expressed in UW-local terms.
Person API is one of 16 APIs that University of Wisconsin-Madison publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Identity, People, and Directory. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes
47 operations
across 31 paths,
organized into 16 resource areas,
and defines 31 schemas.
It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.2, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.wisc.edu.
47 operations31 paths31 schemas6 DELETE30 GET4 PATCH7 POST
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Person API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2ClientCredentials) using the clientCredentials flow.
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 47
Across 31 paths, the API surfaces 47 operations — 6 DELETE, 30 GET, 4 PATCH, 7 POST. They span 16 resource areas, including people, identifiers, jobs, wiscard, names, academicAppointments, addresses, affiliations, and 8 more. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
The contract defines 31 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are people (6 properties), webhookRelationshipFilter (5 properties), webhookFilter (5 properties), costAllocations (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
people
object
A person.
6 properties6 required
identifiers
object
Details about an identifier associated with a person.
4 properties4 required
jobs
object
Details about a job associated with a person.
5 properties5 required
wiscard
object
Details and metadata from someone's Wiscard.
4 properties4 required
names
object
Details about a name used to refer to a person.
5 properties5 required
academicAppointments
object
Details about an academic appointment associated with a person.
4 properties4 required
addresses
object
Details about an address associated with a person.
4 properties4 required
socialSecurityNumbers
object
Details about a social security number for a person. Refer to the [SSN Documentation](https://kb.wisc.edu/uw-apis/internal/158482) for more information (login…
4 properties4 required
affiliations
object
Details about an affiliation associated with a person.
4 properties4 required
degrees
object
Details about a degree or diploma associated with a person.
4 properties4 required
phoneNumbers
object
Details about a phone number associated with a person.
4 properties4 required
emailAddresses
object
Details about an email address associated with a person.
4 properties4 required
organizationStructure
object
Details about an Organization Structure associated with a person or job.
4 properties4 required
costAllocations
object
Details about a Cost Allocation associated with a job.
5 properties5 required
worktags
object
Details about a Worktag associated with a Cost Allocation.
4 properties4 required
webhooks
object
A webhook represents the configuration for an application to subscribe to events from the Person API. Webhook events are HTTP requests that will be sent to a s…
5 properties5 required
webhookFilter
object
A webhook filter allows applications to specify who they will receive webhook events for. Refer to the [Webhooks Documentation](https://kb.wisc.edu/uw-apis/158…
5 properties4 required
webhookRelationshipFilter
object
A webhook relationship filter allows applications to specify what they will receive webhook events about. Refer to the [Webhooks Documentation](https://kb.wisc…
5 properties4 required
exports
object
An export allows applications to get bulk person data. Refer to the [Exports Documentation](https://kb.wisc.edu/uw-apis/158402) for more information.
4 properties4 required
certificates
object
A certificate. This is restricted to applications with access to the Certificates Product. Refer to the [Certificates Documentation](https://kb.wisc.edu/uw-api…
4 properties4 required
certificate
string
event
object
Details about the payloads of events sent to webhook receivers. Refer to the [Webhooks Documentation](https://kb.wisc.edu/uw-apis/158498) for more information.
4 properties4 required
sourceNames
string
The source of a name resource.
included
array
Included related resources
personRelationship
object
1 property1 required
createNameRequestData
object
The data object for name create request bodies.
2 properties2 required
updateNameRequestData
object
The data object for name update request bodies.
2 properties2 required
webhookRequestData
object
The data object for webhook create and update request bodies.
2 properties1 required
webhookFilterRequestData
object
The data object for webhook filter create and update request bodies.
2 properties1 required
webhookRelationshipFilterRequestData
object
The data object for webhook relationship filter create and update request bodies.
2 properties1 required
dateFormat
string
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