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  "public-sector",
  "knowledge-management"
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 "deployment": "saas",
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  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "Sikt presents NVA as the national service that registers and opens research results in one platform, combining Cristin CRIS functions with institutional open archives.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "vendor",
   "note": "Sikt owns and operates NVA as an AWS-hosted national service. Entity registers for organization, person, and project are operated by USIT at the University of Oslo.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "NVA is a national Sikt service billed as a one-time startup fee plus an annual service fee based on FoU-\u00e5rsverk. It is not a commercial CRIS product sale.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "status",
   "note": "Full production is dated 1 October 2025 after migration from Cristin and Brage. Those predecessors were closed at the end of 2025. A consolidation phase is described for spring 2026.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "Service terms state that NVA publishes information through a web interface and API, including APIs for transferring student theses.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "The opened README lists production REST at https://api.nva.unit.no and test at https://api.test.nva.aws.unit.no, with Swagger UI at https://swagger-ui.nva.unit.no/.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/README.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[1]",
   "note": "The README states that the data format used across the NVA platform is JSON-LD. Versioning uses an Accept version property when a breaking change is required.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/README.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "Institutions request API access from kontakt@sikt.no and receive clientId and clientSecret. Tokens are obtained with OAuth 2.0 client_credentials and HTTP Basic against nva-prod-ext.auth.eu-west-1.amazoncognito.com (production). The access token is sent as Authorization: Bearer and is valid 900 seconds. Most read endpoints are open; unauthenticated requests may be throttled under load.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/authenticating/index.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Sikt states that much of the NVA API is open. Customer institutions can request an access key that prioritises them in the queue. Student-thesis publishing must use the NVA API to write; Cristin REST can only read. Person-register updates are not supported on the API today.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva/hjelpeside-nva/sporsmal-og-svar-om-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Publication search is documented on GET /search/resources with filters including contributor, title, category, doi, orcid, and institution. Fetch-by-id examples send a Bearer token.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/publication.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "Opened as the current public NVA API documentation README, including servers, Swagger UI, versioning rules, and scenario links.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/README.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[0]",
   "note": "Clients exchange Sikt-issued client credentials for a Bearer token and call the REST API. The README also asks callers to send a User-Agent that includes a contact email.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/authenticating/index.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "Publication and search responses are JSON-LD documents with @context, including associatedArtifacts for published files.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/publication.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[0]",
   "note": "Student-thesis deposit is documented as POST /publication with JSON-LD metadata, file identifiers, and Authorization: Bearer.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/upload-student-thesis/index.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "https://sikt.no/llms.txt returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-10. https://nva.sikt.no/llms.txt also returned 404.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/llms.txt",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "A documented REST/JSON-LD API with open reads, Swagger UI, and OAuth2 writes is a usable production path. Institution-issued clients, 900-second tokens, throttling without a key, and no person-register write keep it in the useful-with-limits band.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/authenticating/index.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as Sikt's current NVA service page, including the 2025 cutover and API mention in the terms.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current NVA FAQ, including open-API, access-key, and Cristin-REST transition answers.",
   "source": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva/hjelpeside-nva/sporsmal-og-svar-om-nva",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current public NVA API documentation repository and README.",
   "source": "https://github.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened the production Swagger UI host. It serves the standard Swagger UI shell for the NVA API.",
   "source": "https://swagger-ui.nva.unit.no/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[4].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current client-credentials authentication scenario.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/authenticating/index.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
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  "last_verified": "2026-09-10",
  "volatility": "medium",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva/hjelpeside-nva/sporsmal-og-svar-om-nva"
   },
   {
    "type": "repo",
    "url": "https://github.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://swagger-ui.nva.unit.no/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation/main/scenarios/authenticating/index.md"
   }
  ]
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 "homepage": "https://sikt.no/tjenester/nasjonalt-vitenarkiv-nva",
 "id": "sikt-nva",
 "license": "free",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": false
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "oauth2-client-credentials"
   ],
   "coverage": "partial",
   "docs": "https://github.com/BIBSYSDEV/nva-api-documentation",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest",
    "json-ld"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": "unknown"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "json-ld"
   ],
   "import": [
    "json-ld"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [
    "oauth2-client"
   ],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": "unknown",
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "unknown"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. The NVA web service at nva.sikt.no uses Feide or ID-porten. The documented machine path is the NVA REST API, not browser control of a researcher or curator session.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": "unknown",
   "languages": [],
   "official": "unknown"
  }
 },
 "name": "Nasjonalt vitenarkiv (NVA)",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "sikt-fs"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Sikt",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 6,
   "cli": null,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": null,
   "overall": 6,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "Nasjonalt vitenarkiv is automatable as Sikt's national CRIS and open-access archive, not as Cristin, Brage, or Sikt FS. Cristin and Brage were closed at the end of 2025 after production cutover on 1 October 2025. Production REST is https://api.nva.unit.no with Swagger UI at https://swagger-ui.nva.unit.no/. Payloads are JSON-LD. Many search and person read endpoints are open; unauthenticated traffic may be throttled. Institution clients obtain OAuth 2.0 client-credentials tokens from Amazon Cognito after requesting a clientId and clientSecret from Sikt. Writes such as student-thesis deposit need that Bearer token. Person-register updates are not available over the API today. Web login is Feide or ID-porten. First-party MCP ownership is not established. Computer-use viability is unassessed.\n"
 }
}