course catalogue 

all courses listed

example: xcri

Institutional Identifier 

A URI which can be used as instiutional identifier

University organisational structure 

Show all faculties/schools/departments/services

e.g. using http://vocab.org/aiiso/schema

get university Hierarchy & courses 

an api to query the departmental/school structure of a university, either the whole structure or a sub-part (departments in social sciences).

Also provide courses affiliated to a school, and potential details about those courses (description, entry requirements etc). Useful for sites which provide information about Uk HEI courses, such as HERO or newspapers.

The two concepts decribed above (courses/structure) could e split in to two seperate apis.

Potentially useful schema to return data in
http://vocab.org/aiiso/schema-20080514

Institutional Address 

The location(s) for the institution

e.g. FOAF?

University staff directory 

Access to names / departments / web pages / perhaps contact details