FDAT Repository REST API

Keyless, read-only JSON REST API of FDAT, the university's institutional research data repository, operated by the Digital Humanities Center on the InvenioRDM platform and served from the university's own host fdat.uni-tuebingen.de. Verified live 2026-09-01: GET /api/records?size=1 returns 200 application/json with 437 published records and faceted aggregations (access_status open 265 / restricted 169 / embargoed 2 / metadata-only 1, file_type, resource_type); GET /api/records/{id} returns 200 with ETag, a Link rel="linkset" header and a links object exposing doi, self_doi, parent_doi, files, media_files, versions, archive, communities, access_grants, requests and both self_iiif_manifest and self_iiif_sequence; GET /api/communities and GET /api/vocabularies/languages also return 200. Records carry DataCite DOIs under the university's own prefix (e.g. 10.57754/FDAT.zvknn-g0x34) and typed ORCID identifiers on creators. Rate limiting is advertised in headers — X-RateLimit-Limit 500, Retry-After 60. Errors are a plain JSON envelope: {"status": 404, "message": "The persistent identifier does not exist."}. The contract itself is InvenioRDM's, shared by every deployment of that software, so no OpenAPI is saved under this institution — but the deployment, the host, the admin contact and the data are Tübingen's. Note that robots.txt disallows /api for crawlers; the endpoint is open but bulk crawling is not invited.

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aid: university-of-tubingen:fdat-rest
name: FDAT Repository REST API
x-operator: institution
description: 'Keyless, read-only JSON REST API of FDAT, the university''s institutional research data
  repository, operated by the Digital Humanities Center on the InvenioRDM platform and served from the
  university''s own host fdat.uni-tuebingen.de. Verified live 2026-09-01: GET /api/records?size=1 returns
  200 application/json with 437 published records and faceted aggregations (access_status open 265 / restricted
  169 / embargoed 2 / metadata-only 1, file_type, resource_type); GET /api/records/{id} returns 200 with
  ETag, a Link rel="linkset" header and a links object exposing doi, self_doi, parent_doi, files, media_files,
  versions, archive, communities, access_grants, requests and both self_iiif_manifest and self_iiif_sequence;
  GET /api/communities and GET /api/vocabularies/languages also return 200. Records carry DataCite DOIs
  under the university''s own prefix (e.g. 10.57754/FDAT.zvknn-g0x34) and typed ORCID identifiers on creators.
  Rate limiting is advertised in headers — X-RateLimit-Limit 500, Retry-After 60. Errors are a plain JSON
  envelope: {"status": 404, "message": "The persistent identifier does not exist."}. The contract itself
  is InvenioRDM''s, shared by every deployment of that software, so no OpenAPI is saved under this institution
  — but the deployment, the host, the admin contact and the data are Tübingen''s. Note that robots.txt
  disallows /api for crawlers; the endpoint is open but bulk crawling is not invited.'
humanURL: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/249679
baseURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/api/records
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- InvenioRDM
- DataCite
- IIIF
- ORCID
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dh-center.uni-tuebingen.de/fdat-policy/faq.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/api/records
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-tubingen-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-tubingen-authentication.yml