Technical University of Denmark

aid: dtu
name: Technical University of Denmark
x-type: university
x-category: Technical University
description: 'The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a technical university in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. DTU operates
  no central developer portal and publishes no OpenAPI-described public REST API of its own. Its two clearly institution-operated
  machine-readable surfaces are its identity federation — a DTU-run SAML 2.0 / WS-Federation / OpenID Connect token service
  at sts.ait.dtu.dk, registered in the Danish national federation WAYF and in eduGAIN — and the Global Wind Atlas OGC Web
  Processing Service, whose GetCapabilities document names DTU Wind Energy as the service provider with a dtu.dk contact.
  Everything that previously read as a DTU API was not: DTU Data (data.dtu.dk) is a Figshare tenant and DTU Orbit (orbit.dtu.dk)
  is an Elsevier Pure deployment, and both are recorded here as tenant relationships rather than DTU contracts. DTU Learn
  is a D2L Brightspace tenant. The course catalogue at kurser.dtu.dk is DTU-operated but sign-in gated. DTU maintains public
  GitHub organizations (dtudk, DTUWindEnergy) hosting affiliated open-source software.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - probed
  - apis.yml
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: manual
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free · affiliation or request gated
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dtu.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dtu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Technical University
- Denmark
- Europe
- Identity Federation
- Research Data
- Library
- Course Catalog
- Wind Energy
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: dtu:identity-federation
  name: DTU Identity Federation (SAML 2.0 / WS-Federation / OpenID Connect)
  x-operator: institution
  description: DTU operates its own security token service at sts.ait.dtu.dk (Microsoft AD FS) and publishes signed SAML 2.0
    metadata and an OpenID Connect discovery document, both openly and without authentication. The IdP entityID http://sts.ait.dtu.dk/adfs/services/trust
    is registered in WAYF, the Danish national identity federation, and through WAYF in eduGAIN, with schacHomeOrganization
    dtu.dk and scopes dtu.dk and guest.dtu.dk. This is DTU's own engineering on DTU's own host — the clearest institution-operated
    machine-readable surface DTU publishes. Relying-party registration is not self-service and requires institutional affiliation.
  humanURL: https://www.wayf.dk/en
  baseURL: https://sts.ait.dtu.dk/adfs
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - OpenID Connect
  - Authentication
  - eduGAIN
  properties:
  - type: x-saml-metadata
    url: https://sts.ait.dtu.dk/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
  - type: x-openid-configuration
    url: https://sts.ait.dtu.dk/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/dtu-authentication.yml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/dtu-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.wayf.dk/en/node/32
- aid: dtu:global-wind-atlas-wps
  name: Global Wind Atlas Web Processing Service
  x-operator: institution
  description: An OGC Web Processing Service 1.0.0 serving Global Wind Atlas results. The GetCapabilities document names DTU
    Wind Energy as the ows:ServiceProvider, with a Risø Campus, Roskilde address and a dtu.dk service contact, so the service
    is DTU-operated even though it is published on the project domain globalwindatlas.info rather than under dtu.dk. Fees
    are declared "None" and access constraints "none". Eight processes are offered, including get_libfile (a WAsP generalized
    wind climate for the nearest pixel), get_rose, get_spatial_stats, get_area_mean, get_temporal_stats, get_timeseries and
    get_aep. The Global Wind Atlas is a partnership between DTU's Department of Wind and Energy Systems and the World Bank
    Group.
  humanURL: https://globalwindatlas.info/
  baseURL: https://wps.globalwindatlas.info/
  tags:
  - Wind Energy
  - Geospatial
  - OGC
  - WPS
  - Research Computing
  properties:
  - type: x-ogc-capabilities
    url: https://wps.globalwindatlas.info/?service=WPS&request=GetCapabilities
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wasp.dtu.dk/wind-atlases/global-wind-atlas
  - type: Portal
    url: https://globalwindatlas.info/
- aid: dtu:findit
  name: DTU Findit — library discovery
  x-operator: institution
  description: DTU Library's discovery interface, running on DTU's own host on the open-source Blacklight stack rather than
    on a vendor SaaS domain. It publishes an OpenSearch 1.1 description document that resolves openly. Catalog responses themselves
    sit behind a verification interstitial for non-browser clients, so it is a real but only partially machine-readable surface.
    No vendor contract is saved under DTU for it.
  humanURL: https://findit.dtu.dk/
  baseURL: https://findit.dtu.dk/en/catalog
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - OpenSearch
  properties:
  - type: x-opensearch
    url: https://findit.dtu.dk/en/catalog/opensearch.xml
  - type: Portal
    url: https://findit.dtu.dk/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliotek.dtu.dk/en
- aid: dtu:dtu-data
  name: DTU Data research data repository (Figshare tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: DTU Data is DTU's institutional research data repository — DTU's records, DTU's DOIs, Figshare's platform and
    Figshare's contract. DTU records are scoped by Figshare institution id 379. The API that serves it is api.figshare.com/v2,
    a generic host every Figshare customer shares, so no OpenAPI is stored under DTU for it; the contract belongs in Figshare's
    own repo. Recording the relationship, not the contract, is deliberate. The tenant host itself sits behind an AWS WAF challenge
    for non-browser clients.
  humanURL: https://data.dtu.dk/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Figshare
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://data.dtu.dk/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- aid: dtu:orbit
  name: DTU Orbit research database (Elsevier Pure tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: DTU Orbit is DTU's research information database — publications, projects, activities, researcher and department
    profiles — deployed on Elsevier Pure. The public portal is on DTU's own host but is served behind a Cloudflare bot challenge,
    and Pure's web-service and OAI-PMH paths return an error page rather than a harvesting interface. The deployment is DTU's;
    the contract, where one exists, is Elsevier's.
  humanURL: https://orbit.dtu.dk/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Publications
  - Pure
  - Repository
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://orbit.dtu.dk/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliotek.dtu.dk/en/about-and-contact/open-science/open-science-dtu-orbit
- aid: dtu:learn
  name: DTU Learn (D2L Brightspace tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: DTU's learning management system, a D2L Brightspace deployment on a dtu.dk subdomain. Brightspace holds IMS
    Global LTI certification as a product, but that certification is D2L's and DTU publishes no LTI platform configuration
    of its own, so no LTI conformance is claimed for DTU.
  humanURL: https://learn.dtu.dk/
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - Brightspace
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://learn.dtu.dk/
- aid: dtu:course-catalog
  name: DTU course base (kurser.dtu.dk)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'DTU''s own course catalogue and timetable system, on DTU''s own host. It is not open: every path returns a
    small shell that forces a sign-in redirect, so no course data is machine-readable without institutional credentials. Recorded
    as a real institution-operated surface that is authentication gated, not as a public API.'
  humanURL: https://kurser.dtu.dk/
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Registrar
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://kurser.dtu.dk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dtu.dk/english
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://sts.ait.dtu.dk/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://data.dtu.dk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://findit.dtu.dk/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://kurser.dtu.dk/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.hpc.dtu.dk/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.ai.dtu.dk/rules/
- type: AITooling
  url: https://www.ai.dtu.dk/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/dtudk
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/DTUWindEnergy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/technical-university-of-denmark/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.dtu.dk/english/about/strategy-policy/policies/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/dtu-authentication.yml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/dtu-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dtu-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/dtu-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/dtu-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/dtu-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/all-news
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Probed on 2026-08-30. DTU publishes no OpenAPI-described public REST API and no developer portal; api.dtu.dk and
    developer.dtu.dk do not resolve. Two institution-operated machine-readable surfaces were found, verified and recorded:
    DTU''s own SAML 2.0 / WS-Federation / OpenID Connect token service at sts.ait.dtu.dk (signed metadata 200, OIDC discovery
    200, registered in WAYF and eduGAIN) and the Global Wind Atlas OGC WPS 1.0.0, whose GetCapabilities names DTU Wind Energy
    with a dtu.dk contact. DTU Findit publishes an OpenSearch descriptor on DTU''s host. The five Figshare OpenAPI contracts
    previously attributed to DTU, and the twenty-two artifacts derived from them, were removed — api.figshare.com is a generic
    vendor host claimed by four other institutions in this cohort. DTU Data and DTU Orbit are re-recorded as tenant relationships.
    No OAI-PMH endpoint on a DTU host responded, and no open data portal exists.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://sts.ait.dtu.dk/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://sts.ait.dtu.dk/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://wps.globalwindatlas.info/?service=WPS&request=GetCapabilities
    status: 200
  - url: https://findit.dtu.dk/en/catalog/opensearch.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://metadata.wayf.dk/idps.js
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ai.dtu.dk/rules/
    status: 200
  - url: https://kurser.dtu.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/
    status: 403
  - url: https://orbit.dtu.dk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 500
  - url: https://data.dtu.dk/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 202
  - url: https://api.dtu.dk/
    status: 0
  - url: https://developer.dtu.dk/
    status: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com