Eindhoven University of Technology

aid: eindhoven-university-of-technology
name: Eindhoven University of Technology
x-type: university
x-category: Technical University
description: 'Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a public technical university in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and
  one of the four institutions of the 4TU federation. It operates no public developer portal, publishes no institution-authored
  API contract, and offers no self-serve API keys — and this profile says so rather than padding the gap. Everything machine-readable
  that carries the TU/e name is a deployment of somebody else''s software: the TU/e Research Portal and its Pure Web Service
  REST API are Elsevier Pure 5.35.x running at pure.tue.nl, the student mobile app at osiris.tue.nl is Caci Osiris, library
  discovery is OCLC WorldCat, and research datasets are minted through the 4TU.ResearchData Figshare consortium. What TU/e
  genuinely operates on its own domain is narrower and real: a live, fully conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint at pure.tue.nl/ws/oai
  serving seven metadata formats and the OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 CRIS profile, and a SAML 2.0 identity-provider entity registered
  in the SURFconext federation and so reachable through eduGAIN. Thirty-seven OpenAPI documents previously attributed to TU/e
  in this repository were Elsevier''s Pure product contract (info.title "Pure …", contact pure-support@elsevier.com, relative
  servers "/ws/api", shipped identically by nine other universities) and have been removed; the tenant relationships they
  described are recorded here instead. Departmental research groups publish open source across many separate GitHub organizations,
  but the university runs no single official engineering org.'
type: Index
x-operator-summary:
  institution: 0
  tenant: 3
  vendor_removed: 38
  note: No surface in this repository is institution-authored. The three tenant surfaces are real institutional facts — TU/e's
    repository, TU/e's metadata, TU/e's federation identity — running on contracts TU/e did not write.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Vendor-hosted deployments under the institution's own domain
  confidence: high
  source:
  - live probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Open metadata harvesting, no signup; everything else is affiliation-gated
  confidence: high
  source:
  - live probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/eindhoven-university-of-technology.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eindhoven-university-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Technical University
- Netherlands
- Europe
- 4TU
- Research Data
- Research Information
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Open Metadata
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: eindhoven-university-of-technology:research-oai-pmh
  name: TU/e Research Portal OAI-PMH
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-note: Institution-hosted, vendor-authored. The endpoint is on TU/e's own registrable domain and its admin contact
    is pure@tue.nl, so the deployment and the metadata are TU/e's — but the software is Elsevier Pure and the protocol is
    OAI's. Recorded as a tenant relationship, which is the honest answer, rather than credited to TU/e as engineering.
  description: 'Live OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the TU/e Research Portal, served by Elsevier Pure at TU/e''s own
    pure.tue.nl. Verified with a real harvest, not link presence: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository",
    adminEmail pure@tue.nl and earliestDatestamp 2015-11-10; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns seven prefixes (oai_cerif_openaire,
    mods, nl_didl, oai_dc, xmetadiss, qdc, uketd_dc); verb=ListSets returns the OpenAIRE CRIS entity sets plus per-year publication
    sets back to 1937; and verb=ListRecords over set=openaire_cris_persons returns real cerif:Person records with a resumptionToken.
    The Identify response asserts OpenAIRE CERIF profile 1.2 compatibility. No key, no signup.'
  humanURL: https://research.tue.nl/
  baseURL: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Information
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - OpenAIRE
  - CERIF
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research.tue.nl/
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/eindhoven-university-of-technology-conformance.yml
- aid: eindhoven-university-of-technology:pure-web-service
  name: TU/e Pure Web Service (Elsevier Pure deployment)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-note: The contract is Elsevier's. Pure API 5.35.3-4 declares info.title "Pure API", contact pure-support@elsevier.com
    and a relative servers entry "/ws/api" — it carries no host at all, and nine other universities in this catalog ship the
    identical document. The deployment at pure.tue.nl is TU/e's; the specification is not, and is deliberately NOT stored
    in this repo.
  description: 'TU/e''s deployment of the Elsevier Pure Web Service REST API, the research-information (CRIS) interface behind
    the TU/e Research Portal. The deployment''s own generated documentation is live and public at pure.tue.nl/ws/api/documentation/index.html;
    the API itself is api-key gated and is not self-serve. No OpenAPI is registered here on purpose: the contract belongs
    to Elsevier Pure, not to TU/e, and crediting it to the institution is exactly the misattribution this profile was rebuilt
    to remove.'
  humanURL: https://research.tue.nl/
  baseURL: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - CRIS
  - Elsevier Pure
  - Vendor Platform
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/api/documentation/index.html
- aid: eindhoven-university-of-technology:surfconext-saml-idp
  name: TU/e SAML Identity Provider (SURFconext / eduGAIN)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-note: TU/e's own federation identity, registered under TU/e's name with TU/e's organisation URL — but the entityID
    resolves to a Microsoft Entra ID tenant and the SSO endpoint is SURFconext's proxy. TU/e operates the identity; Microsoft
    and SURF operate the machinery.
  description: TU/e's SAML 2.0 identity-provider entity as published in the SURFconext federation metadata, which feeds eduGAIN.
    The EntityDescriptor carries OrganizationName "Technische Universiteit Eindhoven" / "Eindhoven University of Technology",
    OrganizationURL https://www.tue.nl/, and entityID https://sts.windows.net/cc7df247-60ce-4a0f-9d75-704cf60efc64/. This
    is the one surface class in the university cohort that is machine-readable by definition and almost never catalogued,
    which is why it is registered here as a first-class entry rather than left as a footnote.
  humanURL: https://www.surf.nl/en/services/identity-access-management/surfconext
  baseURL: https://metadata.surfconext.nl/idps-metadata.xml
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - SURFconext
  - eduGAIN
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/eindhoven-university-of-technology-conformance.yml
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: tenant_only
  detail: 'TU/e publishes no institution-authored API contract and operates no developer portal. Every machine-readable surface
    found is a vendor''s product running under TU/e''s name: Elsevier Pure (research portal, Pure Web Service, OAI-PMH), Caci
    Osiris (student mobile), OCLC WorldCat (library discovery), Figshare via the 4TU.ResearchData consortium (datasets), and
    Microsoft Entra ID behind SURFconext (identity). Three of those are TU/e''s own deployments and are recorded as tenant
    surfaces; the rest belong in the vendors'' own repositories. The one fully public, keyless, verified-by-real-request surface
    is the OAI-PMH endpoint. Probed and NOT found, so the absence is measured rather than assumed: data.tue.nl, api.tue.nl,
    developer.tue.nl, opendata.tue.nl, ooapi.tue.nl, api.ooapi.tue.nl, idp.tue.nl, login.tue.nl, sts.tue.nl, sis.tue.nl, mytimetable.tue.nl
    and rooster.tue.nl all fail to resolve in DNS — they are not gated, they do not exist. purefaq.tue.nl, the Pure FAQ this
    repo previously carried as a Documentation pointer, now returns a deliberate TU/e "Off-site access blocked" page: it is
    VPN/campus-network-only, so it is recorded as evidence here and removed as a pointer. TU/e is named by SURF as a 2019
    Open Onderwijs API (OOAPI) participant, but Dutch OOAPI endpoints are SURFconext-gated and none is publicly discoverable.
    github.com/TUEIndhoven resolves but holds zero public repositories; the departmental orgs (tue-datastewards, tue-robotics,
    tue-mdse, tue-aga, TUe-ICTLab, 3DCP-TUe) are research-group code, not an institutional API programme.'
  checked: '2026-08-30'
  evidence:
  - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0 live; repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository"; adminEmail pure@tue.nl; OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2.
  - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
    note: Seven metadata prefixes served.
  - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_cerif_openaire&set=openaire_cris_persons
    status: 200
    note: Real records returned (110,958 bytes, cerif:Person, resumptionToken) — a harvest, not a link check.
  - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/api/documentation/index.html
    status: 200
    note: Elsevier Pure Web Service generated documentation for TU/e's deployment; the API itself is api-key gated.
  - url: https://metadata.surfconext.nl/idps-metadata.xml
    status: 200
    note: TU/e SAML 2.0 IdP EntityDescriptor present in the SURFconext federation metadata.
  - url: https://www.tue.nl/en/
    status: 200
    note: Institutional website; no developer, API or docs section anywhere in navigation.
  - url: https://www.tue.nl/llms.txt
    status: 404
    note: No llms.txt (soft-404 — returns the 246KB site 404 page, not an empty body).
  - url: https://purefaq.tue.nl/pure/faq/index.php?action=overview
    status: 403
    note: 'Deliberate institutional gate, not a bot block: body is TU/e''s own "Off-site access blocked — only accessible
      via the TU/e network or the TU/e VPN" page. Removed as a pointer.'
  - url: https://research.tue.nl/en/organisations/
    status: 403
    note: Pure portal edge challenge; research.tue.nl root is 200, so the host is live.
  - url: https://osiris.tue.nl/
    status: 200
    note: SPA shell only (2,931 bytes, title "Osiris Student Mobile"); its CSP names the vendor backend rontw.osiris-student.nl.
      Caci vendor product, not a TU/e API.
  - url: https://tue.on.worldcat.org/discovery
    status: 200
    note: OCLC WorldCat Discovery SPA shell — vendor library discovery, no institution-operated catalog API.
  - url: https://data.4tu.nl/search?q=&categories=&organizations=Eindhoven%20University%20of%20Technology
    status: 200
    note: 4TU.ResearchData (Figshare) consortium repository; TU/e is one of four member institutions, not the operator.
  - url: https://www.tueindhoven.ai/education/guidelines/index.html
    status: 200
    note: TU/e Framework for AI in Engineering Education; adopted by the educational board and program directors in 2024.
      Governance document, not an API.
  - url: https://www.tue.nl/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
    note: PGP-signed security.txt, Expires 2027-02-09; contact and policy both the TU/e CERT RFC 2350 document.
  - url: https://github.com/TUEIndhoven
    status: 200
    note: TU/e GitHub organization exists but publishes zero public repositories.
  - url: https://educationguide.tue.nl/
    status: 200
    note: Course catalog is a rendered web guide; /api and /openapi.json both 404. No public course API.
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tue.nl/en/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://research.tue.nl/
  name: TU/e Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) — tenant
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://data.4tu.nl/search?q=&categories=&organizations=Eindhoven%20University%20of%20Technology
  name: 4TU.ResearchData — TU/e datasets in the four-university Figshare consortium
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://metadata.surfconext.nl/idps-metadata.xml
  name: TU/e SAML 2.0 IdP entity in SURFconext / eduGAIN
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://educationguide.tue.nl/
  name: TU/e Education Guide (rendered catalog; no public API)
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.tueindhoven.ai/education/guidelines/index.html
  name: TU/e Framework for AI in Engineering Education
- type: Documentation
  url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/api/documentation/index.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.tue.nl/en/storage/disclaimer
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/about-the-university/support-services/library-and-information-services/privacy
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/TUEIndhoven
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tue-datastewards
  name: TU/e Data Stewards — research data management tooling
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/eindhoven-university-of-technology/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/eindhoven-university-of-technology-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/eindhoven-university-of-technology-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/eindhoven-university-of-technology-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/eindhoven-university-of-technology-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/eindhoven-university-of-technology-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/eindhoven-university-of-technology-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com