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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public research university and national research center of the Helmholtz Association in Karlsruhe, Germany, and a member of the TU9 alliance of German institutes of technology. KIT publishes no central developer portal and no institution-authored API contract: api.kit.edu, developer.kit.edu, data.kit.edu and opendata.kit.edu do not resolve at all. What it does operate, and what this profile records, is a set of standards-protocol and self-hosted surfaces on its own kit.edu domain, every one of them probed live on 2026-09-01 rather than taken from a link. The KIT Library runs an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider for the KITopen institutional repository (repositoryName "KITopen", built on the Library's own dbkit framework) and a self-hosted Koha catalogue whose REST API answers keyless on its /public path. The Scientific Computing Center runs a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider registered in the DFN-AAI federation, a Keycloak OpenID Connect realm, and the KI-Toolbox, an Open WebUI deployment serving locally hosted large language models. RADAR4KIT, KIT's research-data repository, is a tenancy on FIZ Karlsruhe's RADAR service running on KIT infrastructure. KIT is a DataCite direct member and a Crossref member in its own right. Three of these surfaces answer with a product's generic contract (Koha, RADAR, Open WebUI) rather than KIT's own engineering; the deployments are recorded here and those contracts are deliberately not saved under KIT's name.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: KIT Library Catalogue REST API (self-hosted Koha). Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Technical University, and Germany.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, support, engineering blog, and 24 more developer resources.

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EducationHigher EducationUniversityTechnical UniversityGermanyEuropeResearchResearch DataOpen AccessOpen ScienceInstitutional RepositoryLibraryOAI-PMHIdentity FederationShibbolethResearch ComputingTU9Helmholtz Association

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

KITopen OAI-PMH Interface

KITopen is KIT's central open-access institutional repository for the bibliographic data, full texts, images, research data and AV media of KIT scientists. It is built on dbkit,...

KIT Library Catalogue REST API (self-hosted Koha)

The KIT Library self-hosts Koha, the open-source integrated library system, at katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu, and its REST API is live and served from KIT's own registrable domain....

RADAR4KIT Research Data Repository (RADAR tenancy)

RADAR4KIT is KIT's interdisciplinary research-data repository for archiving and publishing research data with DOI assignment. It is a tenancy on the RADAR service operated by FI...

DFN-AAI Identity Federation — KIT Shibboleth Identity Provider

The Scientific Computing Center operates KIT's Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider and publishes its metadata as application/xml from KIT's own host. Verified 2026-09-01: enti...

KIT OpenID Connect Provider (SCC Keycloak realm)

Separately from the Shibboleth IdP, the Scientific Computing Center operates a Keycloak OpenID Connect provider for the "kit" realm on KIT's own domain. Verified 2026-09-01: the...

KI-Toolbox — KIT Generative AI Service (Open WebUI)

The Scientific Computing Center operates the KI-Toolbox, KIT's generative-AI service for staff, students and guest accounts, on KIT's own host. It fronts large language models h...

DataCite Membership — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

KIT is a DataCite direct member, registering DOIs for its own research output rather than through a consortium proxy. Verified 2026-09-01 at https://api.datacite.org/providers/k...

Crossref Membership — KIT Library

The KIT Library is a Crossref member in its own right, depositing DOIs under the prefix 10.58895. Verified 2026-09-01 at https://api.crossref.org/members/37766 (200): primary-na...

ROR Registry Record — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

KIT's Research Organization Registry identifier, https://ror.org/04t3en479, verified live 2026-09-01 against https://api.ror.org/organizations/04t3en479 (200). The record carrie...

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Context

19 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology
name: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
x-type: university
x-category: Technical University
description: 'Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public research university and national research center of the
  Helmholtz Association in Karlsruhe, Germany, and a member of the TU9 alliance of German institutes of technology. KIT publishes
  no central developer portal and no institution-authored API contract: api.kit.edu, developer.kit.edu, data.kit.edu and opendata.kit.edu
  do not resolve at all. What it does operate, and what this profile records, is a set of standards-protocol and self-hosted
  surfaces on its own kit.edu domain, every one of them probed live on 2026-09-01 rather than taken from a link. The KIT Library
  runs an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider for the KITopen institutional repository (repositoryName "KITopen", built on the Library''s
  own dbkit framework) and a self-hosted Koha catalogue whose REST API answers keyless on its /public path. The Scientific
  Computing Center runs a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider registered in the DFN-AAI federation, a Keycloak OpenID Connect
  realm, and the KI-Toolbox, an Open WebUI deployment serving locally hosted large language models. RADAR4KIT, KIT''s research-data
  repository, is a tenancy on FIZ Karlsruhe''s RADAR service running on KIT infrastructure. KIT is a DataCite direct member
  and a Crossref member in its own right. Three of these surfaces answer with a product''s generic contract (Koha, RADAR,
  Open WebUI) rather than KIT''s own engineering; the deployments are recorded here and those contracts are deliberately not
  saved under KIT''s name.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Technical University
- Germany
- Europe
- Research
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Open Science
- Institutional Repository
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- Research Computing
- TU9
- Helmholtz Association
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:kitopen-oai
  x-operator: institution
  name: KITopen OAI-PMH Interface
  description: 'KITopen is KIT''s central open-access institutional repository for the bibliographic data, full texts, images,
    research data and AV media of KIT scientists. It is built on dbkit, the web application framework the KIT Library wrote
    and operates itself, and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface on KIT''s own domain. Verified 2026-09-01:
    verb=Identify returns repositoryName "KITopen", protocolVersion 2.0, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord "transient",
    earliestDatestamp 1999-01-27T00:00:00Z, adminEmail dbkit@bibliothek.kit.edu and repositoryIdentifier EVASTAR-Karlsruhe.de.
    verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises three prefixes (oai_dc, epicur, oai_datacite) and verb=ListSets serves a set hierarchy
    including open_access, openaire, openaire_data, dnb:dissertations and twenty document-type sets. Bibliographic metadata
    is published under CC0. This is the one surface in this repository that is unambiguously KIT''s own engineering.'
  humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php
  baseURL: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - Library
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
  - type: Identify
    url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=Identify
  - type: MetadataFormats
    url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats
  - type: Sets
    url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListSets
  - type: Repository
    url: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:library-catalog-api
  x-operator: institution
  name: KIT Library Catalogue REST API (self-hosted Koha)
  description: 'The KIT Library self-hosts Koha, the open-source integrated library system, at katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu,
    and its REST API is live and served from KIT''s own registrable domain. Verified 2026-09-01: /api/v1/ returns a 739 KB
    Swagger 2.0 document declaring host katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu, basePath /api/v1, 242 paths and 103 definitions, of which
    sixteen sit under /public and need no credentials. /api/v1/public/libraries answers 200 with KIT''s own branch records
    (Bibliothek Campus Nord, service@bibliothek.kit.edu); staff endpoints such as /api/v1/libraries correctly answer 401.
    The DEPLOYMENT, the host and the data are KIT''s. The CONTRACT is not: info.contact names the Koha Development Team at
    koha-community.org and the document ships identically with every Koha install, so it is recorded here and deliberately
    NOT saved under KIT''s name. Koha''s OAI-PMH provider is not enabled on this instance (/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl returns a
    Koha error page).'
  humanURL: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/
  baseURL: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/api/v1/
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - Library
  - Catalog
  - Koha
  - REST
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/about-us.php
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/api/v1/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/api/v1/.html
  - type: x-public-endpoint
    url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/api/v1/public/libraries
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:radar4kit
  x-operator: tenant
  name: RADAR4KIT Research Data Repository (RADAR tenancy)
  description: 'RADAR4KIT is KIT''s interdisciplinary research-data repository for archiving and publishing research data
    with DOI assignment. It is a tenancy on the RADAR service operated by FIZ Karlsruhe, served on KIT''s own host radar.kit.edu
    with data stored exclusively on KIT IT infrastructure at the Scientific Computing Center. Verified 2026-09-01: radar.kit.edu
    redirects to /radar/en/home (200) and the backend at /radar-backend/ answers 401 with a JSON error body, so the API is
    live and correctly gated. Access requires an OAuth 2.0 client ID and a dedicated API user activated by RADAR; Shibboleth
    accounts are not accepted for API access. The RADAR Archive API contract — contracts, workspaces, datasets, folders, files,
    WebDAV upload — is FIZ Karlsruhe''s product and is documented on their host; it is NOT saved under KIT''s name. What is
    KIT''s is the tenancy, the data, and the DOIs: DataCite registers repository client TIB.KIT4RADAR named "RADAR4KIT" pointing
    at https://radar.kit.edu/.'
  humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/radar4kit.php
  baseURL: https://radar.kit.edu/radar-backend/
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - REST
  - Authentication
  - DOI
  - FIZ Karlsruhe
  tags_raw:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - REST
  - OAuth
  - DOI
  - FIZ Karlsruhe
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/radar4kit.php
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/radar-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/radar-api
  - type: Repository
    url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013466
  - type: x-datacite-client
    url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/tib.kit4radar
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:shibboleth-idp
  x-operator: federation
  name: DFN-AAI Identity Federation — KIT Shibboleth Identity Provider
  description: 'The Scientific Computing Center operates KIT''s Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider and publishes its metadata
    as application/xml from KIT''s own host. Verified 2026-09-01: entityID https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth, an EntityDescriptor
    carrying both an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor with protocolSupportEnumeration urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol
    and four SingleSignOnService bindings (HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and SOAP/ECP); mdui:DisplayName
    "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)". The mdrpi:RegistrationInfo names registrationAuthority https://www.aai.dfn.de
    with registrationInstant 2010-03-15, and the entity carries the entity-category http://aai.dfn.de/category/bwidm-member,
    so KIT is a registered participant in the German national research-and-education federation DFN-AAI and in bwIDM. The
    self-served copy of the metadata is NOT XML-DSig signed — the signed copy is the federation''s aggregate. A federation
    is shared by definition; the IdP entity behind it is KIT''s, and the federation''s own contract is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://www.aai.dfn.de/
  baseURL: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - DFN-AAI
  properties:
  - type: SAMLMetadata
    url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: JSONWebKeySet
    url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/profile/oidc/keyset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.aai.dfn.de/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:scc-oidc
  x-operator: institution
  name: KIT OpenID Connect Provider (SCC Keycloak realm)
  description: 'Separately from the Shibboleth IdP, the Scientific Computing Center operates a Keycloak OpenID Connect provider
    for the "kit" realm on KIT''s own domain. Verified 2026-09-01: the discovery document at /auth/realms/kit/.well-known/openid-configuration
    returns 200 with issuer https://oidc.scc.kit.edu/auth/realms/kit, an authorization endpoint, a token endpoint, a JWKS
    at /protocol/openid-connect/certs, and eleven grant types including authorization_code, client_credentials, device_code,
    jwt-bearer, token-exchange, uma-ticket and CIBA. This is the OAuth 2.0 / OIDC surface KIT services authenticate against
    and it is institution-operated. Keycloak''s own admin REST contract is the product''s, not KIT''s, and is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/services/servicedesk.php
  baseURL: https://oidc.scc.kit.edu/auth/realms/kit
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - Identity
  - OpenID Connect
  - Authentication
  - SSO
  - Keycloak
  properties:
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://oidc.scc.kit.edu/auth/realms/kit/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: JSONWebKeySet
    url: https://oidc.scc.kit.edu/auth/realms/kit/protocol/openid-connect/certs
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:ki-toolbox
  x-operator: institution
  name: KI-Toolbox — KIT Generative AI Service (Open WebUI)
  description: 'The Scientific Computing Center operates the KI-Toolbox, KIT''s generative-AI service for staff, students
    and guest accounts, on KIT''s own host. It fronts large language models hosted locally at the SCC alongside Azure OpenAI
    models, and is gated behind the KIT Account via OIDC. Verified 2026-09-01: /api/config returns 200 with name "KI-Toolbox
    (Open WebUI)", version 0.10.2, oauth.providers.oidc "KIT-Account", enable_signup false and enable_login_form false; /api/v1/models
    correctly answers 401. The deployment publishes a live OpenAPI 3.1.0 document at /openapi.json with 458 paths and 298
    schemas — but its info.title is "Open WebUI", it declares no servers[] block, and it is byte-for-byte the upstream product''s
    contract. It is therefore recorded as a KIT-operated deployment and the contract is deliberately NOT saved under KIT''s
    name. This is the most substantial machine-readable surface KIT operates, and none of it is KIT-authored.'
  humanURL: https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/services/ki-toolbox.php
  baseURL: https://ki-toolbox.scc.kit.edu
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Large Language Models
  - Open WebUI
  - Authentication
  - Research Computing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/services/ki-toolbox.php
  - type: x-openapi-upstream
    url: https://ki-toolbox.scc.kit.edu/openapi.json
  - type: x-public-endpoint
    url: https://ki-toolbox.scc.kit.edu/api/config
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:datacite-member
  x-operator: registry
  name: DataCite Membership — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  description: 'KIT is a DataCite direct member, registering DOIs for its own research output rather than through a consortium
    proxy. Verified 2026-09-01 at https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit (200): id "kit", symbol KIT, name "Karlsruhe Institute
    of Technology", memberType direct_member, country DE, rorId https://ror.org/04t3en479, member since 2020-12-15. The RADAR4KIT
    repository is registered as DataCite client TIB.KIT4RADAR pointing at https://radar.kit.edu/. KITopen''s OAI-PMH provider
    serves the oai_datacite metadata prefix, so the DataCite schema is declared inside a contract KIT operates rather than
    only claimed in prose. This is a MEMBERSHIP — a fact about KIT — not a KIT-operated API; DataCite''s contract is DataCite''s
    and is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit
  baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Registry
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit
  - type: x-datacite-client
    url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/tib.kit4radar
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:crossref-member
  x-operator: registry
  name: Crossref Membership — KIT Library
  description: 'The KIT Library is a Crossref member in its own right, depositing DOIs under the prefix 10.58895. Verified
    2026-09-01 at https://api.crossref.org/members/37766 (200): primary-name "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Library",
    location Karlsruhe, Germany, 456 deposited DOIs. This is a registry MEMBERSHIP, not a KIT-operated API; Crossref''s contract
    is Crossref''s and is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/37766
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Registry
  - Scholarly Publishing
  properties:
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://api.crossref.org/members/37766
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:ror-record
  x-operator: registry
  name: ROR Registry Record — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  description: KIT's Research Organization Registry identifier, https://ror.org/04t3en479, verified live 2026-09-01 against
    https://api.ror.org/organizations/04t3en479 (200). The record carries the website https://www.kit.edu and cross-references
    to Wikipedia. This identifier is what binds KIT's DataCite membership and its repository records together. A registry
    record the institution is REGISTERED IN, not a contract it operates.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/04t3en479
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/organizations/04t3en479
  x-verified: '2026-09-01'
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Registry
  - Research Organization
  properties:
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/04t3en479
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Re-profiled 2026-09-01 under the university pipeline, with every surface probed rather than inferred from a link.
    The audit found no vendor-attributed OpenAPI in this repository and nothing had to be removed for misattribution — this
    repo was never contaminated by the Figshare /Pure pattern, because it never held a saved contract at all. What the re-profile
    changed is the opposite problem: the June 2026 entry set claimed a "dbkit API" with no baseURL, no documented endpoint
    and no evidenced public contract, and its RADAR4KIT documentation pointer was dead. Six institution-operated or institution-registered
    surfaces were found, verified and added or corrected. The headline finding is an operator finding: KIT operates a real,
    live, partly keyless machine surface — but almost none of the contracts behind it are KIT''s. The KIT Library''s Koha
    catalogue serves a 242-path Swagger 2.0 document from katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu whose info.contact is the Koha Development
    Team; the KI-Toolbox serves a 458-path OpenAPI 3.1.0 document from ki-toolbox.scc.kit.edu whose info.title is "Open WebUI"
    and which declares no servers[] at all; RADAR4KIT runs FIZ Karlsruhe''s RADAR contract on KIT infrastructure. All three
    deployments are recorded and all three contracts are deliberately unsaved. The one surface that is unambiguously KIT''s
    own engineering is the KITopen OAI-PMH 2.0 provider on dbkit, the framework the KIT Library wrote itself. Identity is
    the strongest institution-owned axis: a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 IdP registered in DFN-AAI since 2010 and a Keycloak OIDC realm,
    both on kit.edu, both previously uncatalogued in the OIDC case. KIT is additionally a DataCite direct member and a Crossref
    member. What KIT does NOT publish is measured just as carefully: api.kit.edu, developer.kit.edu, data.kit.edu and opendata.kit.edu
    do not resolve, there is no developer portal, no open data portal, no llms.txt and no sitemap.xml at the apex, no institution-authored
    OpenAPI anywhere, and no LTI, SCIM, OneRoster, Ed-Fi, Caliper or QTI surface despite running ILIAS and CAS Campus. ORCID
    is named in KITopen prose but is not declared in any contract KIT serves, so no ORCID conformance is claimed. One apis[]
    entry was removed as unevidenced and one dead documentation pointer was replaced.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0 confirmed by Identify response — repositoryName "KITopen", not by link presence
  - url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
    note: 'metadataPrefix: oai_dc, epicur, oai_datacite'
  - url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
    note: Set hierarchy served — open_access, openaire, openaire_data, dnb:dissertations, 20 doc-type sets
  - url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/api/v1/
    status: 200
    note: Live Swagger 2.0, host katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu, 242 paths; contract is Koha's, NOT saved
  - url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/api/v1/public/libraries
    status: 200
    note: Keyless public endpoint returning KIT's own branch records
  - url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/api/v1/libraries
    status: 401
    note: Staff endpoint live and correctly requiring credentials
  - url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
    status: 404
    note: Koha's OAI-PMH provider is NOT enabled on this instance — no second OAI surface claimed
  - url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
    note: SAML 2.0 IdP metadata, entityID https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth, DFN-AAI registered, unsigned self-served
      copy
  - url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
    note: OpenID Connect discovery on the Shibboleth IdP, issuer https://idp.scc.kit.edu
  - url: https://oidc.scc.kit.edu/auth/realms/kit/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
    note: Keycloak OIDC realm "kit", eleven grant types — previously uncatalogued
  - url: https://ki-toolbox.scc.kit.edu/api/config
    status: 200
    note: KI-Toolbox live, name "KI-Toolbox (Open WebUI)" 0.10.2, OIDC provider "KIT-Account"
  - url: https://ki-toolbox.scc.kit.edu/openapi.json
    status: 200
    note: 458-path OpenAPI 3.1.0, info.title "Open WebUI", no servers[] — hostless vendor contract, NOT saved
  - url: https://ki-toolbox.scc.kit.edu/api/v1/models
    status: 401
    note: Correctly gated behind the KIT Account
  - url: https://radar.kit.edu/radar-backend/
    status: 401
    note: RADAR4KIT backend live and gated; contract is FIZ Karlsruhe's RADAR, NOT saved
  - url: https://radar.kit.edu/radar/en/home
    status: 200
    note: RADAR4KIT tenancy on KIT's own host, data on SCC infrastructure
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit
    status: 200
    note: DataCite direct_member "kit", ROR https://ror.org/04t3en479, since 2020-12-15
  - url: https://datacite.org/
    status: 202
    note: DataCite's own web surface answers 202/429 to non-browser callers — the API host is used as the pointer instead
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/37766
    status: 200
    note: Crossref member "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Library", prefix 10.58895, 456 DOIs
  - url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/04t3en479
    status: 200
    note: ROR record, website https://www.kit.edu
  - url: https://gitlab.kit.edu/api/v4/projects?per_page=1
    status: 200
    note: Self-hosted GitLab REST API v4 reachable keyless; contract is GitLab's, recorded as SourceCode only
  - url: https://www.kit.edu/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
    note: RFC 9116 security.txt, PGP-signed, Contact cert@kit.edu, Expires 2026-10-01
  - url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/radar4kit.php
    status: 200
    note: Replacement for the dead RADAR documentation pointer
  - url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/radar.php
    status: 302
    note: DEAD — redirects to the library's soft-404 search page; pointer removed from apis[]
  - url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
    status: 200
    note: Names an "API interface" but documents no endpoint, base URL or format — standalone dbkit apis[] entry removed as
      unevidenced
  - url: https://primo.bibliothek.kit.edu/
    status: 200
    note: Legacy Ex Libris Primo landing page only — "Landingpage for users using an old primo link"; no discovery API
  - url: https://campus.studium.kit.edu/
    status: 200
    note: CAS Campus student system, vendor product, no public API (/api/ 404) — no course catalog surface claimed
  - url: https://ilias.studium.kit.edu/
    status: 200
    note: ILIAS LMS live; SOAP webservice not exposed (404) and no LTI/Caliper contract published
  - url: https://www.nhr.kit.edu/
    status: 200
    note: NHR@KIT / HoreKa research computing; documentation only, no allocation API contract
  - url: https://api.kit.edu/
    status: 0
    note: Does not resolve — no central API gateway
  - url: https://developer.kit.edu/
    status: 0
    note: Does not resolve — no developer portal
  - url: https://data.kit.edu/
    status: 0
    note: Does not resolve — no open data portal
  - url: https://opendata.kit.edu/
    status: 0
    note: Does not resolve — no open data portal
  - url: https://www.kit.edu/llms.txt
    status: 404
    note: No llms.txt at the apex
  - url: https://datamanager.kit.edu/
    status: 200
    note: Redirects to github.com/kit-data-manager — KIT Data Manager is open-source software, not a KIT-operated public API
      service
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kit.edu/english/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://radar.kit.edu/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://katalog.bibliothek.kit.edu/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://campus.studium.kit.edu/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.nhr.kit.edu/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.kit.edu/downloads/KI-Leitlinien-de.pdf
- type: AITooling
  url: https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/services/ki-toolbox.php
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/KIT-SCC
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/kit-data-manager
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://gitlab.kit.edu/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/services/servicedesk.php
- type: Support
  url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/contact.php
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: https://www.kit.edu/.well-known/security.txt
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.kit.edu/legals.php
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.kit.edu/privacypolicy.php
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/press_releases.php
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.kit.edu/english/news.rss
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kit/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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