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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public research university and national research center in Karlsruhe, Germany, ranked #102 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. KIT's public developer/API footprint is centered on research infrastructure operated by the KIT Library and partner FIZ Karlsruhe: the KITopen institutional repository (built on the dbkit framework, exposing an OAI-PMH harvesting interface), and the RADAR / RADAR4KIT research-data repository which offers a RESTful, OAuth-secured archive API. Identity is handled via a Shibboleth/SAML IdP operated by the Scientific Computing Center (SCC). KIT does not publish a single consolidated developer portal; its open-source code is spread across many institute-level GitHub organizations.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Data.

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

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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20.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 20.8/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 4

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 bibliographic data, full texts, images, research data, and AV media of KIT scientists. It is built on the KIT L...

dbkit API

dbkit is a web application framework developed by the KIT Library that provides both an API interface and an OAI interface, enabling import and export of bibliographic data (Bib...

RADAR / RADAR4KIT Archive API

RADAR4KIT is KIT's interdisciplinary research-data repository for archiving and publishing research data, based on the RADAR service operated by FIZ Karlsruhe. RADAR provides a ...

KIT Shibboleth Identity Provider (SCC)

KIT operates a Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 Identity Provider via the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) for single sign-on and federated authentication across KIT services and the DFN-AA...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Finops

FINOPS

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology
name: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
description: 'Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public research university and national research center in Karlsruhe,
  Germany, ranked #102 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. KIT''s public developer/API footprint is centered on research
  infrastructure operated by the KIT Library and partner FIZ Karlsruhe: the KITopen institutional repository (built on the
  dbkit framework, exposing an OAI-PMH harvesting interface), and the RADAR / RADAR4KIT research-data repository which offers
  a RESTful, OAuth-secured archive API. Identity is handled via a Shibboleth/SAML IdP operated by the Scientific Computing
  Center (SCC). KIT does not publish a single consolidated developer portal; its open-source code is spread across many institute-level
  GitHub organizations.'
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  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Research Data
- Library
- Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:kitopen-oai
  name: KITopen OAI-PMH Interface
  description: KITopen is KIT's central open-access institutional repository for bibliographic data, full texts, images, research
    data, and AV media of KIT scientists. It is built on the KIT Library dbkit framework and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting
    interface (repository name "KITopen").
  humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php
  baseURL: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:dbkit
  name: dbkit API
  description: dbkit is a web application framework developed by the KIT Library that provides both an API interface and an
    OAI interface, enabling import and export of bibliographic data (BibTeX, EndNote, RIS, CSL-JSON, ISI). KITopen and related
    KIT Library applications are built on dbkit.
  humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
  tags:
  - Library
  - Metadata
  - Bibliographic
  - Export
  - Framework
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:radar4kit
  name: RADAR / RADAR4KIT Archive API
  description: RADAR4KIT is KIT's interdisciplinary research-data repository for archiving and publishing research data, based
    on the RADAR service operated by FIZ Karlsruhe. RADAR provides a RESTful "Archive API" covering contracts, workspaces,
    datasets, folders, and files (including DOI assignment and WebDAV upload). Access requires an OAuth 2.0 client ID and
    a dedicated API user activated by RADAR; Shibboleth accounts are not supported for API access.
  humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/radar.php
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - REST
  - OAuth
  - DOI
  - FIZ Karlsruhe
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/radar-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/radar-api
- aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:shibboleth-idp
  name: KIT Shibboleth Identity Provider (SCC)
  description: KIT operates a Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 Identity Provider via the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) for single sign-on
    and federated authentication across KIT services and the DFN-AAI federation.
  humanURL: https://www.scc.kit.edu/
  baseURL: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kit.edu/english/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/KIT-SCC
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kit/
- 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