Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: 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