# Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/  
**Website:** https://www.kit.edu/english/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 19.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **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...

## Security (2)

- **Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Data, Research Data, Library, Germany

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