Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is a public research university in Singapore and is ranked #15 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. NTU's public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in its library and research infrastructure: DR-NTU (Data), a Dataverse-based open research data repository, exposes a documented HTTP API, and DR-NTU (Digital Repository of NTU), a DSpace 7 / DSpace-CRIS institutional repository, exposes a REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint. Other institutional systems (student information, timetabling, mobile app backends, SSO) are present but not publicly documented as open APIs.

Nanyang Technological University publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Discover API, Info API, Items API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Singapore, and Research Data.

The Nanyang Technological University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Nanyang Technological University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 11 more developer resources.

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36.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

6 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversitySingaporeResearch DataOpen DataRepositoryLibrary

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Composite quality — 36.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 6

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ntu Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

x-vocabulary

x-vocabulary

x-spectral-rules

x-spectral-rules

x-json-ld-context

x-json-ld-context

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ntu
name: Nanyang Technological University
description: 'Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is a public research university in Singapore and is ranked
  #15 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. NTU''s public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in its library and
  research infrastructure: DR-NTU (Data), a Dataverse-based open research data repository, exposes a documented HTTP API,
  and DR-NTU (Digital Repository of NTU), a DSpace 7 / DSpace-CRIS institutional repository, exposes a REST API and an OAI-PMH
  endpoint. Other institutional systems (student information, timetabling, mobile app backends, SSO) are present but not publicly
  documented as open APIs.'
type: Index
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: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ntu.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ntu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Singapore
- Research Data
- Open Data
- Repository
- Library
tags_country: Singapore
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ntu:ntu-discover-api
  name: Nanyang Technological University Discover API
  description: The Discover API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for discover.
  humanURL: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  baseURL: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/api
  tags:
  - Discover
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ntu-discover-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-search-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/home
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-discover-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: ntu:ntu-info-api
  name: Nanyang Technological University Info API
  description: The Info API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for info.
  humanURL: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  baseURL: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/api
  tags:
  - Info
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ntu-info-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-search-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/home
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-discover-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: ntu:ntu-items-api
  name: Nanyang Technological University Items API
  description: The Items API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for items.
  humanURL: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  baseURL: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/api
  tags:
  - Items
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ntu-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-search-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/home
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-discover-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: ntu:ntu-oai-pmh-api
  name: Nanyang Technological University OAI-PMH API
  description: The OAI-PMH API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for oai-pmh.
  humanURL: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  baseURL: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/api
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ntu-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-search-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/home
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-discover-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: ntu:ntu-root-api
  name: Nanyang Technological University Root API
  description: The Root API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for root.
  humanURL: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  baseURL: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/api
  tags:
  - Root
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ntu-root-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-search-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/home
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-discover-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: ntu:ntu-search-api
  name: Nanyang Technological University Search API
  description: The Search API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  baseURL: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/api
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ntu-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.ntu.edu.sg/drntudataguidespolicies/APITermsOfUse
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-search-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/home
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/ntu-item-schema.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/ntu-discover-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/ntu-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ntu-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/NTUsg
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/nanyang-technological-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ntu-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ntu-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ntu-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ntu-vocabulary.yml
- type: x-spectral-rules
  url: rules/ntu-rules.yml
- type: x-json-ld-context
  url: json-ld/ntu-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com