# Nanyang Technological University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ntu/  
**Website:** https://www.ntu.edu.sg/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is an autonomous public research university in Singapore, ranked in the top 15 of the QS World University Rankings. Its programmable footprint is small, indirect, and almost entirely research-infrastructure: NTU operates no public developer portal, publishes no API key self-service, and exposes no OAuth or OIDC authorization server on any host it owns. Exactly one machine-readable API is genuinely NTU-operated — DR-NTU (Data), a Dataverse 6.1 open research data repository that NTU self-hosts on its own network (researchdata.ntu.edu.sg CNAMEs to dataverse.ntu.edu.sg at 155.69.19.238, registered to Nanyang Technological University), backed by NTU's own DataCite client GDCC.NTU with 3,625 DOIs under prefix 10.21979. Everything else that carries NTU's name is a tenancy on someone else's platform. DR-NTU (Digital Repository), the far larger surface with 158,100 research profiles, a DSpace 7 REST API and a fully conformant OAI-PMH endpoint, answers on dr.ntu.edu.sg but CNAMEs to ntu-cris.4science.cloud — NTU's data and NTU's library administration running on 4Science's DSpace-CRIS platform. NTU's federated single sign-on is a live SAML 2.0 identity provider in eduGAIN, but the entityID and endpoints sit on SingAREN's SGAF proxy, not on ntu.edu.sg. NTU owns a live API gateway at api.ntu.edu.sg which returns a structured JSON 404 on every path and documents no route at all. This profile records the tenancies as the real institutional facts they are, and credits NTU only for what NTU actually operates.

## Kin Score — 44.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+12.8 from 31.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 60.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 53.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 31.6 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

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

## APIs (4)

- **DR-NTU (Data) — Dataverse API** — NTU's institutional open research data repository, running Dataverse 6.1 self-hosted on NTU's own network. The publicly documented, unauthenticated read subset covers dataset se...
- **DR-NTU (Digital Repository) — DSpace-CRIS REST API** — NTU's institutional publications and research-profile repository — 158,100 research profiles, records back to 2008 — served from NTU's own hostname but operated on 4Science's DS...
- **DR-NTU (Digital Repository) — OAI-PMH** — A fully conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint over DR-NTU, serving 11 metadata formats and declaring OpenAIRE CERIF-CRIS 1.1 compatibility on a second base URL. Ad...
- **NTU Identity Provider — SGAF / eduGAIN** — NTU's SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the Singapore Access Federation (SGAF) by SingAREN and interfederated into eduGAIN, asserting the scope ntu.edu.sg. Live machine-...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ntu Agentic Access** — 6 operations

## Security (2)

- **Ntu Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Ntu Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ntu Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Singapore, Public Research University, Research Data, Research Repository, Identity Federation, Open Access, Course Catalog, Library, OAI-PMH

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ntu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.