PANGAEA

PANGAEA is a data publisher and library for earth and environmental science, providing open access to geoscientific datasets including ocean data, climate records, sediment cores, and environmental measurements from scientific expeditions worldwide.

PANGAEA publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including DOI Filter API, Geo Filter API, OAI-PMH API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Earth Science, Ocean Data, Climate Records, Environmental Science, and Geoscience.

The PANGAEA catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

PANGAEA’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 7 more developer resources.

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25.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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3 published contracts

Earth Science Ocean DataClimate RecordsEnvironmental ScienceGeoscience Open Data Scientific Data Research Data OAI-PMH Research Repository

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 25.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 9.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
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Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
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Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points Ask about this →
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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OAI-PMH

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 9

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

PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by DOI

REST service for retrieving tabular dataset data filtered by dataset DOI and parameter values. Supports column selection, value filtering with range queries, and multiple filter...

PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by Geo Parameters

REST service for retrieving geoscientific measurements filtered by geographic bounding box, temporal range, depth constraints, and PANGAEA parameter IDs. Ideal for extracting cr...

PANGAEA Bathymetry WMS

OGC-compliant Web Map Service providing bathymetric (ocean depth) map layers for integration into GIS software. Hosted by AWI and based on PANGAEA bathymetry data collected from...

PANGAEA Term Dictionary API

Elasticsearch-backed REST API for querying PANGAEA's controlled vocabulary and term dictionary used for classifying datasets by topic, parameter, and method.

PANGAEA DOI Filter API

Filter dataset data by DOI and parameter values

PANGAEA Geo Filter API

Filter cross-dataset data by geographic and temporal constraints

PANGAEA OAI-PMH API

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0

PANGAEA Search API

Full-text and faceted dataset search

PANGAEA Terms API

Controlled vocabulary and term dictionary

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Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

PANGAEA Data Download Services DOI Filter API

OPEN COLLECTION

PANGAEA Data Download Services DOI Filter Geo Filter API

OPEN COLLECTION

PANGAEA Data Download Services DOI Filter OAI-PMH API

OPEN COLLECTION

PANGAEA Data Download Services DOI Filter Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

PANGAEA Data Download Services DOI Filter Terms API

OPEN COLLECTION

PANGAEA API pricing

Not yet checked against PANGAEA's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Open Access	—
Restricted Dataset Access	—
Data Submission	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

PANGAEA API Rules

60 rules · 56 error-severity 1 warn-severity 3 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Download Data By Doi

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Oai Pmh Harvest

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Search By Bounding Box

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

PANGAEA Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

PANGAEA Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

PANGAEA Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

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

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

name: PANGAEA
description: PANGAEA is a data publisher and library for earth and environmental science, providing open access to geoscientific
  datasets including ocean data, climate records, sediment cores, and environmental measurements from scientific expeditions
  worldwide.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.pangaea.de/assets/img/pangaea-logo.png
tags:
- Earth Science
- Ocean Data
- Climate Records
- Environmental Science
- Geoscience
- Open Data
- Scientific Data
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- Research Repository
url: https://www.pangaea.de/
baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/
humanURL: https://www.pangaea.de/
contact:
- FN: PANGAEA Technical Support
  email: tech@pangaea.de
apis:
- name: PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by DOI
  description: REST service for retrieving tabular dataset data filtered by dataset DOI and parameter values. Supports column
    selection, value filtering with range queries, and multiple filter criteria with AND/OR logic. Returns tab-delimited data
    files.
  humanURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/dds-fdp/
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/dds-fdp/rest/panquery
  tags:
  - Data Download
  - Tabular Data
  - DOI
  - Filtering
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ws.pangaea.de/dds-fdp/
  contact:
  - FN: PANGAEA Technical Support
    email: tech@pangaea.de
- name: PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by Geo Parameters
  description: REST service for retrieving geoscientific measurements filtered by geographic bounding box, temporal range,
    depth constraints, and PANGAEA parameter IDs. Ideal for extracting cross-dataset measurements from specific ocean regions,
    time periods, or depth intervals.
  humanURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/dds-fgp/
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/dds-fgp/rest/dwhquery
  tags:
  - Data Download
  - Geospatial
  - Bounding Box
  - Ocean Data
  - Depth Filtering
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ws.pangaea.de/dds-fgp/
  contact:
  - FN: PANGAEA Technical Support
    email: tech@pangaea.de
- name: PANGAEA Bathymetry WMS
  description: OGC-compliant Web Map Service providing bathymetric (ocean depth) map layers for integration into GIS software.
    Hosted by AWI and based on PANGAEA bathymetry data collected from scientific expeditions.
  humanURL: https://www.pangaea.de/tools/
  baseURL: https://maps.awi.de/services/common/pangaea_bathymetry/wms
  tags:
  - WMS
  - Bathymetry
  - OGC
  - GIS
  - Ocean Depth
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pangaea.de/tools/
  contact:
  - FN: PANGAEA Technical Support
    email: tech@pangaea.de
- name: PANGAEA Term Dictionary API
  description: Elasticsearch-backed REST API for querying PANGAEA's controlled vocabulary and term dictionary used for classifying
    datasets by topic, parameter, and method.
  humanURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/es/pangaea-terms/term/_search
  tags:
  - Controlled Vocabulary
  - Terms
  - Dictionaries
  - Classification
  tags_raw:
  - Controlled Vocabulary
  - Terms
  - Dictionary
  - Classification
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ws.pangaea.de/
  contact:
  - FN: PANGAEA Technical Support
    email: tech@pangaea.de
- aid: pangaea:pangaea-doi-filter-api
  name: PANGAEA DOI Filter API
  description: Filter dataset data by DOI and parameter values
  humanURL: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/es/pangaea/panmd/_search
  tags:
  - DOI Filter
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pangaea-doi-filter-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pangaea.de/about/services.php
- aid: pangaea:pangaea-geo-filter-api
  name: PANGAEA Geo Filter API
  description: Filter cross-dataset data by geographic and temporal constraints
  humanURL: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/es/pangaea/panmd/_search
  tags:
  - Geo Filter
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pangaea-geo-filter-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pangaea.de/about/services.php
- aid: pangaea:pangaea-oai-pmh-api
  name: PANGAEA OAI-PMH API
  description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
  humanURL: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/OAI-PMH
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pangaea-oai-pmh-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pangaea.de/about/services.php
- aid: pangaea:pangaea-search-api
  name: PANGAEA Search API
  description: Full-text and faceted dataset search
  humanURL: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/es/pangaea/panmd/_search
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pangaea-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pangaea.de/about/services.php
- aid: pangaea:pangaea-terms-api
  name: PANGAEA Terms API
  description: Controlled vocabulary and term dictionary
  humanURL: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  baseURL: https://ws.pangaea.de/es/pangaea/panmd/_search
  tags:
  - Terms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pangaea-terms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/PANGAEA_search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pangaea.de/about/services.php
modified: '2026-10-06'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/finops.yml
- url: https://pangaea.de/news/
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://pangaea.de
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pangaea-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/pangaea-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pangaea-domain-security.yml

PANGAEA API — frequently asked questions

Does PANGAEA have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from PANGAEA, including PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by DOI, PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by Geo Parameters and PANGAEA Bathymetry WMS, and 6 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the PANGAEA API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for PANGAEA, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the PANGAEA API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for PANGAEA, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the PANGAEA API ready for AI agents?

PANGAEA has a Kin Score of 25.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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