RWTH Aachen University

aid: rwth-aachen-university
name: RWTH Aachen University
description: 'RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen) is a leading German technical
  university, ranked #83 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is concentrated
  in research-data and scholarly-infrastructure services operated by the IT Center and University Library. The most prominent
  documented public API is Coscine, a FAIR research data management platform exposing a Swagger/OpenAPI-described REST API.
  The institutional repository RWTH Publications offers an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint, and the IT Center operates
  a central Single Sign-On supporting OAuth2/OpenID Connect and Shibboleth/SAML2 for application authorization. The university
  also runs a self-hosted GitLab at git.rwth-aachen.de used widely across its institutes.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: rwth-aachen-university:coscine
  name: Coscine Research Data API
  description: Coscine (Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment) is RWTH Aachen University's research data management
    platform. It provides a public, Swagger/OpenAPI-documented REST API for managing projects, resources, metadata, and research
    data stored via S3-based object storage, following FAIR principles. Access requires an API access token. Official C#,
    TypeScript, and a community Python SDK are available.
  humanURL: https://docs.coscine.de/en/api/api/
  baseURL: https://coscine.rwth-aachen.de/coscine/api/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - FAIR
  - REST
  - OpenAPI
  - Data Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coscine.de/en/api/api/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://coscine.rwth-aachen.de/coscine/api/swagger/v2/swagger.json
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://coscine.rwth-aachen.de/coscine/api/swagger/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.coscine.de/en/api/api/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rwth-aachen-university-coscine.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rwth-aachen-university-project-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rwth-aachen-university-resource-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rwth-aachen-university-apitoken-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/rwth-aachen-university-project-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/rwth-aachen-university-resource-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/rwth-aachen-university-get-project-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/rwth-aachen-university-get-resource-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/rwth-aachen-university-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/rwth-aachen-university-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/rwth-aachen-university-context.jsonld
- aid: rwth-aachen-university:publications-oai
  name: RWTH Publications OAI-PMH
  description: RWTH Publications is the institutional repository providing access to the publication output of RWTH Aachen
    University. It exposes metadata via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) at publications.rwth-aachen.de/oai2d,
    enabling third-party harvesting of bibliographic records. The repository is indexed by OpenAIRE and re3data.
  humanURL: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/
  baseURL: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/oai2d
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Scholarly
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012911
- aid: rwth-aachen-university:sso
  name: RWTH Single Sign-On (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect / Shibboleth)
  description: The RWTH IT Center operates the central Single Sign-On at sso.rwth-aachen.de, offering OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
    for web and mobile application authorization (Device, Implicit, and Refresh grants) as well as Shibboleth/SAML2 federated
    authentication via the DFN-AAI federation. Application registration is handled through the OAuth2 Management Interface.
  humanURL: https://help.itc.rwth-aachen.de/en/service/rhb2fhkpjhb7/
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - OAuth2
  - OpenID Connect
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.itc.rwth-aachen.de/en/service/rhb2fhkpjhb7/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://oauth.campus.rwth-aachen.de/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://git.rwth-aachen.de/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rwth-aachen-university/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.itc.rwth-aachen.de/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/rwth-aachen-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rwth-aachen-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/rwth-aachen-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com