# RWTH Aachen University **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rwth-aachen-university/ **Website:** https://www.rwth-aachen.de/ **APIs profiled:** 49 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. ## Kin Score — 38.2 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.2). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 59.3 | | Contract Quality | 64.3 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 21.1 | | Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 | | Commercial Clarity | 28.9 | | Access Clarity | 28.9 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 42.6 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (49) - **RWTH Publications OAI-PMH** — RWTH Publications is the institutional repository providing access to the publication output of RWTH Aachen University. It exposes metadata via the Open Archives Initiative Prot... - **RWTH Single Sign-On (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect / Shibboleth)** — 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, ... - **RWTH Aachen University Admin API** — Endpoints for admin functionality. - **RWTH Aachen University ApplicationProfile API** — Endpoints for the applications profiles. - **RWTH Aachen University Blob API** — Endpoints for the Binary Large Objects (BLOBs). - **RWTH Aachen University DataHamsterReport API** — Controller for generating and downloading project-related reports. - **RWTH Aachen University Discipline API** — Endpoints for the disciplines. - **RWTH Aachen University Graph API** — Controller for managing storage operations for project resources. - **RWTH Aachen University GraphMetadata API** — Controller for managing metadata version history and retrieval for project resources and graph nodes. - **RWTH Aachen University GraphMetadataContent API** — Controller responsible for accessing and managing RDF metadata content associated with specific graph nodes of a project resource. - **RWTH Aachen University Handle API** — Endpoints for the handles. - **RWTH Aachen University Language API** — Endpoints for the languages. - **RWTH Aachen University License API** — Endpoints for the licenses. - **RWTH Aachen University Maintenance API** — Endpoints for the maintenances. - **RWTH Aachen University Notification API** — Endpoints for the notifications. - **RWTH Aachen University Organization API** — Endpoints for the organizations. - **RWTH Aachen University Pid API** — Endpoints for the pids. - **RWTH Aachen University Project API** — Endpoints for the projects. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectGraphContent API** — Endpoints for the graphs of projects. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectInvitation API** — Endpoints for the project invitations. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectMember API** — Endpoints for the project members. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectPublicationRequest API** — Endpoints for the projects. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectQuota API** — Endpoints for the project quotas. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectResource API** — Endpoints for the project resources. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectResourceQuota API** — Endpoints for the resource quotas. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectResourceType API** — Endpoints for the resource types. - **RWTH Aachen University ProjectSubProjects API** — Endpoints for the sub-projects. - **RWTH Aachen University Provenance API** — Endpoints for the provenance information. - **RWTH Aachen University PublicationAdvisoryService API** — Endpoints for the publication services. - **RWTH Aachen University Report API** — Controller for generating and downloading project-related reports. - **RWTH Aachen University Resource API** — Endpoints for the resources. - **RWTH Aachen University ResourceGraphContent API** — Endpoints for the graphs of resources. - **RWTH Aachen University ResourceType API** — Endpoints for the resource types. - **RWTH Aachen University ResourceTypeGitLab API** — Endpoints for the gitlab resource types. - **RWTH Aachen University Role API** — Endpoints for the roles. - **RWTH Aachen University Search API** — Endpoints for search. - **RWTH Aachen University Self API** — Endpoints for the current authenticated user. - **RWTH Aachen University SelfApiToken API** — Endpoints for the api tokens of a user. - **RWTH Aachen University SelfSession API** — Endpoints for the current current session. - **RWTH Aachen University Storage API** — Provides endpoints for managing blob storage operations for project resources, such as checking existence and deleting files or folders. - …and 9 more, listed in full on the page. ## Agentic access (1) - **Rwth Aachen University Agentic Access** — 194 operations · 47 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop ## Security (3) - **Rwth Aachen University Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme - **Rwth Aachen University Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC - **Rwth Aachen University Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published ## Plans (1) - **Rwth Aachen University Plans Pricing** ## Tags Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, Open Access, Germany --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/rwth-aachen-university/). 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