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Technical University of Darmstadt

The Technical University of Darmstadt (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt) is a public research university in Darmstadt, Germany, ranked #241 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on the university and state library (ULB) scholarly infrastructure rather than a central developer portal. TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository, runs DSpace 8.1 and exposes a live REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata interface; the TUbiblio publication bibliography and the tuprints open-access repository run on EPrints with OAI-PMH harvesting. Authentication across university services is handled through a central SSO system operated by the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ).

Technical University of Darmstadt publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, and Open Access.

The Technical University of Darmstadt catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Technical University of Darmstadt’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, authentication, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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22.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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4 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch DataOpen AccessLibraryOAI-PMHDSpaceGermany

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 22.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 4

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

TUdatalib DSpace REST API

REST API of TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository of TU Darmstadt, running on DSpace 8.1. The API root reports dspaceName "TUdatalib System" and exposes HAL-styl...

TUdatalib OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for TUdatalib (DSpace 8.1). Verified live: Identify returns repositoryName "TUdatalib System", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail tudatali...

TUbiblio OAI-PMH (EPrints)

TUbiblio is the publication bibliography of TU Darmstadt, built on EPrints and registered with an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for metadata harvesting. The OAI base path is /cgi/oai2. ...

tuprints OAI-PMH (EPrints)

tuprints is the open-access publication repository of TU Darmstadt, built on EPrints with an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface (base path /cgi/oai2). The repository site returns HTTP 200; t...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Technical University Of Darmstadt Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Technical University Of Darmstadt Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Technical University Of Darmstadt Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Technical University Of Darmstadt Context

19 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Technical University Of Darmstadt Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

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 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt
name: Technical University of Darmstadt
description: 'The Technical University of Darmstadt (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt) is a public research
  university in Darmstadt, Germany, ranked #241 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer
  footprint is centered on the university and state library (ULB) scholarly infrastructure rather than a central developer
  portal. TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository, runs DSpace 8.1 and exposes a live REST API and an OAI-PMH
  2.0 metadata interface; the TUbiblio publication bibliography and the tuprints open-access repository run on EPrints with
  OAI-PMH harvesting. Authentication across university services is handled through a central SSO system operated by the Hochschulrechenzentrum
  (HRZ).'
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/technical-university-of-darmstadt.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/technical-university-of-darmstadt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tudatalib-rest
  name: TUdatalib DSpace REST API
  description: REST API of TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository of TU Darmstadt, running on DSpace 8.1. The
    API root reports dspaceName "TUdatalib System" and exposes HAL-style endpoints for communities, collections, and items
    (e.g. /server/api/core/communities). Verified live returning HTTP 200 with JSON.
  humanURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
  baseURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - DSpace
  - REST
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tudatalib-oai
  name: TUdatalib OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for TUdatalib (DSpace 8.1). Verified live: Identify returns repositoryName
    "TUdatalib System", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail tudatalib@ulb.tu-darmstadt.de.'
  humanURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
  baseURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tubiblio-oai
  name: TUbiblio OAI-PMH (EPrints)
  description: TUbiblio is the publication bibliography of TU Darmstadt, built on EPrints and registered with an OAI-PMH 2.0
    interface for metadata harvesting. The OAI base path is /cgi/oai2. The public site loads in browsers but applies bot/TLS
    filtering, so the OAI endpoint was not directly curl-verifiable during review.
  humanURL: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
  baseURL: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Publications
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tuprints-oai
  name: tuprints OAI-PMH (EPrints)
  description: tuprints is the open-access publication repository of TU Darmstadt, built on EPrints with an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface
    (base path /cgi/oai2). The repository site returns HTTP 200; the OAI endpoint returned HTTP 403 to a plain client during
    review and likely requires a standard harvester client.
  humanURL: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
  baseURL: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/technical-university-of-darmstadt-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/index.en.jsp
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/TU-Darmstadt
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/tu-darmstadt/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/sso
- type: Plans
  url: plans/technical-university-of-darmstadt-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/technical-university-of-darmstadt-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/technical-university-of-darmstadt-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/technical-university-of-darmstadt-context.jsonld
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com