Technical University of Darmstadt
The Technical University of Darmstadt (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt) is a public technical research university in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, founded in 1877 and registered as ROR 05n911h24. It operates no central developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI description of its own, and its GitHub organization (TU-Darmstadt) is live but holds zero public repositories. What it does operate, and what makes this profile non-empty, is scholarly and identity infrastructure on its own domain: TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository, runs DSpace 9.3 and exposes both a live HAL/JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface; a DBRepo deployment at dbrepo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de serves a live JSON API for research databases; and the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ) runs the university's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, whose metadata is publicly retrievable and published into the German DFN-AAI federation and eduGAIN. TUbiblio and tuprints run on EPrints with OAI-PMH endpoints that are WAF-protected. The ULB is a DataCite consortium member (provider HLQC) registering DOIs for six repositories. TUjournals is real, machine-readable and busy, but it is a tenancy on Janeway shared hosting, not TU Darmstadt engineering. Every surface below is labelled with who actually operates it.
Technical University of Darmstadt publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Technical University, and Germany.
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, support, engineering blog, and 16 more developer resources.
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aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt
name: Technical University of Darmstadt
x-type: university
x-category: Technical University
description: 'The Technical University of Darmstadt (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt) is a public technical
research university in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, founded in 1877 and registered as ROR 05n911h24. It operates no central
developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI description of its own, and its GitHub organization (TU-Darmstadt) is live but holds
zero public repositories. What it does operate, and what makes this profile non-empty, is scholarly and identity infrastructure
on its own domain: TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository, runs DSpace 9.3 and exposes both a live HAL/JSON
REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface; a DBRepo deployment at dbrepo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de serves a live JSON API for research
databases; and the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ) runs the university''s own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, whose
metadata is publicly retrievable and published into the German DFN-AAI federation and eduGAIN. TUbiblio and tuprints run
on EPrints with OAI-PMH endpoints that are WAF-protected. The ULB is a DataCite consortium member (provider HLQC) registering
DOIs for six repositories. TUjournals is real, machine-readable and busy, but it is a tenancy on Janeway shared hosting,
not TU Darmstadt engineering. Every surface below is labelled with who actually operates it.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
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: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Technical University
- Germany
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Scholarly Publishing
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'TU Darmstadt operates no public developer portal and publishes no OpenAPI, llms.txt, .well-known/apis.json or security.txt
— all four were probed and all four 404. It is nonetheless not a thin profile: three institution-operated, machine-readable
surfaces were verified live on tu-darmstadt.de hosts — the TUdatalib DSpace 9.3 REST API, its OAI-PMH 2.0 interface, and
a DBRepo JSON API — plus the HRZ''s own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata, which is the strongest institution-operated
surface here and the one the June 2026 profile missed entirely. One caveat about US, not about them: the entire ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
repository host family returns HTTP 403 to this network''s egress IP regardless of User-Agent. A second, independent fetch
path retrieved the TUdatalib REST root and OAI-PMH Identify successfully, and the tuprints site root, which is how those
are graded live. The tuprints and TUbiblio /cgi/oai2 EPrints endpoints returned 403 to both fetch paths and are recorded
honestly as unverified rather than dropped or credited.'
evidence:
- url: https://idp.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://mdq.aai.dfn.de/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://dbrepo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/api/v1/database
status: 200
- url: https://tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/api/journals/
status: 200
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/hlqc
status: 200
- url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/05n911h24
status: 200
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/TU-Darmstadt/repos
status: 200
- url: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
status: 403
- url: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
status: 403
- url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/.well-known/apis.json
status: 404
apis:
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tudatalib-rest
name: TUdatalib DSpace REST API
x-operator: institution
description: 'REST API of TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository of TU Darmstadt. Verified live 2026-09-01:
the API root returns HAL/JSON with dspaceName "TUdatalib System", dspaceVersion "DSpace 9.3" (the June 2026 profile recorded
8.1 — the deployment has been upgraded), dspaceServer https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server, and roughly 106 hypermedia
_links covering communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery, authn and versioning. Hosted on the institution''s
own registrable domain. The contract is DSpace''s, not TU Darmstadt''s, so no OpenAPI is saved here; the deployment is
the institutional fact.'
humanURL: https://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/index.en.jsp
baseURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/api
tags:
- Research Data
- DSpace
- REST
- Repository
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tudatalib-oai
name: TUdatalib OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for TUdatalib. Verified live 2026-09-01: Identify returns repositoryName
"TUdatalib System", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail tudatalib@ulb.tu-darmstadt.de. The re3data registry (r3d100013029,
doi:10.17616/R31NJMJP) independently declares this endpoint plus a second OpenAIRE-profile set at /server/oai/openairedata,
and a REST discovery endpoint at /server/api/discover/search. This is one of the education regime''s named domain standards
and it is genuinely the institution''s, not a vendor''s.'
humanURL: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013029
baseURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/oai/request
tags:
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Harvesting
- Repository
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:shibboleth-idp
name: TU Darmstadt Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
x-operator: institution
description: 'The university''s own SAML 2.0 identity provider, operated by the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ). Verified live
2026-09-01 (HTTP 200, 15,371 bytes of XML): entityID https://idp.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope tu-darmstadt.de,
an IDPSSODescriptor advertising SAML2 HTTP-POST, POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP bindings at login.tu-darmstadt.de,
signing certificates, mdui:DisplayName in German and English, and technical/support contacts at hrz.tu-darmstadt.de. The
same document is served from https://login.tu-darmstadt.de/idp/shibboleth. This is browser-mediated web SSO, not an API
authorization server — there is no OAuth or OIDC token endpoint — but it is machine-readable metadata the institution
itself authors and publishes, and it is the single strongest institution-operated surface in this profile.'
humanURL: https://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/sso
baseURL: https://idp.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- SSO
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/sso
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:dfn-aai
name: DFN-AAI federation membership (eduGAIN)
x-operator: federation
description: 'TU Darmstadt''s identity provider is published in DFN-AAI, the German research-and-education identity federation
run by DFN, and is reachable through eduGAIN by extension. Verified live 2026-09-01: the DFN-AAI MDQ service returns the
signed EntityDescriptor for https://idp.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/idp/shibboleth (HTTP 200, 22,505 bytes). A federation is shared
by definition; the IdP behind this entry is TU Darmstadt''s own, which is why this is recorded as a membership rather
than discarded as a shared host.'
humanURL: https://doku.tid.dfn.de/de:aai:start
baseURL: https://mdq.aai.dfn.de/entities/
tags:
- Identity Federation
- eduGAIN
- DFN
- SAML
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://doku.tid.dfn.de/de:aai:start
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:dbrepo
name: DBRepo API (research database repository)
x-operator: institution
description: 'A DBRepo deployment run by the Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek for publishing and querying research databases.
Hosted on the institution''s own infrastructure — dbrepo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de is a CNAME to fidbau.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
at 130.83.245.233, inside TU Darmstadt''s own address space, not a vendor''s. Verified live 2026-09-01: GET /api/v1/database
returns 200 with a JSON array of database records, and GET /api/v1/license returns 200 with a licence vocabulary; the
backend answers with application/problem+json on unknown paths. The web tier is a Nuxt SPA. DBRepo the software is a third-party
product, so its generic OpenAPI is deliberately not saved under this institution — the deployment is what belongs here.
Registered with DataCite as client hlqc.covcod.'
humanURL: https://dbrepo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
baseURL: https://dbrepo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/api/v1
tags:
- Research Data
- Databases
- REST
- Repository
- DBRepo
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://dbrepo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tujournals-janeway
name: TUjournals REST API (Janeway tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'TUjournals is TU Darmstadt''s open-access journal platform, publisher of record "Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek
Darmstadt". It runs a live, fully anonymous JSON REST API — verified 2026-09-01, /api/ returns a discoverable endpoint
index, /api/journals/ returns 6 journals (jcls, npl, kordaf, inggrid, zif, fortext) with ISSNs, /api/articles/ returns
2,181 articles and /api/issues/ 136 issues. Operator is a TENANT relationship, not institution engineering: tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
is a CNAME to darmstadt.janewaysharedhosting.com (46.101.241.129), a hosted Janeway instance outside the university''s
network. The hostname is the institution''s and the content is the institution''s; the platform and the contract are Janeway''s,
so no spec is saved here. Registered with DataCite as client hlqc.eesqtr.'
humanURL: https://tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
baseURL: https://tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/api
tags:
- Scholarly Publishing
- Open Access
- Journals
- REST
- Janeway
properties:
- type: Website
url: https://tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:datacite-membership
name: DataCite membership (provider HLQC)
x-operator: registry
description: 'TU Darmstadt registers DOIs through DataCite. Verified live 2026-09-01 via api.datacite.org/providers/hlqc:
provider HLQC, "Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt", organizationType academicInstitution, memberType consortium_organization,
country DE, website https://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de, and rorId https://ror.org/05n911h24 — TU Darmstadt''s own ROR record,
which is what ties this membership to the institution rather than to a lookalike. Six repository clients sit under it:
TUdatalib (hlqc.znxeli), TUprints (hlqc.jslnah), TUjournals (hlqc.eesqtr), DBRepo (hlqc.covcod), NFDI4Ing-Ingest (hlqc.jckkgr)
and TUdigit (tib.ulbd). DataCite''s own contract is not saved here; the membership is the fact about TU Darmstadt.'
humanURL: https://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/index.en.jsp
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/hlqc
tags:
- DOI
- DataCite
- Persistent Identifiers
- Registry
- Research Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://support.datacite.org/docs/api
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:ror
name: ROR registration
x-operator: registry
description: TU Darmstadt is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/05n911h24, established
1877, domain tu-darmstadt.de, with GRID grid.6546.1 and Crossref Funder IDs 501100005714 / 501100003072. Verified live
2026-09-01 against api.ror.org. Recorded as a registry membership; the ROR API's own contract belongs to ROR, not to the
institution.
humanURL: https://ror.org/05n911h24
baseURL: https://api.ror.org/organizations/05n911h24
tags:
- Registry
- Persistent Identifiers
- ROR
- Research Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://ror.readme.io/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tuprints-oai
name: tuprints OAI-PMH (EPrints)
x-operator: institution
description: 'tuprints is the open-access publication repository of TU Darmstadt, on the institution''s own host and registered
with DataCite as client hlqc.jslnah. It runs EPrints, whose OAI-PMH 2.0 base path is /cgi/oai2. Status as of 2026-09-01:
the repository site root is live and serves "TUprints :: Startseite", but the /cgi/oai2 endpoint returned HTTP 403 to
two independent fetch paths, so the OAI interface itself is recorded as UNVERIFIED rather than claimed live. The 403 is
a WAF/bot filter in front of the endpoint, not an absence — it is stated here rather than papered over.'
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: Website
url: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
- aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tubiblio-oai
name: TUbiblio OAI-PMH (EPrints)
x-operator: institution
description: 'TUbiblio is the publication bibliography of TU Darmstadt, on the institution''s own host (tubiblio18.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de,
130.83.152.163), running EPrints with an OAI-PMH 2.0 base path of /cgi/oai2. Status as of 2026-09-01: both fetch paths
were answered with HTTP 403 — one a plain Apache Forbidden, the other a branded "Access Denied" bot-challenge page — so
the endpoint is recorded as UNVERIFIED. Bot-blocked is a finding, not a gap; the entry is kept and marked rather than
deleted or credited.'
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: Website
url: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
common:
- 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: authentication/technical-university-of-darmstadt-authentication.yml
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://idp.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/hlr/index.en.jsp
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.hda.tu-darmstadt.de/hochschuldidaktik/infoseiten_hd/handreichung_ki_hd/handreichung_ki_verteilerseite.de.jsp
- type: AITooling
url: https://www.e-learning.tu-darmstadt.de/online_lehre/ki_in_der_lehre/index.de.jsp
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/impressum/index.en.jsp
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/datenschutzerklaerung
- type: Support
url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/kontakt_1/index.en.jsp
- type: Blog
url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/aktuelles_meldungen/index.en.jsp
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/technical-university-of-darmstadt-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/technical-university-of-darmstadt-domain-security.yml
- 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
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