Texas A&M University

aid: texas-a-m-university
name: Texas A&M University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Texas A&M University is a public land-grant research university in College Station, Texas, the flagship of the
  Texas A&M University System, and ranked #154 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Unlike most institutions in this
  cohort it is not a pure buyer: several of the surfaces recorded here are Texas A&M''s own engineering on Texas A&M''s own
  hosts, and each one below was fetched and given a status code before it was written down.

  The genuinely institution-operated tier is four contracts wide. Texas A&M GeoServices (geoservices.tamu.edu) publishes a
  documented, free, self-service geocoding and address normalisation API at version 5.0.0 that returns up to 172 output fields
  — a research product of the university''s geospatial group and the strongest institution-authored API in the higher-education
  catalog. The Aggie Map application backend (api.aggiemap.tamu.edu) serves campus dining locations with live open/closed
  state as GeoJSON, and a companion feed on geoservices.tamu.edu serves live shared-micromobility vehicle positions; both
  are undocumented, unauthenticated backends rather than offered products, and are recorded as such. Texas A&M IT runs a public
  Esri ArcGIS Server (gis.it.tamu.edu, mirrored at gis.tamu.edu) whose services directory answers anonymously across seven
  folders of campus base maps, construction, transit and event-flow layers.

  Two further institution-operated surfaces are protocol surfaces rather than REST APIs. The university''s Shibboleth Identity
  Provider publishes SAML 2.0 metadata unauthenticated from idp.tamu.edu and is registered in InCommon as urn:mace:incommon:tamu.edu,
  which carries it into eduGAIN — the surface class this cohort was most completely missing. The OAKTrust institutional repository
  exposes a working OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint whose Identify response names Texas A&M Libraries'' own help desk and no vendor at
  all, which is rare in this cohort.

  Against that, the enterprise tier is closed. The Texas A&M University System API Developer Portal (api-doc.sea.system.tamus.edu)
  is live but renders nothing without a sponsored System account; the UIN Services API is documented in prose and gated behind
  subscription approval by the System Enterprise Applications DevOps group, so no base URL and no specification is published.
  There is no open-data portal — data.tamu.edu resolves in DNS but every HTTPS connection times out — no llms.txt, and no
  student-facing course or registrar API. The course catalog is a Leepfrog CourseLeaf tenancy and the LMS is an Instructure
  Canvas tenancy; both are real relationships and neither is Texas A&M''s contract. Texas A&M Libraries holds DOI prefix 10.21423
  as a registrant at both DataCite and Crossref, and the university carries ROR id 01f5ytq51.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - probe
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-service
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  - plans
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United States
- Texas
- Public Research University
- Land Grant
- Research
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- Geospatial
- Geocoding
- Open Data
- Library
- Course Catalog
- Campus Life
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: Texas A&M is not a thin profile. Six institution-operated surfaces were probed anonymously and answered — the GeoServices
    Geocoding API, the Aggie Map dining GeoJSON feed, the campus micromobility vehicle feed, the Texas A&M IT ArcGIS REST
    services directory, the OAKTrust OAI-PMH endpoint and the Shibboleth IdP SAML metadata — and four of them are described
    by a contract in openapi/ with its operator settled. Four limits on that coverage are recorded rather than papered over.
    First, the Texas A&M University System enterprise tier (api-doc.sea.system.tamus.edu, the UIN Services API) is live but
    returns no catalog and no specification to an unauthenticated caller, and every portal discovery route tried returned
    404; it is inventoried from Texas A&M's own documentation and never described as callable. Second, a Cloudflare managed
    challenge returns HTTP 403 with a "Just a moment…" interstitial to automated requests on oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/api,
    scholars.library.tamu.edu and hprc.tamu.edu even with a browser User-Agent, so the DSpace REST API, Scholars@TAMU and
    the High Performance Research Computing site are recorded as live-but-blocked — a fact about our access, not about Texas
    A&M. Third, data.tamu.edu resolves in DNS (CNAME weasel.tamu.edu) but timed out on every HTTPS attempt, so no open-data
    portal is claimed. Fourth, GeoServices returns HTTP 200 for failed calls and carries the real 401/402 inside the JSON
    body, so a successful geocode response could not be observed without an account key and its success schema is marked derived,
    not probed.
  evidence:
  - url: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Api/Geocode/V5/?version=5.0.0&streetAddress=1101%20Texas%20Ave&city=College%20Station&state=TX&zip=77840&format=json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.aggiemap.tamu.edu/dining/locations/geojson
    status: 200
  - url: https://veoride.geoservices.tamu.edu/api/vehicles/basic/geojson
    status: 200
  - url: https://gis.it.tamu.edu/arcgis/rest/services?f=json
    status: 200
  - url: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp.tamu.edu/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Atamu.edu
    status: 200
  - url: https://catalog.tamu.edu/ribbit/?page=getcourse.rjs&code=ENGR%20102
    status: 200
  - url: https://api-doc.sea.system.tamus.edu/api/portal/v1.3/discovery/apis
    status: 404
  - url: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/api
    status: 403
  - url: https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/
    status: 403
  - url: https://hprc.tamu.edu/
    status: 403
  - url: https://data.tamu.edu/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.tamu.edu/llms.txt
    status: 404
apis:
- aid: texas-a-m-university:geoservices-geocode
  name: Texas A&M GeoServices Geocoding API
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Free geocoding, address normalisation and standardisation, census intersection and reverse geocoding from
    Texas A&M GeoServices. Version 5.0.0 returns up to 172 output fields; an API key from a free self-service account profile
    is required on every request and travels as a query parameter. Institution-operated: geoservices.tamu.edu is under Texas
    A&M''s own registrable domain and the service is the university''s own research product, not a platform vendor''s. Verified
    live 2026-09-01 — an anonymous call returns HTTP 200 carrying queryStatusCode APIKeyMissing, which confirms both the parameter
    contract and the auth model.'
  humanURL: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/WebService/Details/
  baseURL: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Api/Geocode/V5/
  tags:
  - Geocoding
  - Geospatial
  - Address
  - GIS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/texas-a-m-university-geoservices-geocoding-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/WebService/Details/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Signup/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/About/Legal/TermsOfUse.aspx
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/About/Legal/Privacy.aspx
- aid: texas-a-m-university:aggiemap-dining
  name: Aggie Map Dining Locations API
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Read-only GeoJSON feed of Texas A&M campus dining locations with live open/closed state, status message, street
    address and an occupancy signal, served from the university''s own Aggie Map backend. Verified 200 on 2026-09-01 returning
    54 features to an anonymous request. Texas A&M publishes no documentation, terms or rate limit for this host: it is an
    application backend, not an offered product, and availability should be treated as unguaranteed.'
  humanURL: https://aggiemap.tamu.edu/
  baseURL: https://api.aggiemap.tamu.edu
  tags:
  - Campus Life
  - Dining
  - GeoJSON
  - Geospatial
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/texas-a-m-university-aggiemap-dining-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/texas-a-m-university-dining-location.json
  - type: Example
    url: examples/texas-a-m-university-dining-locations-geojson-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aggiemap.tamu.edu/
- aid: texas-a-m-university:campus-micromobility
  name: Campus Micromobility Vehicle Positions API
  x-operator: institution
  description: Live positions of shared micromobility vehicles on and around campus as GeoJSON, served from veoride.geoservices.tamu.edu
    inside Texas A&M's own geoservices estate. Verified 200 on 2026-09-01 returning 3,300 Point features. The scooter fleet
    is a vendor's; the feed is published from a Texas A&M host. Every feature's properties object is empty, so no vehicle
    id, type, battery level or availability is exposed — that absence is recorded deliberately.
  humanURL: https://aggiemap.tamu.edu/
  baseURL: https://veoride.geoservices.tamu.edu
  tags:
  - Campus Life
  - Transportation
  - Micromobility
  - GeoJSON
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/texas-a-m-university-campus-micromobility-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/texas-a-m-university-micromobility-vehicles.json
  - type: Example
    url: examples/texas-a-m-university-micromobility-vehicles-geojson-example.json
- aid: texas-a-m-university:gis-arcgis-rest
  name: Texas A&M IT ArcGIS REST Services
  x-operator: institution
  description: Public Esri ArcGIS Server operated by Texas A&M IT, serving campus base maps, ADA routes, construction, department
    search, transit lots, bike maps and event pedestrian/vehicle flow layers. The services directory answered anonymously
    on 2026-09-01 at currentVersion 11.5 with folders FCOR, Hosted, Routing, System, Testing, TS and Utilities, and is mirrored
    under a second Texas A&M hostname at gis.tamu.edu. The deployment, the hostnames and the layers are Texas A&M's; the REST
    contract itself is Esri's product specification and is deliberately NOT saved into this repository under Texas A&M's name.
  humanURL: https://gis.it.tamu.edu/arcgis/rest/services
  baseURL: https://gis.it.tamu.edu/arcgis/rest/services
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - GIS
  - ArcGIS
  - Campus Life
  properties:
  - type: Example
    url: examples/texas-a-m-university-arcgis-services-catalog-example.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://gis.it.tamu.edu/arcgis/rest/services?f=json
- aid: texas-a-m-university:oaktrust-oaipmh
  name: OAKTrust Institutional Repository — OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for OAKTrust, the Texas A&M University Libraries institutional repository.
    Verified 200 on 2026-09-01: repositoryName "OAKTrust", repositoryIdentifier oaktrust.library.tamu.edu, adminEmail helpdesk@library.tamu.edu,
    metadata prefixes including didl and mods. The repository software is DSpace, but no vendor appears anywhere in the Identify
    response and the host is Texas A&M''s, so this is recorded as institution-operated rather than as a tenant relationship.
    The legacy DSpace 6 path /oai/request returns 403 behind a Cloudflare challenge; the working endpoint is the DSpace 7
    path under /server.'
  humanURL: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/
  baseURL: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Example
    url: examples/texas-a-m-university-oaktrust-oaipmh-identify-example.xml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: texas-a-m-university:identity-federation
  name: Texas A&M Shibboleth Identity Provider Metadata
  x-operator: institution
  description: SAML 2.0 metadata for Texas A&M University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, published unauthenticated from
    idp.tamu.edu. Verified 200 with content-type application/xml on 2026-09-01; the entityID served here is urn:mace:tamu.edu:shibboleth:idp:tamu:administrative:cscn:idp.tamu.edu.
    This evidences the education regime's shibboleth and saml domain standards from a document that can be fetched and parsed.
  humanURL: https://it.tamu.edu/
  baseURL: https://idp.tamu.edu/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/texas-a-m-university-identity-federation-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://idp.tamu.edu/idp/shibboleth
- aid: texas-a-m-university:incommon-registration
  name: InCommon Federation Registration
  x-operator: federation
  description: Texas A&M University's registration in the InCommon identity federation, resolvable through InCommon's per-entity
    Metadata Query service under entityID urn:mace:incommon:tamu.edu. Verified 200 as application/samlmetadata+xml on 2026-09-01,
    carrying mdui:DisplayName "Texas A&M University" and SingleSignOnService endpoints at idp.tamu.edu. A federation is shared
    by definition and the MDQ service is InCommon's; the entity it returns is Texas A&M's, so the relationship is recorded
    and InCommon's own contract is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://incommon.org/federation/
  baseURL: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Atamu.edu
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - InCommon
  - SAML
  - eduGAIN
  properties:
  - type: Example
    url: examples/texas-a-m-university-incommon-entity-example.xml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Atamu.edu
- aid: texas-a-m-university:uin-services
  name: UIN Services API
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Texas A&M University System enterprise API to search, verify, create and update Universal Identification Numbers.
    Gated: access requires registering an application, subscribing to UIN Proxy Services v3 in the System API Catalog, and
    approval by the System Enterprise Applications DevOps group, with x-api-key authentication. The documentation page and
    the developer portal both return 200, but every unauthenticated portal discovery route tried returned 404, so no base
    URL and no specification is published. Inventoried from Texas A&M''s own documentation and never described here as callable.'
  humanURL: https://it.tamus.edu/uinmanager/api/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Enterprise
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://it.tamus.edu/uinmanager/api/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-doc.sea.system.tamus.edu/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://it.tamus.edu/uinmanager/api/
- aid: texas-a-m-university:course-catalog
  name: Texas A&M Course Catalog (CourseLeaf)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: The Texas A&M academic catalog runs on Leepfrog CourseLeaf at catalog.tamu.edu. Its machine-readable course-detail
    route answered 200 as text/xml on 2026-09-01 for /ribbit/?page=getcourse.rjs&code=ENGR%20102, returning a courseinfo document
    with the course block. The host and the catalog content are Texas A&M's; the endpoint shape and the software are CourseLeaf's,
    shared by every CourseLeaf customer, so the relationship is recorded as a tenancy and no contract is saved under Texas
    A&M's name.
  humanURL: https://catalog.tamu.edu/
  baseURL: https://catalog.tamu.edu/ribbit/
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Curriculum
  - CourseLeaf
  properties:
  - type: Example
    url: examples/texas-a-m-university-courseleaf-course-example.xml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://catalog.tamu.edu/
- aid: texas-a-m-university:canvas-lms
  name: Canvas Learning Management System (tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Texas A&M''s learning management system is Instructure Canvas: canvas.tamu.edu is a CNAME to texasam-vanity.instructure.com.
    The tenancy is a real institutional fact and is recorded here; the Canvas REST API, its OAuth flows and any LTI conformance
    are Instructure''s contract and are not saved under Texas A&M''s name.'
  humanURL: https://canvas.tamu.edu/
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - LMS
  - Canvas
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://canvas.tamu.edu/
- aid: texas-a-m-university:datacite-membership
  name: DataCite Registrant — Texas A&M Libraries
  x-operator: registry
  description: Texas A&M Libraries is a DataCite consortium organization (provider CXAU) whose record carries Texas A&M University's
    own ROR id, https://ror.org/01f5ytq51, and which owns the repository client TDL.TAMU, "Texas A&M University Libraries",
    registered in 2018. DOI prefix 10.21423 is bound to that client and 8,925 DOIs are registered under it. This is a membership
    fact about the institution; DataCite's own API contract is never saved as Texas A&M's.
  humanURL: https://commons.datacite.org/providers/cxau
  baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/clients/tdl.tamu
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - DOI
  - DataCite
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/cxau
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/texas-a-m-university-domain-standards.yml
- aid: texas-a-m-university:crossref-membership
  name: Crossref Member — Texas A&M University Libraries
  x-operator: registry
  description: Texas A&M University Libraries is Crossref member 14385, holding DOI prefix 10.21423 with 7,464 registered
    DOIs (706 current, 6,758 backfile) as of 2026-09-01. The same prefix is registered at DataCite, a dual-registrant relationship
    that is uncommon in this cohort. Membership is recorded; Crossref's own API contract is not saved as Texas A&M's.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/14385
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - DOI
  - Crossref
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.crossref.org/members/14385
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/texas-a-m-university-domain-standards.yml
- aid: texas-a-m-university:ror-registration
  name: ROR Registration
  x-operator: registry
  description: Texas A&M University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/01f5ytq51, with
    domain tamu.edu, established 1876, types education and funder, and cross-references to GRID grid.264756.4, ISNI 0000 0004
    4687 2082, Wikidata Q49212 and 21 Crossref Funder Registry identifiers. Verified 200 on 2026-09-01.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/01f5ytq51
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/organizations/https://ror.org/01f5ytq51
  tags:
  - Registry
  - ROR
  - Identifiers
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ror.org/01f5ytq51
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tamu.edu
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-doc.sea.system.tamus.edu/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/WebService/Details/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://it.tamus.edu/uinmanager/api/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/About/Legal/TermsOfUse.aspx
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.tamu.edu/statements/privacy.html
- type: Support
  url: https://it.tamu.edu/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tamu-edu
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/tamu-edu
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/TAMULib
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/texas-a-m-university/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://library.tamu.edu/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://catalog.tamu.edu/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Atamu.edu
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://hprc.tamu.edu/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://ai.tamu.edu/teach-with-ai/use-guidelines-and-ethics.html
- type: AITooling
  url: https://it.tamu.edu/ai-services/index.html
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/texas-a-m-university-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/texas-a-m-university-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/texas-a-m-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/texas-a-m-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/texas-a-m-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: x-authentication
  url: authentication/texas-a-m-university-authentication.yml
- type: x-errors
  url: errors/texas-a-m-university-errors.yml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/texas-a-m-university-domain-standards.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com