# Trinity College Dublin

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/trinity-college-dublin/  
**Website:** https://www.tcd.ie/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Trinity College Dublin (the University of Dublin) is Ireland's oldest university, founded in 1592, and ranked #98 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is not organized around a dedicated developer portal or a documented open-API program; instead it is expressed through standards-based scholarly infrastructure. The Library of Trinity College Dublin runs TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive), a DSpace institutional repository that exposes an OAI-PMH metadata interface, and Digital Collections, a Hyrax/Samvera platform that serves IIIF Presentation manifests for digitised manuscripts including the Book of Kells. Both are publicly reachable in a browser but currently sit behind bot-mitigation (Cloudflare / reCAPTCHA), so they are not openly machine-callable without interactive access. Federated identity is provided through HEAnet's Edugate (eduGAIN) SAML federation rather than a public OAuth/OpenID developer API.

## Kin Score — 21.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **TARA OAI-PMH (Trinity's Access to Research Archive)** — TARA is Trinity College Dublin's open-access institutional repository, built on DSpace. It exposes an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interfa...
- **TCD Digital Collections (IIIF)** — Digital Collections is the Library of Trinity College Dublin's Hyrax/Samvera-based digital asset repository, providing access to digitised manuscripts and collections including ...

## Security (1)

- **Trinity College Dublin Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Trinity College Dublin Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Ireland, Library, Repository, Open Access, IIIF, OAI-PMH

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/trinity-college-dublin/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.