# Technical University of Berlin

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tu-berlin/  
**Website:** https://www.tu.berlin/en  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany, ranked #66 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is concentrated in research-data and library infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal. The institutional repository DepositOnce runs on DSpace 8.1 and exposes a public OAI-PMH interface and a public DSpace REST/HAL API for harvesting open-access publications and research data. TU Berlin also operates a self-hosted GitLab instance (git.tu-berlin.de) whose API is gated behind Shibboleth SSO, plus public GitHub organizations (TU-Berlin, TUUB). Authentication across services is provided via Shibboleth/SAML (DFN-AAI), operated by the ZECM.

## Kin Score — 22.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| 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 (3)

- **DepositOnce OAI-PMH Interface** — Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0) endpoint for DepositOnce, the institutional repository of TU Berlin. Allows harvesting metadata for open-...
- **DepositOnce DSpace REST API** — DSpace 8.1 REST/HAL API for the DepositOnce repository, exposing communities, collections, items, bitstreams and discovery endpoints. The API root returns a HAL document with ds...
- **TU Berlin GitLab API** — Self-hosted GitLab Enterprise Edition instance for TU Berlin. The GitLab REST API (v4) is present but gated — unauthenticated requests to /api/v4/ return HTTP 401. Login and API...

## Security (1)

- **Tu Berlin Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Tu Berlin Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, Open Access, Repository, Library, Germany

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