TU Dresden

aid: tu-dresden
name: TU Dresden
description: 'Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) is one of Germany''s leading research universities and a member
  of the German Universities Excellence Initiative, located in Dresden, Saxony. It ranks #234 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and largely tied to academic infrastructure: a gated lecture-catalog
  (course directory) JSON API, the Shibboleth SAML-based single sign-on identity provider operated by the Center for Information
  Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), the OpARA research-data repository, and the Qucosa document server which
  exposes an OAI-PMH interface. The Saxony State and University Library (SLUB Dresden), which serves the university, additionally
  publishes a documented Linked Open Data API for bibliographic and authority data.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Library
- Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: tu-dresden:lecture-catalog
  name: TU Dresden Lecture Catalog API
  description: 'Gated JSON API providing automated access to public data from the TU Dresden lecture directory (Vorlesungsverzeichnis):
    courses, seminars, instructors, buildings, semesters, institutes and degree programs. Access requires requesting an API
    account; an auth_code query parameter is appended to requests. At least 10 seconds must elapse between calls.'
  humanURL: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
  baseURL: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Catalog
  - Timetable
  - Education
  - JSON
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
- aid: tu-dresden:sso-shibboleth
  name: TU Dresden Shibboleth Single Sign-On (SAML IdP)
  description: SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider operated by the ZIH for authentication and authorization of TU Dresden
    services, and usable by external services for federated login (DFN-AAI). OIDC support is planned but not yet available.
    Metadata is published at the shibboleth endpoint.
  humanURL: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/docu/
  baseURL: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/docu/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/idp/shibboleth
- aid: tu-dresden:qucosa-oai
  name: Qucosa OAI-PMH (TU Dresden Document Server)
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Qucosa, the document and publication server used by TU Dresden
    (tud.qucosa.de) for theses, dissertations and open-access publications. Supports standard OAI verbs such as Identify,
    ListRecords and GetRecord.
  humanURL: https://tud.qucosa.de/
  baseURL: https://tud.qucosa.de/oai/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Publications
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tud.qucosa.de/oai/?verb=Identify
- aid: tu-dresden:opara
  name: OpARA Research Data Repository
  description: OpARA (Open Access Repository and Archive) is the research-data repository for researchers of TU Dresden and
    TU Bergakademie Freiberg, operated by the ZIH. It supports long-term archiving and open-access publication of research
    data and is registered as a data provider in OpenAIRE/OpenDOAR.
  humanURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
  baseURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - Archive
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/projekte/opara
- aid: tu-dresden:slub-lod
  name: SLUB Dresden Linked Open Data API
  description: Documented Linked Open Data API published by the Saxony State and University Library (SLUB Dresden), which
    serves TU Dresden. Provides bibliographic and authority data (Resources, Persons, Organizations, Events, Places, Works,
    Topics) aggregated from K10Plus, SWB, GND and Wikidata, with /search, /source, /reconcile and entity-lookup endpoints.
    Interactive Swagger UI is available. Implementation is Apache 2.0 licensed.
  humanURL: https://data.slub-dresden.de/
  baseURL: https://data.slub-dresden.de
  tags:
  - Library
  - Linked Open Data
  - Bibliographic
  - Authority
  - Swagger
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.slub-dresden.de/doc/swagger_api
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/slub/data.slub-dresden.de
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tu-dresden-slub-lod.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/tu-dresden-entity-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/tu-dresden-entity-structure.json
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/tu-dresden-context.jsonld
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/tu-dresden-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/tu-dresden-rules.yml
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/tu-dresden-search-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/tu-dresden-entity-example.json
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://tu-dresden.de/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/tu-dresden
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://de.linkedin.com/school/tu-dresden/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tu-dresden-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tu-dresden-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tu-dresden-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com