# TU Dresden

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tu-dresden/  
**Website:** https://tu-dresden.de/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 32.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

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

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 (9)

- **TU Dresden Lecture Catalog API** — Gated JSON API providing automated access to public data from the TU Dresden lecture directory (Vorlesungsverzeichnis): courses, seminars, instructors, buildings, semesters, ins...
- **TU Dresden Shibboleth Single Sign-On (SAML IdP)** — 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-A...
- **Qucosa OAI-PMH (TU Dresden Document Server)** — 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 publicatio...
- **OpARA Research Data Repository** — 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...
- **TU Dresden authority_search API** — Authority Provider Identifier Search
- **TU Dresden explorative search API** — API endpoint to be use with the explorative search webapp
- **TU Dresden reconcile API** — Openrefine Reconcilation and Data Extension Operations
- **TU Dresden search and access API** — Search and Access Operations
- **TU Dresden source API** — Source data access operation

## Agentic access (1)

- **Tu Dresden Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Tu Dresden Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Tu Dresden Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Tu Dresden Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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