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Universität Hamburg

Universität Hamburg is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany, ranked #191 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and machine-readable footprint is concentrated in library and open-access infrastructure operated by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) and the Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZ), rather than a single branded developer portal. Confirmed public interfaces include a DSpace-based institutional dissertation repository (ediss.sub.hamburg) exposing an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint, and an official Universität Hamburg open-source presence on GitHub. Campus systems such as the STiNE campus-management platform and Shibboleth/SAML single sign-on are gated and not openly documented as public APIs.

Universität Hamburg publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Germany, and Open Access.

The Universität Hamburg catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Universität Hamburg’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, authentication, and 8 more developer resources.

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20.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityGermanyOpen AccessLibraryMetadataOAI-PMH

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 20.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

E-Dissertationen (ediss.sub.hamburg) OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface for the DSpace-based institutional repository of electronic dissertations and habilitations of Universität Hamburg, operated by the Staats-...

Open-Access-Portal Universität Hamburg

Open Access discovery portal aggregating freely available publications, research data, teaching materials, and scientific collections of Universität Hamburg. Underlying IT servi...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Universitat Hamburg Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Universitat Hamburg Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Universitat Hamburg Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Universitat Hamburg Context

8 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Universitat Hamburg Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub
 SourceCode
SourceCode

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: universitat-hamburg
name: Universität Hamburg
description: 'Universität Hamburg is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany, ranked #191 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public developer and machine-readable footprint is concentrated in library and open-access infrastructure
  operated by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) and the Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZ), rather than a single branded
  developer portal. Confirmed public interfaces include a DSpace-based institutional dissertation repository (ediss.sub.hamburg)
  exposing an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint, and an official Universität Hamburg open-source presence on GitHub. Campus systems
  such as the STiNE campus-management platform and Shibboleth/SAML single sign-on are gated and not openly documented as public
  APIs.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/universitat-hamburg.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/universitat-hamburg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Germany
- Open Access
- Library
- Metadata
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: universitat-hamburg:ediss-oai
  name: E-Dissertationen (ediss.sub.hamburg) OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface for the DSpace-based institutional repository of electronic dissertations
    and habilitations of Universität Hamburg, operated by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg. The endpoint supports
    the standard OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, etc.) and was verified live returning Dublin
    Core metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/service/publizieren/dissertationen/e-dissertationen-der-uhh.html
  baseURL: https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/service/publizieren/dissertationen/e-dissertationen-der-uhh.html
- aid: universitat-hamburg:open-access-portal
  name: Open-Access-Portal Universität Hamburg
  description: Open Access discovery portal aggregating freely available publications, research data, teaching materials,
    and scientific collections of Universität Hamburg. Underlying IT services (repositories and metadata exports such as OAI)
    are operated by the Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZ); no single public, documented REST API is published, so this entry
    indexes the human-facing portal and its harvestable metadata infrastructure.
  humanURL: https://www.openaccess.uni-hamburg.de/en.html
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openaccess.uni-hamburg.de/en.html
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/universitat-hamburg-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Uni-Hamburg
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universitaet-hamburg/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://gitlab.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/services/weitere/authentifizierung/shibboleth/configure.html
- type: Plans
  url: plans/universitat-hamburg-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/universitat-hamburg-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/universitat-hamburg-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com