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University of Tübingen

The University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), founded in 1477 in Tübingen, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the country and ranks #222 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It is a public research university serving roughly 23,000 to 35,000 students. Its publicly documented developer/API footprint is modest and centers on its institutional research data repository, FDAT, run by the Digital Humanities Center on the InvenioRDM platform, which exposes a JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint. Source code from several university units is published across multiple GitHub organizations, including the University Library.

University of Tübingen publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, and Germany.

The University of Tübingen catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

University of Tübingen’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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20.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
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Composite quality — 20.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 4.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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.

FDAT Repository REST API

JSON REST API for the FDAT institutional research data repository, operated by the University of Tübingen Digital Humanities Center on the InvenioRDM platform. Provides programm...

FDAT Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the FDAT research data repository. Exposes dataset metadata in DataCite and Dublin Core formats for harvesting by discovery and aggr...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

University Of Tubingen Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Tubingen Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

University Of Tubingen Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

University Of Tubingen Context

20 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

University Of Tubingen 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 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

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: university-of-tubingen
name: University of Tübingen
description: 'The University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), founded in 1477 in Tübingen, Germany, is one
  of the oldest universities in the country and ranks #222 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It is a public research
  university serving roughly 23,000 to 35,000 students. Its publicly documented developer/API footprint is modest and centers
  on its institutional research data repository, FDAT, run by the Digital Humanities Center on the InvenioRDM platform, which
  exposes a JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint. Source code from several university units is published
  across multiple GitHub organizations, including the University Library.'
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/university-of-tubingen.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-tubingen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Germany
- Open Data
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-tubingen:fdat-rest
  name: FDAT Repository REST API
  description: JSON REST API for the FDAT institutional research data repository, operated by the University of Tübingen Digital
    Humanities Center on the InvenioRDM platform. Provides programmatic access to published records, metadata (DataCite/Dublin
    Core), files, versions, DOIs, and IIIF manifests.
  humanURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de
  baseURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/api/records
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - InvenioRDM
  - DataCite
  - IIIF
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de
- aid: university-of-tubingen:fdat-oai
  name: FDAT Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the FDAT research data repository. Exposes dataset metadata in
    DataCite and Dublin Core formats for harvesting by discovery and aggregation services. Administered by fdat@dh-center.uni-tuebingen.de.
  humanURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de
  baseURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/oai2d
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - DataCite
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/oai2d?verb=Identify
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-tubingen-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ubtue
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-tuebingen
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/se-tuebingen
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-tubingen-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-tubingen-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-tubingen-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com