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.

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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
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/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: 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

University of Tübingen

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FDAT Repository REST API

FDAT Repository OAI-PMH

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University Of Tubingen Plans Pricing

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University Of Tubingen Rate Limits

FinOps

University Of Tubingen Finops

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University Of Tubingen Context

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