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Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is an autonomous public research university in Singapore, ranked in the top 15 of the QS World University Rankings. Its programmable footprint is small, indirect, and almost entirely research-infrastructure: NTU operates no public developer portal, publishes no API key self-service, and exposes no OAuth or OIDC authorization server on any host it owns. Exactly one machine-readable API is genuinely NTU-operated — DR-NTU (Data), a Dataverse 6.1 open research data repository that NTU self-hosts on its own network (researchdata.ntu.edu.sg CNAMEs to dataverse.ntu.edu.sg at 155.69.19.238, registered to Nanyang Technological University), backed by NTU's own DataCite client GDCC.NTU with 3,625 DOIs under prefix 10.21979. Everything else that carries NTU's name is a tenancy on someone else's platform. DR-NTU (Digital Repository), the far larger surface with 158,100 research profiles, a DSpace 7 REST API and a fully conformant OAI-PMH endpoint, answers on dr.ntu.edu.sg but CNAMEs to ntu-cris.4science.cloud — NTU's data and NTU's library administration running on 4Science's DSpace-CRIS platform. NTU's federated single sign-on is a live SAML 2.0 identity provider in eduGAIN, but the entityID and endpoints sit on SingAREN's SGAF proxy, not on ntu.edu.sg. NTU owns a live API gateway at api.ntu.edu.sg which returns a structured JSON 404 on every path and documents no route at all. This profile records the tenancies as the real institutional facts they are, and credits NTU only for what NTU actually operates.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Nanyang Technological University the way a machine reads it — 27 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Nanyang Technological University scores 43.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Public but machine-unreadable

Why this profile is thin

researchdata.ntu.edu.sg (DR-NTU (Data), the one x-operator: institution surface) returns an Apache 403 with a Citrix bot-management cookie and a /trap.html honeypot link on EVERY path, including the site root and robots.txt. Retrying with a browser User-Agent and a persisted cookie jar did not clear it. This is a block on us, not a decommissioned service: NTU's DataCite client minted a DOI on 2026-08-17, two days before this profile, and re3data independently lists the REST, OAI-PMH and SWORD endpoints as current. The archived contract in openapi/_original/ntu-drntu-data.yaml is therefore retained and the two refined specs kept, but marked unverified in authentication/ and errors/. A re-probe from a different vantage should upgrade this to covered. Every other surface WAS read live: dr.ntu.edu.sg answered 200 on /server/api and on OAI-PMH Identify and ListMetadataFormats, the SGAF SAML metadata returned 200 application/samlmetadata+xml, and eduGAIN, DataCite and re3data all answered. Four of the six OpenAPIs previously in this repo were removed: refine-openapis had merged three source specs spanning two different hosts by tag and stamped all six with the first spec's server, so the DSpace paths (/, /core/items/{uuid}, /discover/search/objects) and the OAI-PMH /request path were all asserting researchdata.ntu.edu.sg as their host, which never served them.

The documentation is public — a person can read it, but a machine cannot. This one is Nanyang Technological University's to change: publishing an OpenAPI (or AsyncAPI for events) at a stable URL would make the same surface consumable by a crawler, a linter, and an AI agent.

What we probed
  • https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/api/info/versionHTTP 403
  • https://researchdata.ntu.edu.sg/robots.txtHTTP 403
  • https://api.datacite.org/dois?client-id=gdcc.ntuHTTP 200
  • https://www.re3data.org/api/v1/repository/r3d100012440HTTP 200
  • https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/server/apiHTTP 200
  • https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/oai/request?verb=IdentifyHTTP 200
  • https://ntu-entra.singaren.net.sg/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.phpHTTP 200
  • https://api.ntu.edu.sg/HTTP 404
  • https://www.ntu.edu.sg/HTTP 200

If this is out of date, tell us on the provider's repo and we will re-run the profile.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile Nanyang Technological University

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Nanyang Technological University. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 8

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

DR-NTU (Data) — Dataverse API

NTU's institutional open research data repository, running Dataverse 6.1 self-hosted on NTU's own network. The publicly documented, unauthenticated read subset covers dataset se...

DR-NTU (Digital Repository) — DSpace-CRIS REST API

NTU's institutional publications and research-profile repository — 158,100 research profiles, records back to 2008 — served from NTU's own hostname but operated on 4Science's DS...

DR-NTU (Digital Repository) — OAI-PMH

A fully conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint over DR-NTU, serving 11 metadata formats and declaring OpenAIRE CERIF-CRIS 1.1 compatibility on a second base URL. Ad...

NTU Identity Provider — SGAF / eduGAIN

NTU's SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the Singapore Access Federation (SGAF) by SingAREN and interfederated into eduGAIN, asserting the scope ntu.edu.sg. Live machine-...

Nanyang Technological University Discover API

The Discover API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for discover.

Nanyang Technological University Items API

The Items API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for items.

Nanyang Technological University OAI PMH API

The OAI-PMH API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for oai-pmh.

Nanyang Technological University Root API

The Root API from Nanyang Technological University — 1 operation(s) for root.

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Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ntu Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ntu Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

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

Ntu Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

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

Ntu Context

16 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Nanyang Technological University API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Nanyang Technological University API Rules

7 rules · 2 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

DR-NTU (Data) Dataset Search Item

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DR-NTU (Digital Repository) Item

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Ntu Dataset Structure

21 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ntu Item Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Ntu Discover Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Ntu Search Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

Ntu Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Ntu Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Ntu Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Ntu Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Nanyang Technological University — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Nanyang Technological University, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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