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RWTH Aachen University

RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen) is a leading German technical university, ranked #83 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is concentrated in research-data and scholarly-infrastructure services operated by the IT Center and University Library. The most prominent documented public API is Coscine, a FAIR research data management platform exposing a Swagger/OpenAPI-described REST API. The institutional repository RWTH Publications offers an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint, and the IT Center operates a central Single Sign-On supporting OAuth2/OpenID Connect and Shibboleth/SAML2 for application authorization. The university also runs a self-hosted GitLab at git.rwth-aachen.de used widely across its institutes.

agent ready

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 RWTH Aachen University the way a machine reads it — 66 machine-readable artifacts across 49 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 — RWTH Aachen University scores 45.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 45.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
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

How we profile RWTH Aachen University

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for RWTH Aachen 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 49

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.

RWTH Publications OAI-PMH

RWTH Publications is the institutional repository providing access to the publication output of RWTH Aachen University. It exposes metadata via the Open Archives Initiative Prot...

RWTH Single Sign-On (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect / Shibboleth)

The RWTH IT Center operates the central Single Sign-On at sso.rwth-aachen.de, offering OAuth2 and OpenID Connect for web and mobile application authorization (Device, Implicit, ...

RWTH Aachen University Admin API

Endpoints for admin functionality.

RWTH Aachen University ApplicationProfile API

Endpoints for the applications profiles.

RWTH Aachen University Blob API

Endpoints for the Binary Large Objects (BLOBs).

RWTH Aachen University DataHamsterReport API

Controller for generating and downloading project-related reports.

RWTH Aachen University Discipline API

Endpoints for the disciplines.

RWTH Aachen University Graph API

Controller for managing storage operations for project resources.

RWTH Aachen University GraphMetadata API

Controller for managing metadata version history and retrieval for project resources and graph nodes.

RWTH Aachen University GraphMetadataContent API

Controller responsible for accessing and managing RDF metadata content associated with specific graph nodes of a project resource.

RWTH Aachen University Handle API

Endpoints for the handles.

RWTH Aachen University Language API

Endpoints for the languages.

RWTH Aachen University License API

Endpoints for the licenses.

RWTH Aachen University Maintenance API

Endpoints for the maintenances.

RWTH Aachen University Notification API

Endpoints for the notifications.

RWTH Aachen University Organization API

Endpoints for the organizations.

RWTH Aachen University Pid API

Endpoints for the pids.

RWTH Aachen University Project API

Endpoints for the projects.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectGraphContent API

Endpoints for the graphs of projects.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectInvitation API

Endpoints for the project invitations.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectMember API

Endpoints for the project members.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectQuota API

Endpoints for the project quotas.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectResource API

Endpoints for the project resources.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectResourceQuota API

Endpoints for the resource quotas.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectResourceType API

Endpoints for the resource types.

RWTH Aachen University ProjectSubProjects API

Endpoints for the sub-projects.

RWTH Aachen University Provenance API

Endpoints for the provenance information.

RWTH Aachen University PublicationAdvisoryService API

Endpoints for the publication services.

RWTH Aachen University Report API

Controller for generating and downloading project-related reports.

RWTH Aachen University Resource API

Endpoints for the resources.

RWTH Aachen University ResourceGraphContent API

Endpoints for the graphs of resources.

RWTH Aachen University ResourceType API

Endpoints for the resource types.

RWTH Aachen University ResourceTypeGitLab API

Endpoints for the gitlab resource types.

RWTH Aachen University Role API

Endpoints for the roles.

RWTH Aachen University Search API

Endpoints for search.

RWTH Aachen University Self API

Endpoints for the current authenticated user.

RWTH Aachen University SelfApiToken API

Endpoints for the api tokens of a user.

RWTH Aachen University SelfSession API

Endpoints for the current current session.

RWTH Aachen University Storage API

Provides endpoints for managing blob storage operations for project resources, such as checking existence and deleting files or folders.

RWTH Aachen University StorageContent API

Provides endpoints for managing raw file content in blob storage for project resources, including downloading, uploading, and updating files.

RWTH Aachen University SystemStatus API

Endpoints for system status messages.

RWTH Aachen University Title API

Endpoints for the titles.

RWTH Aachen University Tos API

Endpoints for the terms of services (tos).

RWTH Aachen University Tree API

Endpoints for the file and metadata trees.

RWTH Aachen University User API

Endpoints for the users.

RWTH Aachen University UserNotificationOptOut API

Endpoints for the user notification opt outs.

RWTH Aachen University Visibility API

Endpoints for the visibilities.

RWTH Aachen University Vocabulary API

Endpoints for the Endpoints for the vocabularies.

Scroll within the panel for all 49 ·

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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

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.

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.

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.

Rwth Aachen University Context

20 classes · 8 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.

RWTH Aachen University API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

RWTH Aachen University API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

ApiTokenDto

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectDto

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceDto

18 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.

Rwth Aachen University Project Structure

14 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rwth Aachen University Resource Structure

15 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.

Security Posture 3

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.

Rwth Aachen University Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Rwth Aachen University Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Rwth Aachen University Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Rwth Aachen University Agentic Access

194 operations · 47 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

194 operations · 47 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for RWTH Aachen 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.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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