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.
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.
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.
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 ProjectPublicationRequest API
Endpoints for the projects.
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.
Rwth Aachen University Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
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
SPECTRALRWTH Aachen University API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
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
JSON STRUCTURERwth Aachen University Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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.
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
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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
← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/rwth-aachen-university · machine-readable index on apis.io