TU Dresden
Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) is one of Germany's leading research universities and a member of the German Universities Excellence Initiative, located in Dresden, Saxony. It ranks #234 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and largely tied to academic infrastructure: a gated lecture-catalog (course directory) JSON API, the Shibboleth SAML-based single sign-on identity provider operated by the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), the OpARA research-data repository, and the Qucosa document server which exposes an OAI-PMH interface. The Saxony State and University Library (SLUB Dresden), which serves the university, additionally publishes a documented Linked Open Data API for bibliographic and authority data.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles TU Dresden the way a machine reads it — 22 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — TU Dresden scores 41.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (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.
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 TU Dresden
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for TU Dresden. 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 9
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.
TU Dresden Lecture Catalog API
Gated JSON API providing automated access to public data from the TU Dresden lecture directory (Vorlesungsverzeichnis): courses, seminars, instructors, buildings, semesters, ins...
TU Dresden Shibboleth Single Sign-On (SAML IdP)
SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider operated by the ZIH for authentication and authorization of TU Dresden services, and usable by external services for federated login (DFN-A...
Qucosa OAI-PMH (TU Dresden Document Server)
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Qucosa, the document and publication server used by TU Dresden (tud.qucosa.de) for theses, dissertations and open-access publicatio...
OpARA Research Data Repository
OpARA (Open Access Repository and Archive) is the research-data repository for researchers of TU Dresden and TU Bergakademie Freiberg, operated by the ZIH. It supports long-term...
TU Dresden authority_search API
Authority Provider Identifier Search
TU Dresden explorative search API
API endpoint to be use with the explorative search webapp
TU Dresden reconcile API
Openrefine Reconcilation and Data Extension Operations
TU Dresden search and access API
Search and Access Operations
TU Dresden source API
Source data access operation
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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.
Tu Dresden 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.
Tu Dresden Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Tu Dresden Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
TU Dresden API Rules
SPECTRALTU Dresden API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
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.
SLUB LOD Entity
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
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.
Tu Dresden Entity 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.
Tu Dresden Entity Example
EXAMPLETu Dresden Search Example
EXAMPLESecurity 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.
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 TU Dresden — 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.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
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
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