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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.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 41.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 5.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 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

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

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

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.

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.

Tu Dresden Context

15 classes · 4 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.

TU Dresden API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

TU Dresden API Rules

7 rules · 4 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON 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

7 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 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.

Tu Dresden Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Tu Dresden 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.

Tu Dresden Agentic Access

18 operations · 1 acting

18 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

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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