University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) is a public research university in Lower Saxony, Germany, founded 1737, a German U15 member and QS-ranked in the mid-200s. Its programmable footprint is real but small, and it belongs almost entirely to the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen) rather than to the university's central IT: two live OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoints on the university's own domains — the Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum, harvesting back to 1998, and the eDiss dissertation server, which disseminates the German national xMetaDissPlus, epicur and picaxml profiles — plus a IIIF Image API 2.0 level-2 image service and IIIF Presentation manifests for the digitised collections. The university also operates its own SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in DFN-AAI, exported to eduGAIN and Sirtfi-compliant, and holds the DataCite prefix 10.25625 as repository client SUBGOE.GRO. There is no central developer portal, no self-service API key, no published rate limits and no OpenAPI authored by the institution; every specification in this repository was written by API Evangelist from live probes and is marked as such. The GRO.data research-data repository and the SUB library catalogue are recorded here as relationships rather than as Göttingen contracts — GRO.data runs Dataverse and the catalogue resolves onto the GBV/VZG library platform.
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 University of Göttingen the way a machine reads it — 17 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 — University of Göttingen scores 40.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (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
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How we profile University of Göttingen
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Göttingen. 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 7
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.
GDZ OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum, operated by SUB Göttingen on the university's own domain. Verified live on 2026-08-30: Identify names...
eDiss Göttingen OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for eDiss Göttingen, the university's electronic dissertations and theses server, operated by SUB Göttingen on the uni-goettingen.de domain. Ver...
SUB Göttingen IIIF Image and Presentation
IIIF Image API 2.0 (level 2) image service at images.sub.uni-goettingen.de and IIIF Presentation manifests routed through gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de with canonical identifiers on...
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen SAML Identity Provider
The university's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de/uni/shibboleth, registered by DFN-AAI, exported to eduGAIN as entity 696098 si...
GRO.data (Göttingen Research Online) Research Data Repository
GRO.data is the Göttingen Campus research-data repository, operated by the Göttingen eResearch Alliance and hosted at GWDG on data.goettingen-research-online.de. The deployment,...
Stud.IP Learning Management REST and JSON:API
The university self-hosts Stud.IP, the open-source German learning management system, at studip.uni-goettingen.de and exposes its REST and JSON:API surfaces there. Anonymous cal...
SUB Göttingen Library Catalogue (GUK)
The Göttingen university catalogue is served from opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de, which is a DNS CNAME to lbsgoe.gbv.de — the library system platform of the Verbundzentrale des GBV....
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Open Collections 1
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
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.
University Of Gottingen 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.
Examples 3
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for University of Göttingen — 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
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
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
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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