RWTH Aachen University

---
aid: rwth-aachen-university
name: RWTH Aachen University
description: >-
  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.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rwth-aachen-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  - Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: rwth-aachen-university:coscine
    name: Coscine Research Data API
    description: >-
      Coscine (Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment) is RWTH Aachen
      University's research data management platform. It provides a public,
      Swagger/OpenAPI-documented REST API for managing projects, resources,
      metadata, and research data stored via S3-based object storage, following
      FAIR principles. Access requires an API access token. Official C#, TypeScript,
      and a community Python SDK are available.
    humanURL: https://docs.coscine.de/en/api/api/
    baseURL: https://coscine.rwth-aachen.de/coscine/api/
    tags: [ Research Data, FAIR, REST, OpenAPI, Data Management ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.coscine.de/en/api/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://coscine.rwth-aachen.de/coscine/api/swagger/v2/swagger.json
      - type: Swagger
        url: https://coscine.rwth-aachen.de/coscine/api/swagger/index.html
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.coscine.de/en/api/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/rwth-aachen-university-coscine.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/rwth-aachen-university-project-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/rwth-aachen-university-resource-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/rwth-aachen-university-apitoken-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/rwth-aachen-university-project-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/rwth-aachen-university-resource-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/rwth-aachen-university-get-project-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/rwth-aachen-university-get-resource-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/rwth-aachen-university-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/rwth-aachen-university-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/rwth-aachen-university-context.jsonld
  - aid: rwth-aachen-university:publications-oai
    name: RWTH Publications OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      RWTH Publications is the institutional repository providing access to the
      publication output of RWTH Aachen University. It exposes metadata via the
      Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) at
      publications.rwth-aachen.de/oai2d, enabling third-party harvesting of
      bibliographic records. The repository is indexed by OpenAIRE and re3data.
    humanURL: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/
    baseURL: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/oai2d
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Repository, Metadata, Open Access, Scholarly ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/
      - type: Repository
        url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012911
  - aid: rwth-aachen-university:sso
    name: RWTH Single Sign-On (OAuth2 / OpenID Connect / Shibboleth)
    description: >-
      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, and Refresh grants) as well as
      Shibboleth/SAML2 federated authentication via the DFN-AAI federation.
      Application registration is handled through the OAuth2 Management Interface.
    humanURL: https://help.itc.rwth-aachen.de/en/service/rhb2fhkpjhb7/
    tags: [ Authentication, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Shibboleth, SAML, Identity ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://help.itc.rwth-aachen.de/en/service/rhb2fhkpjhb7/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://oauth.campus.rwth-aachen.de/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://git.rwth-aachen.de/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rwth-aachen-university/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.itc.rwth-aachen.de/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/rwth-aachen-university-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/rwth-aachen-university-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/rwth-aachen-university-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]