University of Göttingen

---
aid: university-of-gottingen
name: University of Göttingen
description: >-
  The University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) is a public
  research university in Lower Saxony, Germany, ranked #254 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint is delivered
  mainly through campus partners: the Göttingen State and University Library
  (SUB Göttingen) publishes digital-library interfaces such as the IIIF Image/
  Presentation APIs and a custom TextAPI for digitized objects, while the
  Göttingen eResearch Alliance operates the GRO.data (Göttingen Research Online)
  Dataverse research-data repository, which exposes an OAI-PMH endpoint and a
  Dataverse REST search API. There is no single official institution-wide
  developer portal; identity is handled via SAML/Shibboleth and OpenID Connect
  AAI run with GWDG.
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/university-of-gottingen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Digital Library
  - IIIF
  - OAI-PMH
  - Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-gottingen:grodata-oai
    name: GRO.data OAI-PMH Metadata
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for GRO.data (Göttingen Research
      Online), the Dataverse-based research-data repository for the Göttingen
      Campus operated by the Göttingen eResearch Alliance. Supports the standard
      OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListSets, ListRecords, GetRecord, etc.).
    humanURL: https://data.goettingen-research-online.de
    baseURL: https://data.goettingen-research-online.de/oai
    tags: [ Research Data, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Repository, Dataverse ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.goettingen-research-online.de/oai?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-gottingen:grodata-rest
    name: GRO.data Dataverse REST API
    description: >-
      Dataverse native REST/search API for the GRO.data research-data
      repository, allowing programmatic search and retrieval of datasets and
      files held for the Göttingen Campus. Follows the open-source Dataverse API
      conventions.
    humanURL: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
    baseURL: https://data.goettingen-research-online.de/api
    tags: [ Research Data, REST, Search, Repository, Dataverse ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-gottingen-grodata-rest.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-gottingen-dataset-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/university-of-gottingen-dataset-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/university-of-gottingen-search-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-ruleset
        url: rules/university-of-gottingen-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-gottingen-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/university-of-gottingen-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-gottingen:sub-iiif
    name: SUB Göttingen IIIF API
    description: >-
      International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Image and
      Presentation API support across the Göttingen State and University Library
      (SUB Göttingen) digital collections, including the Göttingen
      Digitalization Center (GDZ), enabling interoperable access to digitized
      images and manifests.
    humanURL: https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital-library/digital-tools/iiif-at-the-goettingen-state-and-university-library/
    tags: [ IIIF, Digital Library, Images, Manifests ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital-library/digital-tools/iiif-at-the-goettingen-state-and-university-library/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/subugoe/go-iiif
  - aid: university-of-gottingen:sub-textapi
    name: SUB Göttingen TextAPI
    description: >-
      TextAPI is an open specification developed by SUB Göttingen for serving
      text and metadata of digital objects, consumed by the TIDO text viewer.
      Used to present transcriptions and structured text of digitized materials.
    humanURL: https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital-library/digital-tools/text-viewer-for-digital-objects-tido-textapi/
    tags: [ Text, Digital Library, Metadata, Specification ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/digital-library/digital-tools/text-viewer-for-digital-objects-tido-textapi/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/subugoe/tido
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uni-goettingen
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/subugoe
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-gottingen/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www-portal.gwdg.de/en/services/general-services/sso-aai/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-gottingen-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-gottingen-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-gottingen-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]