University of Tübingen

The University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), founded in 1477 in Tübingen, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the country and ranks #222 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It is a public research university serving roughly 23,000 to 35,000 students. Its publicly documented developer/API footprint is modest and centers on its institutional research data repository, FDAT, run by the Digital Humanities Center on the InvenioRDM platform, which exposes a JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint. Source code from several university units is published across multiple GitHub organizations, including the University Library.

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---
aid: university-of-tubingen
name: University of Tübingen
description: >-
  The University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), founded in
  1477 in Tübingen, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the country
  and ranks #222 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It is a public
  research university serving roughly 23,000 to 35,000 students. Its publicly
  documented developer/API footprint is modest and centers on its institutional
  research data repository, FDAT, run by the Digital Humanities Center on the
  InvenioRDM platform, which exposes a JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata
  harvesting endpoint. Source code from several university units is published
  across multiple GitHub organizations, including the University Library.
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-tubingen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Germany
  - Open Data
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-tubingen:fdat-rest
    name: FDAT Repository REST API
    description: >-
      JSON REST API for the FDAT institutional research data repository,
      operated by the University of Tübingen Digital Humanities Center on the
      InvenioRDM platform. Provides programmatic access to published records,
      metadata (DataCite/Dublin Core), files, versions, DOIs, and IIIF
      manifests.
    humanURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de
    baseURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/api/records
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, InvenioRDM, DataCite, IIIF ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de
  - aid: university-of-tubingen:fdat-oai
    name: FDAT Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the FDAT research data
      repository. Exposes dataset metadata in DataCite and Dublin Core formats
      for harvesting by discovery and aggregation services. Administered by
      [email protected].
    humanURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de
    baseURL: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/oai2d
    tags: [ Research Data, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, DataCite ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/oai2d?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ubtue
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-tuebingen
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/se-tuebingen
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-tubingen-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-tubingen-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-tubingen-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]

University of Tübingen

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FDAT Repository REST API

FDAT Repository OAI-PMH

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University Of Tubingen Context

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