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name: Eindhoven University of Technology
description: Eindhoven University of Technology public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eindhoven-university-of-technology/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      TU/e (QS World 2025 #136) has a modest, mostly vendor-mediated public API
      footprint. Confirmed live: the official website and the Elsevier Pure
      Research Portal (research.tue.nl, 200). The Pure OAI-PMH endpoint
      (pure.tue.nl/ws/oai) and Pure Web Service path resolve but returned 500/999
      errors to bare unauthenticated probes, consistent with Pure requiring
      well-formed OAI verbs or API-key authentication rather than being broken.
      No single consolidated public developer portal was found; course/identity/
      library access is institution-internal or vendor-gated. Many departmental
      GitHub orgs exist (tue-robotics, TUE-EE-ES, tueimage, etc.) but no single
      official org. No endpoints were fabricated; gated/erroring endpoints are
      noted honestly.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://www.tue.nl/en/
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website, live.
      - url: https://research.tue.nl/
        status: 200
        note: Elsevier Pure Research Portal, live ("Powered by Pure").
      - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=Identify
        status: 500
        note: Pure OAI-PMH path resolves; bare request errors, expects valid OAI params.
      - url: https://research.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
        status: 500
        note: Returns JSON error 999; OAI service gated/requires proper request.
      - url: https://purefaq.tue.nl/pure/faq/index.php?action=overview
        status: 200
        note: TU/e Pure FAQ documenting OAI/Pure Web Service usage.
      - url: https://research.tue.nl/ws/api/524/openapi.yaml
        status: 404
        note: No public Pure Web Service OpenAPI spec exposed.
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/eindhoven-university-of-technology/
        status: 200
        note: Official LinkedIn school page.
      - url: https://github.com/TUEIndhoven
        status: 200
        note: A TU/e-related GitHub org; no single official university-wide org.
  - date: '2026-08-30'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      Re-profiled under the API Evangelist university pipeline, which settles WHO OPERATES a
      surface before saving any contract. The June 2026 profile credited TU/e with 37 OpenAPI
      documents. Every one of them was Elsevier's Pure product contract: info.title "Pure API" /
      "Pure activity <Resource> API", info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com, and a relative
      servers entry "/ws/api" carrying no host at all — which is precisely why a hostname-based
      ownership check passed them through as TU/e's own. Nine other universities in this catalog
      ship the same document. All 37, the pristine Pure source in openapi/_original/, and the 90
      artifacts derived from them (73 collections, 3 JSON Schemas, 3 JSON Structures, 3 examples,
      2 Spectral rulesets, vocabulary, JSON-LD context, authentication, agentic-access, capability
      map) were removed. The tenant relationships they described were NOT deleted — they are real
      institutional facts and are now recorded as three apis[] entries, each carrying x-operator.
      Two genuine surfaces were verified this run that the June profile got wrong or missed. The
      Pure OAI-PMH endpoint, recorded in June as returning 500 to a bare probe, is in fact fully
      live and fully conformant when asked correctly: verb=Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets
      and a real ListRecords harvest all return 200 with content. And TU/e's SAML 2.0 identity
      provider entity is published in the SURFconext federation metadata, reachable through
      eduGAIN — a machine-readable institution-level surface the June profile never looked for.
      Expect the Kin Score to fall. It should: the June number was Elsevier's engineering.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: 'LIVE and conformant, correcting the June 500. repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", adminEmail pure@tue.nl, earliestDatestamp 2015-11-10, OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 compatibility asserted.'
      - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
        status: 200
        note: 'Seven prefixes: oai_cerif_openaire, mods, nl_didl, oai_dc, xmetadiss, qdc, uketd_dc.'
      - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListSets
        status: 200
        note: OpenAIRE CRIS entity sets plus per-year publication sets back to 1937.
      - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_cerif_openaire&set=openaire_cris_persons
        status: 200
        note: Real harvest — 110,958 bytes of cerif:Person records with a resumptionToken. Status code and payload, not link presence.
      - url: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/api/documentation/index.html
        status: 200
        note: Elsevier Pure Web Service generated docs for TU/e's deployment; the API is api-key gated. Contract is Elsevier's; no OpenAPI registered here.
      - url: https://metadata.surfconext.nl/idps-metadata.xml
        status: 200
        note: 'NEW FIND. TU/e SAML 2.0 IdP EntityDescriptor present; entityID https://sts.windows.net/cc7df247-60ce-4a0f-9d75-704cf60efc64/, OrganizationName "Technische Universiteit Eindhoven".'
      - url: https://www.tueindhoven.ai/education/guidelines/index.html
        status: 200
        note: 'NEW FIND. TU/e Framework for AI in Engineering Education, adopted by the educational board and program directors in 2024. Recorded as an AIPolicy pointer, not scored as an API.'
      - url: https://purefaq.tue.nl/pure/faq/index.php?action=overview
        status: 403
        note: 'Was a Documentation pointer in June. Body is TU/e''s own "Off-site access blocked — only accessible via the TU/e network or the TU/e VPN". A deliberate institutional gate, not a bot block. Removed as a pointer, kept as coverage evidence.'
      - url: https://osiris.tue.nl/
        status: 200
        note: 'SPA shell only (2,931 bytes, "Osiris Student Mobile"); CSP names vendor backend rontw.osiris-student.nl. Caci product. 200 is not a surface.'
      - url: https://tue.on.worldcat.org/discovery
        status: 200
        note: OCLC WorldCat Discovery SPA shell. Vendor library discovery; no institution-operated catalog API.
      - url: https://data.4tu.nl/search?q=&categories=&organizations=Eindhoven%20University%20of%20Technology
        status: 200
        note: 4TU.ResearchData Figshare consortium; TU/e is one of four members, not the operator. DataCite DOIs are the consortium's, so datacite is NOT claimed for TU/e.
      - url: https://www.tue.nl/.well-known/security.txt
        status: 200
        note: PGP-signed, Expires 2027-02-09; contact and policy both the TU/e CERT RFC 2350 document.
      - url: https://www.tue.nl/llms.txt
        status: 404
        note: Soft-404 — returns the 246KB site 404 page rather than an empty body. No llms.txt.
      - url: https://educationguide.tue.nl/
        status: 200
        note: Rendered course catalog. /api and /openapi.json both 404. No public course API.
      - url: https://github.com/TUEIndhoven
        status: 200
        note: Org resolves but publishes ZERO public repositories. Kept as a pointer because it is live and TU/e's; noted honestly rather than counted as an engineering surface.
      - url: https://github.com/tue-datastewards
        status: 200
        note: TU/e Data Stewards, 5 public repos, research data management tooling. Added as GitHubOrganization.