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name: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
description: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 3
    summary: >-
      KIT has a real but research-infrastructure-focused public API footprint
      rather than a consolidated developer portal. Verified live: the KITopen
      OAI-PMH endpoints (publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai and the dbkit base
      URL dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai, both returning valid OAI-PMH Identify
      responses with repository name "KITopen"); the dbkit framework page; the
      RADAR / RADAR4KIT REST Archive API (OAuth 2.0, documented by FIZ
      Karlsruhe, gated behind a requested client ID); and the SCC Shibboleth
      IdP. The RADAR production /radar/api/ base path returned 404 to an
      unauthenticated GET (expected — it requires OAuth and specific resource
      paths). No fabricated endpoints; only resources confirmed via live probe
      or official documentation are listed. KIT's open-source code is dispersed
      across many institute-level GitHub orgs (KIT-SCC, KIT-MRT, KIT-IAI, etc.)
      with no single official org.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://www.kit.edu/english/
        status: 200
        note: Official institution website (English).
      - url: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: KITopen OAI-PMH Identify response, valid OAI-PMH 2.0.
      - url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: dbkit/KITopen OAI-PMH base URL reported by Identify.
      - url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
        status: 200
        note: dbkit framework docs (API + OAI interface, import/export).
      - url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/radar.php
        status: 200
        note: RADAR4KIT research-data repository overview.
      - url: https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/radar-api
        status: 200
        note: RADAR REST Archive API documentation (OAuth 2.0).
      - url: https://www.radar-service.eu/radar/api/
        status: 404
        note: Production API base path; 404 on unauthenticated bare GET (OAuth/resource path required).
      - url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
        status: 200
        note: KIT SCC Shibboleth/SAML Identity Provider metadata endpoint.
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kit/
        status: 999
        note: Official LinkedIn school page; 999 is LinkedIn bot-block, page exists.