--- name: Tokyo Institute of Technology description: Tokyo Institute of Technology public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tokyo-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/review.yml created: '2026-06-03' modified: '2026-08-30' reviews: - date: '2026-08-30' rating: 2 summary: >- Re-profiled under the API Evangelist university pipeline, which settles WHO OPERATES each surface before saving anything. Four surfaces are recorded, two institution-operated and two tenant. Institution-operated: the T2R2 research repository OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint on the university's own host (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListIdentifiers, ListSets and two error paths all verified live; prefixes oai_dc and junii2; no set hierarchy; no auth), and the Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, confirmed by name inside the live GakuNin national federation aggregate as OrganizationName "Institute of Science Tokyo". Tenant: the Science Tokyo Repository on JAIRO Cloud (isct.repo.nii.ac.jp, WEKO3, operated by NII and JPCOAR — the data is the university's, the contract is the platform's, so the platform's generic spec is deliberately NOT saved here), and a second GakuNin SAML entity hosted on the commercial EX-TIC platform. The material new finding is a LIFECYCLE one: the institution published a discontinuation schedule on 2026-07-22 retiring T2R2 and STAR Search. T2R2 search ended 2026-08-20; registration ends 2026-10-01; STAR Search already returns HTTP 500. The single institution-operated API surface in this profile is therefore in wind-down, with the successor being a tenant platform — the university's programmable footprint is about to become smaller and less its own. Still no developer portal, no REST API, no open-data portal and no OAuth/OIDC on any institution host. An institutional GitHub org was found and confirmed (github.com/science-tokyo, blog isct.ac.jp, created 2024-12-25, publishing the MIT-licensed Science Tokyo UI front-end), replacing the previous lab-only pointer. No fabricated endpoints; no vendor contract saved under this institution's slug. endpoints: - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler?verb=Identify status: 200 note: Valid OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify. Institution-operated. Sunset scheduled. - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler?verb=ListMetadataFormats status: 200 note: 'Prefixes: oai_dc, junii2.' - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/index_en.html status: 200 note: Redirects to the 2026-07-22 discontinuation notice for T2R2 and STAR Search. - url: https://search.star.titech.ac.jp/ status: 500 note: STAR Search already failing ahead of its announced 2026-10-01 shutdown. - url: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml status: 200 note: >- 5.66 MB GakuNin federation aggregate. Contains the institution's IdP entity (idp-gakunin.nap.gsic.titech.ac.jp) and a tenant entity on isct.ex-tic.com. - url: https://idp-gakunin.nap.gsic.titech.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth status: 200 note: Redirects to the institution's own login portal. Institution-operated SAML IdP. - url: https://isct.repo.nii.ac.jp/ status: 406 note: >- JAIRO Cloud tenant. 406 is the platform edge blocking a curl User-Agent; serves normally to a browser-class client, where /oai?verb=Identify returns a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 response. Live, not dead. - url: https://isct.ex-tic.com/auth/gakunin/saml2/assertions status: 400 note: SAML assertion consumer expecting POST. Tenant surface. Live, not dead. - url: https://strdb.s.isct.ac.jp/html/home_en.html status: 200 note: STRDB researcher database, institution-operated, HTML only — no machine-readable interface. - url: https://syllabus.s.isct.ac.jp/ status: 200 note: Course catalog, institution-operated, HTML only. robots.txt allows all; no API. - url: https://www.t4.cii.isct.ac.jp/docs/ status: 200 note: TSUBAME4 supercomputer manuals. Research computing, institution-operated, docs only. - url: https://www.libra.titech.ac.jp/en status: 200 note: Library site (Drupal 10, institution-operated). Discovery layer is vendor-brokered; no catalog API published. - url: https://github.com/science-tokyo status: 200 note: Institutional GitHub org, 1 public repo (Science-Tokyo-UI, MIT, 38 stars). - url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/001/about/policies status: 200 note: >- Carries the Generative AI Usage Guidelines, Research Policy and Research Data Policy PDFs. The PDF URLs sit behind a CMS download plugin whose key rotates per request, so the AIPolicy pointer targets this stable page instead. - url: https://www.ocw.titech.ac.jp/ status: 0 note: Tokyo Tech OpenCourseWare — host resolves but every connection times out. No successor notice found. - url: https://api.isct.ac.jp/ status: 0 note: NXDOMAIN. No developer API host exists. - url: https://data.isct.ac.jp/ status: 0 note: NXDOMAIN. No open-data portal exists. - date: '2026-06-03' rating: 2 summary: >- Tokyo Institute of Technology (now part of the merged Institute of Science Tokyo / Science Tokyo, isct.ac.jp) has a thin public machine-readable API footprint. The clearest documented interface verified live is the T2R2 Research Repository OAI-PMH endpoint, which returned a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify response (repository name "T2R2 -Tokyo Tech Research Repository-", OCLC OAICat). Identity is federated SAML/Shibboleth via GakuNin, not a public OAuth/OpenID Connect API. No official institution-wide REST developer portal or open-data API was found; the api-evangelist GitHub org for cataloging is confirmed, but no official Science Tokyo institutional GitHub org exists (only lab/research orgs such as prg-titech). LinkedIn returns 999 to bots but resolves in a browser; X handle is @sciencetokyo_en. No fabricated endpoints included. endpoints: - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/oaipmh/OAIHandler?verb=Identify status: 200 note: Valid OAI-PMH 2.0 Identify response; public, no signup. - url: https://t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp/index_en.html status: 200 note: T2R2 repository English landing / human docs. - url: https://www.isct.ac.jp/en status: 200 note: Official Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Tech) website. - url: https://www.gsic.titech.ac.jp/en status: 403 note: GSIC center pages (T2R2/IdP operator); blocks bot UA, browser-accessible. - url: https://idp-gakunin.nap.gsic.titech.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth status: 0 note: GakuNin Shibboleth SAML IdP entity (metadata endpoint, not a REST API). - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sciencetokyo/ status: 999 note: LinkedIn school page; 999 is LinkedIn bot block, resolves in browser. - url: https://github.com/api-evangelist status: 200 note: Cataloging GitHub org confirmed to exist.