---
aid: tu-dresden
name: TU Dresden
description: >-
  Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) is one of Germany's leading
  research universities and a member of the German Universities Excellence
  Initiative, located in Dresden, Saxony. It ranks #234 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and
  largely tied to academic infrastructure: a gated lecture-catalog (course
  directory) JSON API, the Shibboleth SAML-based single sign-on identity
  provider operated by the Center for Information Services and High Performance
  Computing (ZIH), the OpARA research-data repository, and the Qucosa document
  server which exposes an OAI-PMH interface. The Saxony State and University
  Library (SLUB Dresden), which serves the university, additionally publishes a
  documented Linked Open Data API for bibliographic and authority data.
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/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Library
  - Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: tu-dresden:lecture-catalog
    name: TU Dresden Lecture Catalog API
    description: >-
      Gated JSON API providing automated access to public data from the TU
      Dresden lecture directory (Vorlesungsverzeichnis): courses, seminars,
      instructors, buildings, semesters, institutes and degree programs. Access
      requires requesting an API account; an auth_code query parameter is
      appended to requests. At least 10 seconds must elapse between calls.
    humanURL: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
    baseURL: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
    tags: [ Courses, Catalog, Timetable, Education, JSON ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://vvz.phil.tu-dresden.de/api
  - aid: tu-dresden:sso-shibboleth
    name: TU Dresden Shibboleth Single Sign-On (SAML IdP)
    description: >-
      SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider operated by the ZIH for
      authentication and authorization of TU Dresden services, and usable by
      external services for federated login (DFN-AAI). OIDC support is planned
      but not yet available. Metadata is published at the shibboleth endpoint.
    humanURL: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/docu/
    baseURL: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Authentication, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Identity ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/docu/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://idp.tu-dresden.de/idp/shibboleth
  - aid: tu-dresden:qucosa-oai
    name: Qucosa OAI-PMH (TU Dresden Document Server)
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for Qucosa, the document and
      publication server used by TU Dresden (tud.qucosa.de) for theses,
      dissertations and open-access publications. Supports standard OAI verbs
      such as Identify, ListRecords and GetRecord.
    humanURL: https://tud.qucosa.de/
    baseURL: https://tud.qucosa.de/oai/
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, Publications ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tud.qucosa.de/oai/?verb=Identify
  - aid: tu-dresden:opara
    name: OpARA Research Data Repository
    description: >-
      OpARA (Open Access Repository and Archive) is the research-data
      repository for researchers of TU Dresden and TU Bergakademie Freiberg,
      operated by the ZIH. It supports long-term archiving and open-access
      publication of research data and is registered as a data provider in
      OpenAIRE/OpenDOAR.
    humanURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
    baseURL: https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Open Access, Archive ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/projekte/opara
  - aid: tu-dresden:slub-lod
    name: SLUB Dresden Linked Open Data API
    description: >-
      Documented Linked Open Data API published by the Saxony State and
      University Library (SLUB Dresden), which serves TU Dresden. Provides
      bibliographic and authority data (Resources, Persons, Organizations,
      Events, Places, Works, Topics) aggregated from K10Plus, SWB, GND and
      Wikidata, with /search, /source, /reconcile and entity-lookup endpoints.
      Interactive Swagger UI is available. Implementation is Apache 2.0 licensed.
    humanURL: https://data.slub-dresden.de/
    baseURL: https://data.slub-dresden.de
    tags: [ Library, Linked Open Data, Bibliographic, Authority, Swagger ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.slub-dresden.de/doc/swagger_api
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/slub/data.slub-dresden.de
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/tu-dresden-slub-lod.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/tu-dresden-entity-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/tu-dresden-entity-structure.json
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/tu-dresden-context.jsonld
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/tu-dresden-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/tu-dresden-rules.yml
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/tu-dresden-search-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/tu-dresden-entity-example.json
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://tu-dresden.de/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/tu-dresden
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://de.linkedin.com/school/tu-dresden/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/tu-dresden-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/tu-dresden-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/tu-dresden-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com