specification: API Evangelist Conformance
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: University of Göttingen
providerId: university-of-gottingen
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: generated
x-evidence-method: probed
source: >-
  Live probes of Göttingen-operated endpoints and of third-party registries that record Göttingen
  as the registered party (eduGAIN technical database, DataCite REST API), all on 2026-08-30.
regime: education
description: >-
  Conformance to the Kin Score `education` regime standards, evidenced from contracts and live
  responses rather than from prose claims on institutional web pages. Only hits that could be
  demonstrated by calling something are recorded. Standards in the regime list with no evidence
  are recorded as not-found rather than left implied.
standards:
- standard: oai-pmh
  status: conformant
  confidence: high
  operator: institution
  evidence:
  - url: https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/oai2/?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName "GDZ - OAI Frontend",
      repositoryIdentifier gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de, adminEmail gdz@sub.uni-goettingen.de,
      earliestDatestamp 1998-03-01. Institution-operated host.
  - url: https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/oai2/?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
    detail: Disseminates oai_dc and mets (METS/MODS).
  - url: https://ediss.uni-goettingen.de/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Second institution-operated repository — eDiss Göttingen, the dissertation server, on the
      university's registrable domain. Disseminates oai_dc, xMetaDissPlus, epicur and picaxml.
  contract:
  - openapi/university-of-gottingen-gdz-oai-pmh-openapi.yml#/paths/~1oai2~1/get
  - openapi/university-of-gottingen-ediss-oai-pmh-openapi.yml#/paths/~1oai~1request/get
- standard: shibboleth
  status: conformant
  confidence: high
  operator: institution
  evidence:
  - url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_entities&format=json
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      eduGAIN entity 696098 — entityID https://shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de/uni/shibboleth,
      displayName "Georg-August-Universität Göttingen", registration authority
      https://www.aai.dfn.de (DFN-AAI), scope uni-goettingen.de, IDPSSODescriptor role,
      sirtfi_status 1, first seen 2017-04-13.
  - url: https://shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de/uni/shibboleth
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Live identity provider on the university's own host, branded "In publica commoda" and
      running as GWDG SSO / SimpleSAMLphp.
- standard: saml
  status: conformant
  confidence: high
  operator: institution
  evidence:
  - url: https://shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de/uni/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      SAML 2.0 HTTP-Redirect single sign-on endpoint responds on the institution's own IdP host.
      The entity is registered as a SAML IdP in DFN-AAI and exported to eduGAIN.
- standard: datacite
  status: conformant
  confidence: high
  operator: institution
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.25625
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      DOI prefix 10.25625 is allocated to DataCite client subgoe.gro, created 2017-04-11.
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/subgoe.gro
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Client SUBGOE.GRO, name "Göttingen Research Online", clientType repository, member since
      2017, registered domains uni-goettingen.de, gwdg.de,
      data.goettingen-research-online.de. The DOI-minting relationship is the institution's own.
not_found:
- standard: scim
  detail: No SCIM 2.0 endpoint found on any institution-operated host.
- standard: lti
  detail: >-
    The university runs Stud.IP as its learning management system, which supports LTI, but no
    public LTI registration or platform configuration endpoint was reachable without credentials.
- standard: oneroster
  detail: Not applicable to the German higher-education stack; nothing found.
- standard: ed-fi
  detail: US K-12 standard; not applicable and nothing found.
- standard: caliper
  detail: No Caliper analytics endpoint found.
- standard: qti
  detail: No public QTI surface found; assessment runs behind FlexNow and Stud.IP authentication.
- standard: orcid
  detail: >-
    SUB Göttingen operates ORCID advisory and integration services for its researchers, and
    GRO.publications collects ORCID iDs, but no ORCID member API endpoint or public ORCID
    integration contract operated by the institution could be probed. Prose claim only —
    deliberately not counted.
- standard: crossref
  detail: >-
    Göttingen University Press publishes with DOIs, but no Crossref depositor relationship
    operated by the institution could be evidenced from a callable surface.