# Heriot-Watt University Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Heriot-Watt University — https://apis.io/providers/heriot-watt/  
**Base URL:** https://shib1.hw.ac.uk/  
**Documentation:** https://shib1.hw.ac.uk/shibboleth-idp/shibboleth

Heriot-Watt University Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation) is one of 6 APIs that [Heriot-Watt University](https://apis.io/providers/heriot-watt/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, and eduGAIN.

Heriot-Watt operates its own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider and is a registered member of the UK Access Management Federation (registrationAuthority http://ukfederation.org.uk), which in turn exports to eduGAIN. Four entities carry OrganizationName "Heriot-Watt University": the IdP entityIDs https://shib1.hw.ac.uk/shibboleth, https://shibprod.hw.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth and https://shibdev.hw.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth (test), plus a service-provider entity https://courses.scholar.hw.ac.uk/shibboleth for the SCHOLAR Programme. Signed, per-entity SAML metadata is retrievable over the federation's MDQ interface; the shib1 IdP also serves its own metadata directly. This is a genuinely institution-operated, machine-readable surface, and the only Heriot-Watt one that is not a repository. Only shib1.hw.ac.uk resolves in public DNS today (137.195.101.235, Heriot-Watt's own allocation); the shibprod, shibdev and courses.scholar names are registered in federation metadata but return NXDOMAIN, so the federation registration is currently ahead of the deployment.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Metadata** — https://shib1.hw.ac.uk/shibboleth-idp/shibboleth
- **IdentityFederation** — http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fshib1.hw.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth
- **Registry** — https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/

## Other Heriot-Watt University APIs (5)

- [Heriot-Watt Research Output Service (ROS)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/research-output-service/)
- [Heriot-Watt Research Portal (Elsevier Pure)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/research-portal/)
- [Heriot-Watt Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/library-discovery/)
- [Heriot-Watt Canvas (Instructure)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/canvas/)
- [Heriot-Watt LibCal (Springshare)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/libcal/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, eduGAIN

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