# King's UK Access Management Federation / eduGAIN Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/uk-federation-idp/  
**Provider:** King's College London — https://apis.io/providers/kings-college-london/  
**Base URL:** https://login.openathens.net/saml/2/sso/kcl.ac.uk/c/ukfed  
**Documentation:** https://libanswers.kcl.ac.uk/faq/226697

King's UK Access Management Federation / eduGAIN Identity Provider is one of 6 APIs that [King's College London](https://apis.io/providers/kings-college-london/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, Identity Federation, SSO, SAML, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

King's federated identity, and the surface class this pipeline flags as most often missed. The entity is registered in the UK Access Management Federation (uk001282, registered 2010-04-22, registration authority ukfederation.org.uk) and exported to eduGAIN, carrying a shibmd:Scope of kcl.ac.uk, signing and encryption keys, SAML 2.0 / SAML 1.1 / urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0 protocol support, a SIRTFI assurance certification, REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity-category support, a security contact at sirtfi@kcl.ac.uk and a technical contact at ade.tayo@kcl.ac.uk. It is not self-service and it is not REST, but it is a published, signed, machine-readable interface contract that King's is accountable for. A second registered entity, https://kclidpdev.kcl.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth, carries the hide-from-discovery category and is a development deployment — not counted as a surface.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **x-saml-metadata** — https://met.refeds.org/met/entity/https%3A%2F%2Fkclidp.kcl.ac.uk%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth/
- **Documentation** — https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/authentication/kings-college-london-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/conformance/kings-college-london-education-standards.yml

## Other King's College London APIs (5)

- [King's e-Research AI Hub API](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/er-ai-hub/)
- [King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/pure-oai/)
- [King's College London Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/figshare-repository/)
- [King's LibrarySearch (Ex Libris Primo)](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/librarysearch-primo/)
- [KEATS Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) web services](https://apis.io/apis/kings-college-london/keats-moodle/)

## Tags

Identity, Identity Federation, SSO, SAML, eduGAIN

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