# Leiden University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider Metadata

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/leiden/saml-idp/  
**Provider:** Leiden University — https://apis.io/providers/leiden/  
**Base URL:** https://login.uaccess.leidenuniv.nl/nidp/saml2/metadata  
**Documentation:** https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/about-us

Leiden University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider Metadata is one of 9 APIs that [Leiden University](https://apis.io/providers/leiden/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include SAML, Identity Federation, SSO, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

Leiden University's own SAML 2.0 identity-provider metadata document, authored and XML-DSig signed by Leiden and served as text/xml from login.uaccess.leidenuniv.nl. Asserts the scopes leidenuniv.nl and umail.leidenuniv.nl. This is the machine-readable contract every service Leiden federates with consumes, and it is entirely institution-operated.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/leiden/refs/heads/main/authentication/leiden-identity-federation.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/leiden/refs/heads/main/conformance/leiden-domain-standards.yml

## Other Leiden University APIs (8)

- [Scholarly Publications OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/scholarly-oai/)
- [SURFconext Federation Membership](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/surfconext/)
- [DataCite Consortium Membership (VIOJ)](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/datacite/)
- [Crossref Membership — Leiden University Press](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/crossref/)
- [ROR Registration](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/ror/)
- [Yoda Research Data Management Portal (Leiden tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/yoda/)
- [D2L Brightspace LMS (Leiden tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/brightspace/)
- [Library Discovery Catalogue (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/primo/)

## Tags

SAML, Identity Federation, SSO, Metadata

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