# SURFconext Federation Membership

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/leiden/surfconext/  
**Provider:** Leiden University — https://apis.io/providers/leiden/  
**Base URL:** https://metadata.surfconext.nl/idps-metadata.xml  
**Documentation:** https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/surfconext/

SURFconext Federation Membership 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 Identity Federation, SAML, eduGAIN, SURF, and Netherlands. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

Leiden University's IDPSSODescriptor is published in the SURFconext national identity federation aggregate operated by SURF B.V., carrying mdui:DisplayName "Leiden University" and shibmd:Scope leidenuniv.nl. A federation is shared by definition; the entity inside it is Leiden's. The federation is operationally live — an anonymous request to Leiden's Brightspace tenancy redirects to engine.surfconext.nl with a SAMLRequest. SURFconext's own contract is SURF's and is not saved here.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

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

## Other Leiden University APIs (8)

- [Scholarly Publications OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/scholarly-oai/)
- [Leiden University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/saml-idp/)
- [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

Identity Federation, SAML, eduGAIN, SURF, Netherlands

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/leiden/surfconext/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/leiden/.