# Queen's University Belfast Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/identity-federation-idp/  
**Provider:** Queen's University Belfast — https://apis.io/providers/queens-university-belfast/  
**Base URL:** http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fqub.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/

Queen's University Belfast Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation) is one of 5 APIs that [Queen's University Belfast](https://apis.io/providers/queens-university-belfast/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, Single Sign-On, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Queen's University Belfast operates a production Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation and, through it, eduGAIN. The signed SAML entity descriptor is machine-readable and individually resolvable through the federation's MDQ service; it declares the qub.ac.uk attribute scope and SAML2 SSO, SLO, artifact-resolution and attribute-query endpoints on qub-shib.qub.ac.uk. QUB additionally registers IdPs for the Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland (honni.qub.ac.uk) and the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (afbi.qub.ac.uk), so it is operating federated identity for organisations beyond itself. This is the one machine-readable surface in this profile that Queen's both runs and publishes.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-belfast/refs/heads/main/conformance/queens-university-belfast-conformance.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- **HumanURL** — https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-belfast/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Queen's University Belfast APIs (4)

- [Queen's University Belfast Research Portal — OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/research-portal-oai/)
- [Queen's University Belfast Pure API deployment (Elsevier Pure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/pure-web-service-api/)
- [Queen's University Belfast Canvas LMS deployment (Instructure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/canvas-lms/)
- [Queen's University Belfast Research Portal — DataCite repository client](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/datacite-repository-client/)

## Tags

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

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