# UCL Identity Provider — UK Access Management Federation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ucl/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** UCL — https://apis.io/providers/ucl/  
**Base URL:** http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml  
**Documentation:** https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/

UCL Identity Provider — UK Access Management Federation is one of 6 APIs that [UCL](https://apis.io/providers/ucl/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, eduGAIN, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

UCL is a registered Identity Provider in the UK Access Management Federation (Jisc), and by extension in eduGAIN. Its SAML metadata is published in the federation's machine-readable aggregate under entityID https://shib-idp.ucl.ac.uk/shibboleth, carrying OrganizationDisplayName 'UCL (University College London)', a Shibboleth shibmd:Scope of ucl.ac.uk, and a registrationInstant of 2009-12-04. This is the surface class a university is supposed to operate by definition, and UCL is the case that complicates the rule: the SingleSignOnService locations in UCL's own federation metadata do not point at any UCL host, they point at login.openathens.net/saml/2/sso/ucl.ac.uk/c/ukfed. The entityID, the scope and the federation membership are UCL's; the SAML service is operated by OpenAthens on an institution-specific path, so the operator is recorded as tenant rather than institution.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucl/refs/heads/main/conformance/ucl-education-standards-conformance.yml

## Other UCL APIs (5)

- [UCL Discovery — OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/discovery-oai/)
- [UCL Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/research-data-repository/)
- [UCL Profiles / IRIS (Symplectic Elements tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/profiles/)
- [UCL Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/library-discovery/)
- [UCL site search (Funnelback tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/site-search/)

## Tags

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

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