# UB SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/ub-idp-edugain/  
**Provider:** University of Barcelona — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-barcelona/  
**Base URL:** https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp  
**Documentation:** https://technical.edugain.org/entities

UB SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN) is one of 10 APIs that [University of Barcelona](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-barcelona/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and RedIRIS. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

The University of Barcelona's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, published as a signed EntityDescriptor through RedIRIS SIR — the Spanish academic identity federation — and carried into eduGAIN. entityID https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp, IDPSSODescriptor, mdui:DisplayName "Universitat de Barcelona", shibmd:Scope ub.edu, registrationAuthority http://www.rediris.es/. SSO and SingleLogout services are hosted for UB at sir.rediris.es/ub/. A federation is shared by definition and the identity behind this entry is UB's; this is the institution's strongest machine-readable surface. Confirmed live 2026-09-01 (HTTP 200, text/xml, 10,980 bytes, validUntil 2026-10-01).

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://www.rediris.es/sir/
- **Authentication** — https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-barcelona/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Barcelona APIs (9)

- [Campus Virtual UB (Moodle) — LTI 1.3 Advantage platform and Web Services](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/campusvirtual-moodle/)
- [Revistes Científiques de la UB (OJS) — OAI-PMH 2.0](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/revistes-ojs/)
- [UB Centralized SSO (Identificació UB, SAML 2.0 / CAS)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/sso-saml/)
- [Dipòsit Digital REST API (DSpace 7)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/diposit-rest/)
- [Dipòsit Digital OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/diposit-oai/)
- [CORA Repositori de Dades de Recerca — Universitat de Barcelona collection](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/cora-rdr-ub/)
- [Cercabib — CRAI library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE, view 34CSUC_UB)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/cercabib-primo/)
- [Crossref membership — Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona (member 17854)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/crossref-member/)
- [ROR registration — Universitat de Barcelona (021018s57)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-barcelona/ror-registration/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, RedIRIS, Authentication

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