# University of Basel SWITCHaai / eduGAIN Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-basel/switchaai-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Basel — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-basel/  
**Base URL:** https://aai-logon.unibas.ch/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://its.unibas.ch/en/

University of Basel SWITCHaai / eduGAIN Identity Provider is one of 7 APIs that [University of Basel](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-basel/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and SWITCHaai. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Basel's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://aai-logon.unibas.ch/idp/shibboleth, registered in the SWITCHaai federation and exported to eduGAIN. Its metadata declares shibmd:Scope unibas.ch, swissEduPersonHomeOrganization unibas.ch, swissEduPersonHomeOrganizationType "university", REFEDS Research & Scholarship, the GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct v1, MyAcademicID ESI, and REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. The same aggregate carries thirty-two Basel-operated service providers under unibas.ch — ADAM, forschdb2, grants, drittmittel, personeninfo, oauth-logon and the faculty systems. The federation aggregate is published by SWITCH; the entity, its keys and its endpoints are the university's. Metadata verified live 2026-08-30 (HTTP 200, 21.3 MB aggregate); the IdP host itself publishes no public DNS record, so the metadata is the readable surface.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **x-saml-metadata** — https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
- **Documentation** — https://www.switch.ch/aai/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-basel/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-basel-conformance.yml

## Other University of Basel APIs (6)

- [edoc DSpace REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-basel/edoc-rest/)
- [edoc OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-basel/edoc-oai/)
- [sciCORE OpenID Connect Issuer](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-basel/scicore-oidc/)
- [ADAM (ILIAS) LTI launch endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-basel/adam-lti/)
- [UNIverse Research Information System API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-basel/universe-research-information/)
- [swisscovery (SLSP / Ex Libris Alma) SRU — Basel institution zone](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-basel/swisscovery-sru/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, SWITCHaai

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