# University of Bristol Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML 2.0)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/idp-shibboleth/  
**Provider:** University of Bristol — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.bris.ac.uk/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO  
**Documentation:** https://idp.bris.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth

University of Bristol Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML 2.0) is one of 5 APIs that [University of Bristol](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, and UK Access Management Federation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs and API documentation.

Bristol operates its own Shibboleth identity provider at idp.bris.ac.uk, publishing SAML 2.0 metadata anonymously at /idp/shibboleth (200, application/xml, 5,990 bytes) and registered in the UK Access Management Federation as entityID https://idp.bris.ac.uk/shibboleth, OrganizationName "University of Bristol", registrationAuthority http://ukfederation.org.uk, registrationInstant 2010-09-09T16:18:44Z, with shibmd:Scope bris.ac.uk. The entity asserts the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category. Both an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor are present, with Shibboleth, SAML2 Redirect, SAML2 POST and SAML2 POST-SimpleSign SSO bindings. A second, hide-from-discovery test IdP (idp-dev.isys.bris.ac.uk, registered 2016-11-15) and one Bristol-owned service provider (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com, registered 2022-01-26) are registered under the same organization. Institution-operated by definition; the machine-readable artifact is XML metadata rather than an HTTP API, so no OpenAPI is claimed.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://idp.bris.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-bristol-domain-standards.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-bristol-authentication.yml
- **Documentation** — https://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml

## Other University of Bristol APIs (4)

- [University of Bristol Research Portal OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/research-portal-oai-pmh/)
- [data.bris Research Data Repository](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/data-bris-research-data-repository/)
- [Elsevier Pure Web Services (University of Bristol tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/pure-web-services/)
- [University of Bristol Library Discovery (OCLC WorldCat Discovery)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/library-discovery-worldcat/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, UK Access Management Federation

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