# University of Copenhagen SAML 2.0 Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** University of Copenhagen — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-copenhagen/  
**Base URL:** https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata  
**Documentation:** https://www.wayf.dk/

University of Copenhagen SAML 2.0 Identity Provider is one of 8 APIs that [University of Copenhagen](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-copenhagen/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, WAYF, eduGAIN, and Institution-Operated. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

The university publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata (200, 24,737 bytes, text/xml), entityID https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata. Three ku.dk SAML entities are registered in WAYF, the Danish national research-and-education federation and Denmark's eduGAIN participant: the id.ku.dk NetIQ Access Manager IdP, its test twin t-id.ku.dk, and a Windows AD FS endpoint at federation.ku.dk (registered but firewalled — it times out from the public internet). Verified in use: kunet.ku.dk redirects to id.ku.dk/nidp/wsfed/ep to authenticate. Identity federation is institution-operated by definition and is almost never catalogued for this cohort.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Metadata** — https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
- **Documentation** — https://metadata.wayf.dk/birk-idp.xml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-copenhagen/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-copenhagen-authentication.yml

## Other University of Copenhagen APIs (7)

- [University of Copenhagen CURIS OAI-PMH Repository Interface](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/curis-oai-pmh/)
- [Natural History Museum of Denmark Darwin Core Archive Feeds](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/nhmd-darwin-core/)
- [Electronic Research Data Archive (ERDA) and SCIENCE HPC Center](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/erda/)
- [University of Copenhagen Course Catalogue](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/course-catalog/)
- [University of Copenhagen Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/research-portal-pure/)
- [University of Copenhagen DataCite Membership (XIZZ)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/datacite-xizz/)
- [University of Copenhagen Web Platform Source (ku-kom)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/ku-kom-github/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, WAYF, eduGAIN, Institution-Operated

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-copenhagen/identity-federation/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/university-of-copenhagen/.