# UNIGE Shibboleth Identity Provider (SWITCHaai)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/switchaai-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Geneva — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-geneva/  
**Base URL:** https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml  
**Documentation:** https://www.switch.ch/aai/

UNIGE Shibboleth Identity Provider (SWITCHaai) is one of 11 APIs that [University of Geneva](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-geneva/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

The University of Geneva's own SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider, published as machine-readable metadata in SWITCHaai, the Swiss national research and education identity federation. entityID https://idp.unige.ch/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope unige.ch, SSO delegated to SWITCH edu-ID at unige.login.eduid.ch. 123 unige.ch entityIDs are registered in the same document, including archive-ouverte, gitlab, moodle, mediaserver, votamatic and the eResearch authorization server. A federation is shared by definition and the IdP behind it is the institution's own — this is UNIGE's strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface and the credential behind nearly every gated service below. Verified live 2026-09-01.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-geneva/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-geneva-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-geneva/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-geneva-conformance.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-geneva/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Geneva APIs (10)

- [Archive ouverte UNIGE OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/archive-ouverte-oai/)
- [Yareta Access API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/university-of-geneva-access-api/)
- [Yareta Ingest API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/university-of-geneva-ingest-api/)
- [Yareta OAI-PMH Provider API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/university-of-geneva-oai-pmh-api/)
- [UNIGE GitLab REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/gitlab/)
- [Terminus Protein Prediction API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/terminus/)
- [swisscovery UNIGE (SLSP / Ex Libris)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/swisscovery-slsp/)
- [DataCite Repository Membership](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref Membership](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR Organization Identifier](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-geneva/ror-registration/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, Single Sign-On

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