# Georg-August-Universität Göttingen SAML Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gottingen/identity-provider/  
**Provider:** University of Göttingen — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-gottingen/  
**Base URL:** https://shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de/uni/  
**Documentation:** https://www-portal.gwdg.de/en/services/general-services/sso-aai/

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen SAML Identity Provider is one of 7 APIs that [University of Göttingen](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-gottingen/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and Authentication. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

The university's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de/uni/shibboleth, registered by DFN-AAI, exported to eduGAIN as entity 696098 since 2017-04-13, scope uni-goettingen.de, Sirtfi-compliant. It is the institution's most substantial machine-readable surface and the one class of university interface that cannot be a vendor's by definition. Operated with GWDG; the login front end identifies itself as GWDG SSO / SimpleSAMLphp and carries the university's own branding. Attribute release, not OAuth scopes, is the authorisation model.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://technical.edugain.org/entities?e_name=Georg-August
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-gottingen/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-gottingen-authentication.yml

## Other University of Göttingen APIs (6)

- [GDZ OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gottingen/gdz-oai-pmh/)
- [eDiss Göttingen OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gottingen/ediss-oai-pmh/)
- [SUB Göttingen IIIF Image and Presentation](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gottingen/sub-iiif/)
- [GRO.data (Göttingen Research Online) Research Data Repository](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gottingen/grodata/)
- [Stud.IP Learning Management REST and JSON:API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gottingen/studip/)
- [SUB Göttingen Library Catalogue (GUK)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gottingen/opac/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, Authentication

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