# University of Groningen Identity Provider (SURFconext / eduGAIN)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-groningen/identity-provider/  
**Provider:** University of Groningen — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-groningen/  
**Base URL:** https://signon.rug.nl/nidp/saml2/metadata  
**Documentation:** https://www.rug.nl/society-business/center-for-information-technology/

University of Groningen Identity Provider (SURFconext / eduGAIN) is one of 6 APIs that [University of Groningen](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-groningen/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, eduGAIN, SURFconext, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs and API documentation.

The University runs its own SAML 2.0 identity provider and publishes signed federation metadata at signon.rug.nl for entityID https://signon.rug.nl/nidp/saml2/metadata. Verified live 2026-08-30: 25KB of XML carrying IDPSSODescriptor, SPSSODescriptor and AttributeAuthorityDescriptor roles, HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-Artifact and SOAP bindings, OrganizationName "Rijksuniversiteit Groningen" and technical contact cit-iam@list.rug.nl. The entity is registered in eduGAIN with SURFconext as registration authority, alongside a second University-registered service provider at enlight.hpc.rug.nl. Machine-readable, institution-operated by definition, and the surface class this cohort almost never has catalogued. The software is NetIQ Access Manager, not Shibboleth.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://signon.rug.nl/nidp/saml2/metadata
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-groningen/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-groningen-education-standards-conformance.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-groningen/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-groningen-authentication.yml
- **Documentation** — https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/surfconext/

## Other University of Groningen APIs (5)

- [University of Groningen Ocasys Course Catalog API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-groningen/ocasys-course-catalog/)
- [University of Groningen Research Database OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-groningen/pure-oai-pmh/)
- [University of Groningen Research Portal (Pure) REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-groningen/pure-ws-api/)
- [University of Groningen research data collection on DataverseNL](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-groningen/dataversenl-collection/)
- [University of Groningen Library discovery (OCLC WorldCat)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-groningen/worldcat-discovery/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, eduGAIN, SURFconext, Single Sign-On

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