# Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Victoria University of Wellington — https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://tuakiri.ac.nz/

Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN) is one of 10 APIs that [Victoria University of Wellington](https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Tuakiri, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

The university's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. entityID https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope vuw.ac.nz, metadata served unauthenticated over HTTPS GET and republished in the signed Tuakiri (New Zealand Access Federation) aggregate, where it has been registered since 2012-06-26 and from where it reaches eduGAIN. Carries the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and a REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. Advertises SAML2 HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP single sign-on, HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect single logout, persistent and transient NameID formats, and an eduPerson/SCHAC/auEduPerson attribute release including mail, schacHomeOrganization, schacHomeOrganizationType and auEduPersonSharedToken. This is institution-operated by definition and is the university's strongest machine-readable asset.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/openapi/victoria-university-of-wellington-identity-federation-openapi.yml
- **x-openapi-original** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/openapi/_original/victoria-university-of-wellington-identity-federation.yaml
- **x-example** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/examples/victoria-university-of-wellington-idp-saml-metadata.xml
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoria-university-of-wellington/refs/heads/main/conformance/victoria-university-of-wellington-conformance.yml
- **Documentation** — https://tuakiri.ac.nz/
- **x-federation-metadata** — https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml

## Other Victoria University of Wellington APIs (9)

- [Website Global Object](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/website-global-object/)
- [Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/institutional-repository/)
- [Open Access Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/open-access-repository-figshare/)
- [Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/te-waharoa-discovery/)
- [Nuku Learning Management (Instructure Canvas tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/nuku-canvas-lms/)
- [Research Information System (Symplectic Elements tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/symplectic-elements/)
- [Enterprise Single Sign-On (WSO2 Identity Server)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/enterprise-sso-wso2/)
- [Student Records (Ellucian Banner Self-Service tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/student-records-banner/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID Tenant (production browser sign-on)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/entra-id-federation/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Tuakiri, eduGAIN, Institution-Operated

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