Deakin University is a public research university in Victoria, Australia, with campuses in Geelong, Warrnambool and Melbourne. Its genuinely institution-operated programmable footprint is small, real, and entirely in identity federation. Deakin self-publishes a complete SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth for a Shibboleth identity provider it runs on its own APNIC address space (128.184.0.0/16, netname DEAKINUNIVERSITY) under a Deakin-procured DigiCert certificate, and it registers that IdP plus three production service providers — the Deakin Data Portal, Envirocare and OT Simulations — in the Australian Access Federation. That metadata document is the only institution-operated machine-readable contract in this profile, and it is what earns Deakin its SAML and Shibboleth conformance. Deakin is also the registrant behind 4,597 DataCite DOIs (prefix 10.26187, repository ARDCX.DEAKIN under ARDC) and 1,303 Crossref deposits (member 8935, prefix 10.21153). Everything else that looks like a Deakin API belongs to a platform Deakin buys: Deakin Research Online is figshare (dro.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com), CloudDeakin is D2L Brightspace (d2l.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs to deakin.brightspace.com, and its keyless Valence version manifest is the only JSON API answering on any deakin.edu.au host), library discovery resolves into Ex Libris address space, and the federated SSO endpoints registered with AAF sit on AAF's managed Rapid IdP on Amazon infrastructure. Those are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Deakin contracts. There is no central developer portal, no institution-operated OAI-PMH endpoint, and no public course or campus API. The wider deakin.edu.au web estate — www, blogs, the Data Portal, the handbook — sits behind F5/Shape bot protection that answers automated clients with a JavaScript challenge, so it is not machine-readable at all.
Deakin University publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Australia.
Deakin University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 15 more developer resources.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Education & Research regime, so
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for
this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
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Deakin's Shibboleth identity provider, self-hosted and self-described. The EntityDescriptor at https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth declares protocol support for SAML 2.0...
The federation-registered deployment of the same entityID. In the AAF production aggregate, https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth carries SingleSignOnService locations on ...
Deakin's research data portal, used to share datasets and collected materials with the Australian research community. Institution-operated: dataportal.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs to aa...
Deakin Research Online is Deakin's institutional research repository, running on figshare. dro.deakin.edu.au is a CNAME to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com and returns HTTP 202 with a z...
Deakin's learning management system. d2l.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs to deakin.brightspace.com on AWS ap-southeast-2. Its keyless D2L Valence version manifest at /d2l/api/versions/ ans...
Library discovery for Deakin. library.deakin.edu.au resolves to 216.147.221.162, which whois attributes to Ex Libris (USA) Inc. (netname EXLIBRIS-20-1) — a vendor platform under...
Deakin's own DataCite repository account, held under the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) consortium since 2020-05-14, with DOI prefix 10.26187. 4,597 DOIs are registered...
Deakin is a Crossref member depositing its own DOIs under prefix 10.21153 — 1,303 works, predominantly journal articles from its scholarly publishing. Publicly queryable through...
aid: deakin
name: Deakin University
description: 'Deakin University is a public research university in Victoria, Australia, with campuses in Geelong, Warrnambool
and Melbourne. Its genuinely institution-operated programmable footprint is small, real, and entirely in identity federation.
Deakin self-publishes a complete SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth for a Shibboleth identity
provider it runs on its own APNIC address space (128.184.0.0/16, netname DEAKINUNIVERSITY) under a Deakin-procured DigiCert
certificate, and it registers that IdP plus three production service providers — the Deakin Data Portal, Envirocare and
OT Simulations — in the Australian Access Federation. That metadata document is the only institution-operated machine-readable
contract in this profile, and it is what earns Deakin its SAML and Shibboleth conformance. Deakin is also the registrant
behind 4,597 DataCite DOIs (prefix 10.26187, repository ARDCX.DEAKIN under ARDC) and 1,303 Crossref deposits (member 8935,
prefix 10.21153). Everything else that looks like a Deakin API belongs to a platform Deakin buys: Deakin Research Online
is figshare (dro.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com), CloudDeakin is D2L Brightspace (d2l.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs
to deakin.brightspace.com, and its keyless Valence version manifest is the only JSON API answering on any deakin.edu.au
host), library discovery resolves into Ex Libris address space, and the federated SSO endpoints registered with AAF sit
on AAF''s managed Rapid IdP on Amazon infrastructure. Those are recorded here as tenant relationships, not as Deakin contracts.
There is no central developer portal, no institution-operated OAI-PMH endpoint, and no public course or campus API. The
wider deakin.edu.au web estate — www, blogs, the Data Portal, the handbook — sits behind F5/Shape bot protection that answers
automated clients with a JavaScript challenge, so it is not machine-readable at all.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · no first-party callable API product
confidence: medium
source:
- identity-federation
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: institutional
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Free · Institutional affiliation or federation membership required
confidence: high
source:
- identity-federation
- plans
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/deakin.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/deakin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Australia
- Victoria
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- Learning Management
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: no_public_api
detail: 'Deakin publishes no public developer API, no developer portal and no OpenAPI, and this profile says so rather than
padding it. What it does operate was confirmed by IP ownership and certificate procurement rather than by hostname: signon.deakin.edu.au
serves a complete SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor (HTTP 200, application/xml, 4,826 bytes) from 128.184.0.0/16, which APNIC
attributes to DEAKINUNIVERSITY, on a certificate issued to O=Deakin University. That document is saved here. The Deakin
Data Portal is a second institution-operated surface on the same address space, registered in AAF as a Shibboleth SP,
but it returns an F5/Shape JavaScript challenge body on every path — as do www.deakin.edu.au (HTTP 403), blogs.deakin.edu.au
(HTTP 200 with a challenge body, including /wp-json/ and /feed/), handbook.deakin.edu.au and research.deakin.edu.au —
so no contract could be read from any of them.
This profile is a correction. The June 2026 run attributed eleven APIs and 53 derived artifacts to Deakin that were one
figshare contract: every OpenAPI carried info.title "Figshare …", contact "Figshare Support" and servers https://api.figshare.com/v2,
and the same document is shipped by eleven other institutions in this cohort. All 53 files were removed on 2026-08-30
and the figshare relationship is recorded as a tenant surface instead. Expect the score to fall; that is the correction
working.'
apis:
- aid: deakin:saml-idp
name: Deakin University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
description: Deakin's Shibboleth identity provider, self-hosted and self-described. The EntityDescriptor at https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
declares protocol support for SAML 2.0, a signing and an encryption key, a shibmd:Scope of deakin.edu.au, three SingleSignOnService
bindings (HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect) and two SingleLogoutService bindings, all located on signon.deakin.edu.au.
The host CNAMEs to shib-idp5-shib-2024061000-prod.aa-global.deakin.edu.au and resolves into 128.184.0.0/16 (APNIC netname
DEAKINUNIVERSITY) under a Deakin-procured DigiCert wildcard certificate. This is the only institution-operated machine-readable
contract found anywhere in Deakin's public footprint.
humanURL: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/
baseURL: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: Metadata
url: identity-federation/deakin-idp-saml-metadata.xml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/deakin-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
url: identity-federation/deakin-identity-federation.yml
- aid: deakin:aaf-federated-idp
name: Deakin University federated SSO (AAF Rapid IdP)
description: The federation-registered deployment of the same entityID. In the AAF production aggregate, https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
carries SingleSignOnService locations on aaf.deakin.edu.au, which CNAMEs to ec9a7f24c761e9b79a6c8c40560c805e.idp-cname.aaf.edu.au
and resolves to Amazon address space (AT-88-Z) on an Amazon-issued certificate — AAF's fully managed Rapid IdP. Registered
2025-11-09, carrying REFEDS Research & Scholarship, REFEDS Code of Conduct v2, the GEANT Data Protection Code of Conduct
and REFEDS Sirtfi assurance. The identity data and attribute release are Deakin's; the infrastructure and the metadata-serving
endpoint are AAF's, so this is recorded as a tenant relationship and not as a second Deakin contract.
humanURL: https://aaf.edu.au/subscribers/rapididp/
baseURL: https://aaf.deakin.edu.au/idp/
x-operator: tenant
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- AAF
- Managed Service
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- type: Documentation
url: identity-federation/deakin-identity-federation.yml
- aid: deakin:dataportal
name: Deakin Data Portal
description: 'Deakin''s research data portal, used to share datasets and collected materials with the Australian research
community. Institution-operated: dataportal.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs to aafapp-p7-web-2020013100-prod.aa-global.deakin.edu.au
inside Deakin''s own 128.184.0.0/16, and it is registered in the AAF aggregate as the Shibboleth service provider https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/shibboleth
("Deakin Data Portal", organization Deakin University). Deakin''s GitHub organization carries forks of ReDBox, Mint and
The Fascinator, which is the research-data-management stack this class of portal is normally built on. No contract could
be read from it: every path, including /api, /mint/ and /redbox/, returns an F5/Shape JavaScript challenge page rather
than content, so no OAI-PMH or REST surface is claimed here.'
humanURL: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
baseURL: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Research Data
- Open Data
- Repository
- Identity Federation
properties:
- type: OpenData
url: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- aid: deakin:dro-figshare
name: Deakin Research Online (DRO) — figshare tenant
description: Deakin Research Online is Deakin's institutional research repository, running on figshare. dro.deakin.edu.au
is a CNAME to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com and returns HTTP 202 with a zero-byte body to automated clients. The data, the
DOIs and the collection policy are Deakin's; the contract is figshare's and is deliberately NOT saved in this repository
— the June 2026 profile saved it as eleven Deakin APIs, and all of it was removed on 2026-08-30. figshare's own generic
OAI-PMH and REST v2 endpoints live on api.figshare.com and belong to figshare's profile.
humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
baseURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
x-operator: tenant
tags:
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- Figshare
tags_raw:
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- figshare
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- aid: deakin:clouddeakin
name: CloudDeakin — D2L Brightspace tenant
description: Deakin's learning management system. d2l.deakin.edu.au CNAMEs to deakin.brightspace.com on AWS ap-southeast-2.
Its keyless D2L Valence version manifest at /d2l/api/versions/ answers HTTP 200 with application/json (2,400 bytes) listing
fifteen product codes including lti, le, lp, ep and campusLife — the only JSON API contract that responds to an automated
client on any deakin.edu.au hostname. It is D2L's contract on Deakin's tenant, so it is recorded as a tenant surface and
the specification is not saved here.
humanURL: https://d2l.deakin.edu.au/
baseURL: https://d2l.deakin.edu.au/d2l/api/
x-operator: tenant
tags:
- Learning Management
- LTI
- Brightspace
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://d2l.deakin.edu.au/d2l/api/versions/
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/
- aid: deakin:library-discovery
name: Deakin University Library catalogue — Ex Libris tenant
description: Library discovery for Deakin. library.deakin.edu.au resolves to 216.147.221.162, which whois attributes to
Ex Libris (USA) Inc. (netname EXLIBRIS-20-1) — a vendor platform under a Deakin hostname. The host did not answer our
probes (connection timeout after 30s from this vantage point), so nothing about its interface is claimed; the library's
own pages sit on www.deakin.edu.au behind bot protection.
humanURL: https://www.deakin.edu.au/library
baseURL: https://library.deakin.edu.au/
x-operator: tenant
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Ex Libris
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/library
- aid: deakin:datacite-repository
name: Deakin University DataCite repository (ARDCX.DEAKIN)
description: Deakin's own DataCite repository account, held under the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) consortium
since 2020-05-14, with DOI prefix 10.26187. 4,597 DOIs are registered against it and 4,596 carry publisher "Deakin University";
the suffix pattern (deakin.33365271) shows they are minted through the figshare tenant. The registrations and their DataCite-schema
metadata are Deakin's and are publicly queryable, but the API is DataCite's, so this is a tenant surface.
humanURL: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/ardcx.deakin
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/
x-operator: tenant
tags:
- DataCite
- DOI
- Research Data
- Persistent Identifiers
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/ardcx.deakin
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/deakin-conformance.yml
- aid: deakin:crossref-member
name: Deakin University Crossref membership (member 8935)
description: Deakin is a Crossref member depositing its own DOIs under prefix 10.21153 — 1,303 works, predominantly journal
articles from its scholarly publishing. Publicly queryable through the Crossref REST API. The deposits are Deakin's; the
contract is Crossref's.
humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/
x-operator: tenant
tags:
- Crossref
- DOI
- Scholarly Publishing
- Persistent Identifiers
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://api.crossref.org/members/8935
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/deakin-conformance.yml
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: identity-federation/deakin-identity-federation.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/deakin-conformance.yml
- type: OpenData
url: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/library
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/study/find-a-course
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/why-deakin/generative-artificial-intelligence
- type: AITooling
url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/study-support/study-resources/artificial-intelligence
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/Deakin
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/deakin-university/
- type: Blog
url: https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/deakin-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/deakin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/deakin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/deakin-finops.yml
- type: Review
url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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