---
name: London School of Economics and Political Science — surface lifecycle posture
description: >-
  Versioning, deprecation and change-communication posture across LSE's programmable
  surfaces. LSE publishes no versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no changelog
  and no status page for any interface it operates. What is recorded below is the
  version information the software itself discloses, plus the absences, stated plainly.
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
source: live HTTP probes, 2026-08-19
lifecycle:
  versioning_policy: none_published
  deprecation_policy: none_published
  changelog: none_published
  status_page: none_found
  sunset_headers: not_observed
  notes: >-
    No developer portal, no API terms, no support channel dedicated to programmatic
    consumers. The only contact routes found are role mailboxes —
    lti.support@lse.ac.uk (LTI), lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk (repository) and
    library.enquiries@lse.ac.uk (IIIF at scale).
  surfaces:
    - surface: LSE Moodle LTI 1.3 platform
      x-operator: institution
      version_disclosed: >-
        None. LTI version is fixed by the standard (1.3); the Moodle release is not
        exposed on the public endpoints.
      contact: lti.support@lse.ac.uk
      deprecation_signal: none
    - surface: LSE Shibboleth IdP
      x-operator: institution
      version_disclosed: None in metadata.
      federation_lifecycle: >-
        Governed by UK Access Management Federation registration; entity changes
        propagate through the federation metadata aggregate rather than an LSE
        changelog.
      deprecation_signal: >-
        A non-production entity is still registered in UKAMF and self-labels
        "Test IdP - DO NOT USE" (https://idp.lse.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth). The host does
        not resolve. Stale federation registration is the closest thing to a
        deprecation signal LSE emits, and it is unmanaged.
    - surface: LSE Research Online (EPrints)
      x-operator: tenant
      version_disclosed: EPrints 3.4.6 (self-reported in the OAI-PMH Identify response).
      deleted_record_policy: persistent
      granularity: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
      earliest_datestamp: '2010-10-01T08:40:47Z'
      note: >-
        deletedRecord=persistent is a real lifecycle guarantee to harvesters — deletes
        are tombstoned, not vanished — and it is the strongest lifecycle signal in
        LSE's entire footprint. It is EPrints' default behaviour, not an LSE policy
        decision.
    - surface: LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE)
      x-operator: tenant
      version_disclosed: None. Lifecycle follows Ex Libris' release train.
    - surface: LSE Digital Library (Quartex)
      x-operator: tenant
      version_disclosed: None. Lifecycle follows Quartex releases.