specification: API Evangelist Conformance specificationVersion: '0.1' provider: University of Birmingham providerId: university-of-birmingham generated: '2026-08-30' method: probed authorship: generated by API Evangelist from live probes; not authored by the institution. source: live HTTP probes of birmingham.ac.uk and bham.ac.uk hosts, the UK Access Management Federation metadata aggregate, and the DataCite REST API, on 2026-08-30 regime: education description: >- Domain-standard conformance for the University of Birmingham against the Kin Score `education` regime, established by probing live endpoints rather than by reading a prose claim. Each hit names the exact location that returned the evidence, the operator of the endpoint, and the HTTP status observed on 2026-08-30. Standards in the regime that were probed and NOT found are recorded under `absent` so the gaps are legible and are never mistaken for unchecked. Conformance is claimed for the institution only where the institution operates the endpoint; where a standard is implemented by a vendor platform Birmingham is a tenant on, that is said plainly and is not claimed. standards: - standard: oai-pmh status: conformant x-operator: institution detail: >- Three EPrints repositories on the University's own bham.ac.uk hosts expose OAI-PMH 2.0 providers, all answering unauthenticated. UBIRA eData (research data) returns repositoryName "UBIRA eData", protocolVersion 2.0 and adminEmail research-data@contacts.bham.ac.uk, and ListMetadataFormats offers oai_dc, didl and rdf. UBIRA ETheses returns adminEmail ubira@lists.bham.ac.uk and earliestDatestamp 2019-01-17T14:07:29Z. ePapers Repository returns the same adminEmail and earliestDatestamp 2012-12-07T12:28:00Z. edata.bham.ac.uk resolves to 147.188.217.239, University of Birmingham address space. evidence: - url: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify status: 200 note: 'text/xml — repositoryName "UBIRA eData", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail research-data@contacts.bham.ac.uk' - url: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=ListMetadataFormats status: 200 note: 'metadataPrefix didl, oai_dc, rdf' - url: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify status: 200 note: 'repositoryName "UBIRA ETheses", earliestDatestamp 2019-01-17T14:07:29Z' - url: https://epapers.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify status: 200 note: 'repositoryName "ePapers Repository", earliestDatestamp 2012-12-07T12:28:00Z' caveat: >- The three repositories each advertise an http:// baseURL for themselves in their Identify response (for example http://edata.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2) while serving over https. Harvesters that trust the advertised baseURL will be redirected; this is reported as a defect, not as a conformance failure. - standard: saml status: conformant x-operator: institution detail: >- The University operates its own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. The entity descriptor is served directly by IT Services at idp2.bham.ac.uk and carries their own build/maintenance history in XML comments. It declares SingleSignOnService endpoints for urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and HTTP-POST-SimpleSign, an AttributeService over SOAP, ArtifactResolutionService for SAML 1.0 and 2.0, and SingleLogoutService over four bindings. entityID is https://idp.bham.ac.uk/shibboleth. evidence: - url: https://idp2.bham.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth status: 200 note: 'application/xml, 14,929 bytes — SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor, entityID https://idp.bham.ac.uk/shibboleth, IDPSSODescriptor present' - standard: shibboleth status: conformant x-operator: institution detail: >- The IdP is a Shibboleth deployment (Shibboleth IdP v3, per the metadata's own upgrade notes) registered in the UK Access Management Federation. Its entry in the federation aggregate carries OrganizationName and mdui:DisplayName "University of Birmingham" and shibmd:Scope bham.ac.uk, and the aggregate also holds a development IdP, https://idpdev.bham.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth. The Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest profile (urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0:profiles:AuthnRequest) is declared alongside the SAML 2 bindings. evidence: - url: http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml status: 200 note: '87.9 MB aggregate; contains entityID https://idp.bham.ac.uk/shibboleth with OrganizationName "University of Birmingham" and shibmd:Scope bham.ac.uk' - url: https://idp2.bham.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth status: 200 note: 'declares urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0:profiles:AuthnRequest at /idp/profile/Shibboleth/SSO' - standard: datacite status: conformant x-operator: institution detail: >- UBIRA eData mints DOIs under the DOI prefix 10.25500, which the DataCite REST API resolves to the DataCite repository client `bl.bham`, named "University of Birmingham - eData", registered in 2017 through the British Library consortium. Records harvested from the eData OAI-PMH provider carry doi.org/10.25500/... identifiers. The prefix and the repository client are the institution's. evidence: - url: https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.25500 status: 200 note: 'relationships.clients -> bl.bham' - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.bham status: 200 note: 'name "University of Birmingham - eData", year 2017' - url: 'https://edata.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc' status: 200 note: 'records carry https://doi.org/10.25500/... identifiers' absent: - standard: scim detail: No SCIM endpoint was found on any birmingham.ac.uk or bham.ac.uk host. Identity provisioning is not publicly exposed. - standard: lti detail: >- canvas.bham.ac.uk is a live Instructure Canvas tenancy (CNAME birmingham-vanity.instructure.com) and Canvas is an LTI platform, but that is Instructure's implementation running under a Birmingham vanity hostname, and no LTI platform configuration is publicly readable. Not claimed for the institution. evidence: - url: https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/ status: 200 note: 'Instructure Canvas tenancy — vendor implementation, tenant relationship only' - standard: oneroster detail: Not found. - standard: ed-fi detail: Not found. Ed-Fi is a US K-12 standard and is out of scope for a UK university. - standard: caliper detail: Not found. - standard: qti detail: Not found. - standard: orcid detail: >- Birmingham author records carry ORCID iDs inside the Elsevier Pure portal at research.birmingham.ac.uk, but that is Pure's ORCID integration on Elsevier's platform, not a Birmingham-operated ORCID client. The EPrints repositories do not expose an ORCID interface. Not claimed for the institution. - standard: crossref detail: >- No Birmingham-operated Crossref member endpoint or deposit interface was found. Journal DOIs appearing in repository records are minted by publishers, not by the University. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com