generated: '2026-08-30' method: probed source: live probes of wiredspace.wits.ac.za, idp.wits.ac.za, metadata.safire.ac.za, api.datacite.org provider: University of the Witwatersrand providerId: university-of-the-witwatersrand regime: education description: >- Domain-standard conformance for the University of the Witwatersrand, measured against the Kin Score `education` regime standards list (scim, lti, oneroster, ed-fi, caliper, qti, oai-pmh, shibboleth, saml, orcid, datacite, crossref). Every entry below is a probe, not a prose claim, and each carries the operator of the surface it was measured on. Nothing here is asserted from documentation alone. conformance: - standard: oai-pmh version: '2.0' status: conformant x-operator: institution surface: WIReDSpace OAI-PMH interface location: openapi/university-of-the-witwatersrand-request-api-openapi.yml endpoint: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/oai/request detail: >- Full OAI-PMH 2.0 verb set answered anonymously on a host under the university's own registrable domain. Identify returns repositoryName "WIReDSpace", repositoryIdentifier wiredspace.wits.ac.za, adminEmail openscholarship.library@wits.ac.za, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. Thirteen metadata prefixes are advertised: oai_dc, qdc, dim, mets, mods, ore, didl, rdf, marc, etdms, rioxx, uketd_dc, xoai. Sets are community-scoped under the 10539 Handle prefix (com_10539_*). evidence: - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/oai/request?verb=Identify status: 200 note: protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName WIReDSpace - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats status: 200 note: 13 metadata prefixes - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/oai/request?verb=ListSets status: 200 note: community sets keyed to Handle prefix 10539 - standard: saml version: '2.0' status: conformant x-operator: institution surface: Wits identity provider (SAFIRE / eduGAIN) location: https://idp.wits.ac.za/safss/saml2/idp/metadata.php endpoint: https://idp.wits.ac.za/safss/saml2/idp/metadata.php detail: >- The university operates its own SAML 2.0 identity provider on its own domain and serves signed IdP metadata as application/samlmetadata+xml. entityID https://idp.wits.ac.za/safss/saml2/idp/metadata.php, IDPSSODescriptor with protocolSupportEnumeration urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol. This is the single clearest institution-operated machine-readable surface Wits publishes after WIReDSpace, and it is not catalogued anywhere as an API. evidence: - url: https://idp.wits.ac.za/safss/saml2/idp/metadata.php status: 200 note: 7,670 bytes, content-type application/samlmetadata+xml - standard: shibboleth status: partial x-operator: institution surface: Wits IdP entity in the SAFIRE federation aggregate location: https://metadata.safire.ac.za/safire-prod-idp.xml detail: >- The Wits entity carries the Shibboleth metadata extension schema (urn:mace:shibboleth:metadata:1.0) with shibmd:Scope values wits.ac.za and students.wits.ac.za, and is registered by SAFIRE (registrationAuthority https://safire.ac.za, registry-id 000021, schacHomeOrganization wits.ac.za, schacHomeOrganizationType urn:schac:homeOrganizationType:int:university) with publish-to-edugain true and the REFEDS Research and Scholarship plus Anonymous entity categories. Marked `partial` and not `conformant` because the deployed IdP software is SimpleSAMLphp (path /safss/) rather than Shibboleth IdP — the metadata profile is Shibboleth's, the implementation is not. evidence: - url: https://metadata.safire.ac.za/safire-prod-idp.xml status: 200 note: 344,988 bytes, 37 entities, one of them Wits - standard: datacite status: conformant x-operator: tenant surface: Wits Open Data Vault (Figshare tenant) location: https://wits.figshare.com/ detail: >- Wits is a registered DataCite repository client, id `wits.figshare`, name "University of Witwatersrand". DOI minting for research data therefore happens under the university's own DataCite membership — a real institutional fact — but through the Figshare platform it contracted, which is why this entry is operator `tenant` and not `institution`. WIReDSpace itself mints Handle identifiers under the 10539 prefix, not DOIs. evidence: - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=witwatersrand status: 200 note: 'total 1: client id wits.figshare' - standard: orcid status: not-found detail: >- The WIReDSpace DSpace 9.2 root document advertises 80 endpoint links and none of them is an ORCID integration surface. No institution-operated ORCID member API or public researcher-identifier endpoint was found. evidence: - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api status: 200 note: 80 _links, no orcid entry - standard: crossref status: not-found detail: No institution-operated Crossref deposit or query surface found; Wits registers DOIs via DataCite. - standard: scim status: not-found detail: No public SCIM provisioning endpoint. Identity provisioning is behind institutional SSO. - standard: lti status: not-found detail: >- No publicly documented LTI tool or platform registration surface. Wits runs a Sakai-family LMS behind authentication; nothing machine-readable is exposed anonymously. - standard: oneroster status: not-found detail: No OneRoster endpoint found. - standard: ed-fi status: not-found detail: Ed-Fi is a US K-12 data standard; not applicable to a South African university and not found. - standard: caliper status: not-found detail: No Caliper analytics endpoint found. - standard: qti status: not-found detail: No QTI assessment interchange surface found. observed_beyond_regime: - standard: opensearch status: conformant x-operator: institution detail: >- WIReDSpace serves an OpenSearch 1.1 description document, giving the repository a second standards-based query surface alongside OAI-PMH. evidence: - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/opensearch/service status: 200 - standard: handle-system status: conformant x-operator: institution detail: >- Every WIReDSpace object carries a Handle under the 10539 prefix (sample identifier oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1234), resolvable through hdl.handle.net. evidence: - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/oai/request?verb=Identify status: 200 note: oai-identifier sampleIdentifier oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1234 - standard: coar-notify status: auth-gated x-operator: institution detail: >- The DSpace deployment advertises COAR Notify / LDN endpoints (ldnservices, notifyrequests, submissioncoarnotifyconfigs) in its root document, but both return 401 to an anonymous caller, so whether any inbox is configured cannot be read from outside. evidence: - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/ldn/ldnservices status: 401 - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/config/submissioncoarnotifyconfigs status: 401 - standard: sitemaps status: conformant x-operator: institution detail: WIReDSpace publishes a sitemap index for the repository. evidence: - url: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/sitemap_index.xml status: 200 maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com