On this page you can find detailed information about the CLARIN 'Service Provider Federation' (SPF). For the non-technical perspective, take a look at the list of end-user services available via the SPF and a more general introduction.
Overview
The goal of the SPF is to connect multiple CLARIN Service Providers to several national Identity Federations. This makes password-protected resources (files, web applications) available to academic users from many EU-countries.
To achieve this interconnection, each CLARIN centre signs an agreement, giving the power of attorney to the CLARIN ERIC. The CLARIN can then sign subsequent agreements with the national Identity Federations involved, as to ensure that they give their users access to the CLARIN services. This construction avoids the situation where each CLARIN centre would need to sign an agreement with each Identity Federation.
The currently operational Service Providers are tabulated by the Centre Registry.
Participating Identity Federations
We aim at including all European federations, however CLARIN member countries get the highest priority.
| Country | Federation | Status | Opt-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | ACOnet | Connected (via national federation). | OK (not required) |
| Belgium | Belnet | Connected (via national federation). | OK (not required) |
| Cyprus | CyNet | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| Czech Republic | eduID.cz | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
| Denmark, Iceland | WAYF | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
| Estonia | TAAT | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required, attribute release mandatory) |
| Finland | Haka | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
| France | Fédération Éducation-Recherche | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| Germany | DFN-AAI | Connected (via national federation). | OK (not required) |
| Greece | GRNET Federation | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| Hungary | eduID.hu | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| Italy | IDEM GARR | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
| Latvia | LAIFE | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| Lithuania | LITNET fedi | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| The Netherlands | SURFconext | Connected (via national federation). | Single opt-in required for the CLARIN Service Providers (as a group) |
| Norway | FEIDE | Connected (via eduGAIN). | Opt-in required per Service Provider (letter to IdPs with opt-in request is planned). |
| Poland | PIONIER.Id | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| Portugal | RCTSaai | Connected (via national federation). | OK (not required) |
| Slovenia | ArnesAAI | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| South Africa | SAFIRE | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
| Sweden | SWAMID | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
| Switzerland | SWITCHaai | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
| United Kingdom | UK Federation | Connected (via eduGAIN). | OK (not required) |
An automated overview of attribute release is available here.
The agreement signed by the participating Service Providers is available here.
State of Affairs - Production Service Providers
An overview of production and working preproduction SPs and their status across identity federations is available here.
State of Affairs - Pre-Production (Test) Service Providers
An overview table is available here. Once a Service Provider is in place and has been tested, it will be added to this page.
SAML Metadata
- Metadata about production CLARIN SPF Service Providers (production)
- Metadata about all CLARIN Service Providers (production and preproduction)
- Metadata about all IdPs in participating Identity Federations (production)
- Metadata about the ("homeless") CLARIN IdP (production; can be used to login to preproduction SPs)
The Agreement
See the CE-2014-0330 document.
FAQs
- Why aren't you using eduGAIN?
- How can the Service Provider Federation be extended?
- How is the SP metadata distributed to the national Identity Federations?
- Where do I find the metadata of the national Identity Federations?
- What can users that do not belong to the SPF do to access the services? Is there a CLARIN IdP?
- Is there a central CLARIN Disovery Service (WAYF) that I can use?
- What user attributes are required?
- How is the SPF dealing with personal data? Is my privacy protected?
- How to use (protected) web services in an AAI context?
- How can I see which attributes an Identity Provider releases to my Service Provider?
- How can I debug my IdP-SP connection? What does this error message mean?
- How do I setup a Shibboleth Service Provider for use with CLARIN?
Questions?
If you have any further questions about the SPF, please mail them to spf [at] clarin.eu (spf[at]clarin[dot]eu).
Background Information
- Most recent overview (recommended reading material):
- report D 2.7 on the SPF full extension (CLARIN-PLUS deliverable)
- Older documents: