General Information
The goal of the SPF is to connect multiple CLARIN Service Providers to several national Identity Federations, to make password-protected resources (files, web applications) available to academic users from many EU countries. Thanks to this federated login, the majority of resources are available to anyone with an academic account from many European countries, see this curated list of protected resources.
To achieve this, 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, 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. See the participating identity federations below.
| Country | Federation | Status | Opt-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | ACOnet | Connected (via national federation). | OK (not required) |
| Belgium | Belnet | Connected (via national federation). | OK (not required) |
| Croatia | AAI@eduHR | Connected (via eduGAIN). | |
| 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) |
Technical Details
For more information on the technical details (relating to metadata, production SPs etc.), see the For Infrastructure Developers section.