eduPersonScopedAffiliation

Subject’s role at their home organisation — see also eduPersonAffiliation.

Multi-valued, scoped, controlled vocabulary in the form affiliation@scope.

The affiliation on the left-hand side of the literal @ is described by nouns from a controlled vocabulary. See eduPersonAffiliation for the available nouns.

The scope portion on the right-hand side of the @ scopes how the affiliation noun should be interpreted. It must match one of the <shibmd:Scope> elements in the identity provider’s metadata. Multiple <shibmd:Scope> elements may be required if sub-institutional scopes are used. Note that scopes are case sensitive.

eduPersonScopedAffiliation allows more granular affiliation information than can be provided with eduPersonAffiliation, and is preferred for this reason. eduPersonAffiliation describes the principal’s relationship to an entire institution; eduPersonScopedAffiliation can describe a relationship to the institution, and also to a particular faculty, school, or division.

• eduPerson
• ePSA usage comparison
• IdP Requirements
• HEMIS Data Elements

• member@example.ac.za
• employee@example.ac.za
• student@edu.faculty.example.ac.za
• faculty@science.faculty.example.ac.za

The semantics of various affiliation nouns are described in detail in the eduPersonAffiliation notes.

eduPersonScopedAffiliation is fairly widely shared and not generally considered personally identifying information. For this reason care must be taken to ensure that the affiliation information asserted via this attribute is not too granular: faculty level information is appropriate but departmental level has the potential to inadvertently leak personal information.

When using sub-instititional scopes (e.g. faculty), care must be taken to also include appropriate institutional scopes as well. For example, a member of a specific faculty is typically also a member of the institution itself. However, a member of a research unit might only be an affiliate of the institution that houses it. Leaving out institutional scopes entirely suggests no relationship with the parent institution.

SAFIRE discontinued the automatic generation of eduPersonScopedAffiliation from eduPersonAffiliation from 1 November 2021.