# ANU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/anu/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Australian National University — https://apis.io/providers/anu/  
**Base URL:** https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://services.anu.edu.au/information-technology

ANU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata) is one of 6 APIs that [Australian National University](https://apis.io/providers/anu/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, AAF, and eduGAIN.

ANU's institutional identity provider, publishing machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL. entityID https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope anu.edu.au, OrganizationDisplayName "Australian National University", with SSO endpoints for HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP bindings plus a SOAP artifact resolution service and an attribute authority. Registered in the Australian Access Federation aggregate (359 entities) alongside two ANU service providers, wattlecourses.anu.edu.au and mdl-stage.anu.edu.au, and interfederated internationally through eduGAIN. This is institution-operated by definition and is the most consequential machine-readable surface ANU runs — it is also the class of surface that is almost never catalogued.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/examples/anu-idp-saml-entity-descriptor-example.xml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/conformance/anu-conformance.yml
- **Federation** — https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml

## Other Australian National University APIs (5)

- [ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN) API](https://apis.io/apis/anu/quantum-numbers/)
- [QRNG@ANU Legacy JSON API](https://apis.io/apis/anu/qrng-legacy/)
- [ANU Open Research OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/anu/openresearch-oai/)
- [ANU Open Research DSpace REST API](https://apis.io/apis/anu/openresearch-rest/)
- [ANU Research Portal Plus (Elsevier Pure) — TENANT](https://apis.io/apis/anu/research-portal-pure/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, AAF, eduGAIN, Single Sign-On

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