# Boston University Shibboleth Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/boston/shibboleth-identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Boston University — https://apis.io/providers/boston/  
**Base URL:** https://shib.bu.edu/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://met.refeds.org/met/entity/https%3A%2F%2Fshib.bu.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth/

Boston University Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of 6 APIs that [Boston University](https://apis.io/providers/boston/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, InCommon, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Boston University's SAML 2.0 identity provider, publishing machine-readable entity metadata at its own host. The EntityDescriptor carries entityID https://shib.bu.edu/idp/shibboleth, the Shibboleth scopes bu.edu and alum.bu.edu, and SingleSignOnService bindings for HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and HTTP-Redirect. The entity is registered by InCommon and exported to eduGAIN, the SWAMID Federation and the UK Access Management Federation, and asserts the REFEDS Research & Scholarship, SIRTFI and InCommon Research & Scholarship entity categories. This is institution-operated by definition and is the cleanest example in this profile of Boston University publishing a machine-readable contract of its own.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Metadata** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boston/refs/heads/main/conformance/boston-shibboleth-idp-metadata.xml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boston/refs/heads/main/conformance/boston-conformance.yml
- **Documentation** — https://met.refeds.org/met/entity/https%3A%2F%2Fshib.bu.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth/

## Other Boston University APIs (5)

- [Boston University WordPress REST API](https://apis.io/apis/boston/wordpress-rest-api/)
- [OpenBU Repository — OAI-PMH and DSpace REST (Atmire-operated)](https://apis.io/apis/boston/openbu-oai/)
- [BU Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)](https://apis.io/apis/boston/primo-discovery/)
- [Blackboard Learn REST API (BU tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/boston/blackboard-learn/)
- [AI API Access (Azure OpenAI / Amazon Bedrock)](https://apis.io/apis/boston/ai-api-access/)

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/boston/shibboleth-identity-federation/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/boston/.