# Harvard University Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/harvard/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Harvard University — https://apis.io/providers/harvard/  
**Base URL:** https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/https%3A%2F%2Ffed.huit.harvard.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://incommon.org/federation/

Harvard University Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon) is one of 14 APIs that [Harvard University](https://apis.io/providers/harvard/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, InCommon, and Single Sign-On.

Harvard's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://fed.huit.harvard.edu/idp/shibboleth, registered in the InCommon federation and reachable as signed machine-readable metadata through the InCommon metadata query service. The entity carries REFEDS SIRTFI assurance certification and the REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity category; OrganizationName is "Harvard College" and mdui:DisplayName is "Harvard University". This is the authentication authority behind HarvardKey and therefore behind every gated Harvard API, and it is institution-operated by definition - a federation IdP cannot be outsourced without changing the entityID. Almost never catalogued for any institution; it is the most unambiguously Harvard-owned machine-readable artifact in this profile.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/harvard/refs/heads/main/examples/harvard-incommon-idp-metadata.xml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/harvard/refs/heads/main/conformance/harvard-education-domain-standards.yml

## Other Harvard University APIs (12)

- [Harvard Dataverse API](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dataverse/)
- [Harvard Dataverse OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dataverse-oai/)
- [Harvard Library LibraryCloud API (Open Metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/librarycloud/)
- [Harvard Art Museums API](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/art-museums/)
- [Legal Ed Skills Hub (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/lil-lawskills/)
- [Caselaw Access Project bulk data (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/caselaw-access-project/)
- [Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/perma/)
- [Harvard API Portal (HUIT)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/api-portal/)
- [Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dash/)
- [HOLLIS library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/hollis/)
- [Harvard Figshare tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/figshare/)
- [Canvas LMS tenancy (Instructure)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/canvas/)

## Tags

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

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