# InCommon Federation IdP Metadata

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/incommon-idp-metadata/  
**Provider:** Ohio State University — https://apis.io/providers/ohio-state-university/  
**Base URL:** https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aosu.edu  
**Documentation:** https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/spaces/MDQ/overview

InCommon Federation IdP Metadata is one of 11 APIs that [Ohio State University](https://apis.io/providers/ohio-state-university/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, InCommon, SAML, Shibboleth, and Metadata.

Ohio State's SAML 2.0 Identity Provider as published in the InCommon Federation metadata aggregate, retrievable per-entity over the InCommon MDQ service. The signed EntityDescriptor carries OrganizationName "The Ohio State University", the REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity category, SIRTFI assurance certification, InCommon's Registered-By-InCommon category, and the SSO/SLO/ECP endpoints on webauth.service.ohio-state.edu. Verified live 2026-09-01, application/samlmetadata+xml, 9537 bytes.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ohio-state-university/refs/heads/main/conformance/ohio-state-university-conformance.yml

## Other Ohio State University APIs (10)

- [Ohio State Mobile Content API v2](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/mobile-content-api/)
- [CHRR Open Data Portal (CKAN)](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/chrr-ckan/)
- [Web Single Sign-On (Shibboleth Identity Provider)](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/websso/)
- [Knowledge Bank DSpace REST API](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/kb-rest/)
- [Knowledge Bank OAI-PMH Interface](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/kb-oai/)
- [Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/primo-discovery/)
- [Canvas LMS Tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/canvas-lms/)
- [DataCite Membership (GVUZ)](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref Membership (member 7412)](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR Registration](https://apis.io/apis/ohio-state-university/ror/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, InCommon, SAML, Shibboleth, Metadata

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