# UBC Shibboleth Identity Provider Metadata

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ubc/shibboleth-idp/  
**Provider:** University of British Columbia — https://apis.io/providers/ubc/  
**Base URL:** https://authentication.ubc.ca  
**Documentation:** https://it.ubc.ca/services

UBC Shibboleth Identity Provider Metadata is one of 7 APIs that [University of British Columbia](https://apis.io/providers/ubc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

UBC's own SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata, entityID https://authentication.ubc.ca, asserting the ubc.ca scope. Institution-operated by definition — no vendor can publish this on UBC's behalf — and it is the only machine-readable artifact UBC's central IT serves to the open internet. Verified live 2026-08-19: 9,213 bytes of application/xml headed "(c) The University of British Columbia / Identity Provider", supporting SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and the Shibboleth 1.0 protocol.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://authentication.ubc.ca/idp/shibboleth
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ubc/refs/heads/main/authentication/ubc-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ubc/refs/heads/main/conformance/ubc-domain-standards-conformance.yml

## Other University of British Columbia APIs (6)

- [UBC Library Open Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/open-collections/)
- [UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/open-collections-iiif/)
- [UBC Library Abacus Dataverse API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/abacus-dataverse/)
- [Abacus OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/abacus-oai-pmh/)
- [UBC Integration Enablement Centre API Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/iec-api-gateway/)
- [UBC IT Service Status API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/it-status/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, Single Sign-On

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