# UMD Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** University of Maryland College Park — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-maryland-college-park/  
**Base URL:** https://shib.idm.umd.edu/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://login.umd.edu

UMD Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata is one of 16 APIs that [University of Maryland College Park](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-maryland-college-park/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, InCommon, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

The university's own Shibboleth identity provider, publishing a SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor as InCommon entity urn:mace:incommon:umd.edu with scope umd.edu, the InCommon and REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity categories, and REFEDS SIRTFI assurance certification. It is a browser-SSO identity provider for people rather than an authorization server for API clients: it issues no tokens to third parties. It is nonetheless institution-operated by definition, machine-readable, and the single most consequential programmable contract UMD publishes.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **APIReference** — https://shib.idm.umd.edu/idp/shibboleth
- **Documentation** — https://login.umd.edu
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-maryland-college-park/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-maryland-college-park-conformance.yml

## Other University of Maryland College Park APIs (12)

- [UMD Libraries Website Tools API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/libraries-website-tools/)
- [UMD Libraries Digital Collections OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/digital-collections-oai/)
- [UMD Libraries Audio/Video Collections OAI-PMH and OpenSearch](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/av-collections-oai/)
- [UMD Archival Collections OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/archival-collections-oai/)
- [UMD Libraries IIIF Services](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/iiif-services/)
- [UMD Enterprise GIS — ArcGIS REST Services](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/enterprise-gis/)
- [DRUM — Digital Repository at the University of Maryland](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/drum/)
- [Testudo Schedule of Classes](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/testudo-soc/)
- [umd.io — student-run University of Maryland data API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/umd-io/)
- [UMD Discover — library discovery layer](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/umd-discover/)
- [UMD Web Archives on Archive-It](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/archive-it/)
- [UMD Collection on the Internet Archive](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-maryland-college-park/internet-archive/)

## Tags

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

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