# Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/shibboleth-identity-provider/  
**Provider:** University of Melbourne — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-melbourne/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.unimelb.edu.au/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://aaf.edu.au/

Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata is one of 8 APIs that [University of Melbourne](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-melbourne/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, AAF, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

The University's own Shibboleth identity provider, entityID https://idp.unimelb.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, serving public SAML 2.0 metadata at that URL (verified 200 application/xml, 2026-08-19) with an IDPSSODescriptor, scope unimelb.edu.au and OrganizationName "The University of Melbourne". Registered in the Australian Access Federation aggregate at md.aaf.edu.au alongside ten other unimelb.edu.au entities (Mediaflux, DaRIS, the Spartan HPC dashboard, SUDO, UMSU); AAF participates in eduGAIN. Identity federation is institution-operated by definition and is the single most consequential machine-readable surface most universities run — and almost none of them catalogue it.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-melbourne/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-melbourne-idp-saml-metadata-example.xml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-melbourne/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-melbourne-authentication.yml

## Other University of Melbourne APIs (7)

- [Spatial Urban Data Observatory (SUDO) API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/sudo-spatial-urban-data-observatory/)
- [Minerva Access Repository REST API (DSpace 7.6)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/minerva-access-rest/)
- [Minerva Access OAI-PMH 2.0 Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/minerva-access-oai-pmh/)
- [Melbourne Data — Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/melbourne-data-figshare/)
- [Open Spatial Data Portal (Esri ArcGIS Hub tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/spatial-open-data-arcgis-hub/)
- [University SSO — OpenID Connect Discovery (Okta tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/sso-okta/)
- [Internal API Management Programme (Boomi tenancy) — Gated](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/boomi-internal-api-portal/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, AAF, eduGAIN, Authentication

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