# InCommon Identity Federation — University of Minnesota Shibboleth IdP

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/incommon-identity-federation/  
**Provider:** University of Minnesota — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-minnesota/  
**Base URL:** https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aumn.edu  
**Documentation:** https://incommon.org

InCommon Identity Federation — University of Minnesota Shibboleth IdP is one of 10 APIs that [University of Minnesota](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-minnesota/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, InCommon, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and sample payloads.

The University operates its own Shibboleth identity provider and publishes it through the InCommon federation as entityID urn:mace:incommon:umn.edu, with shibmd:Scope umn.edu and SAML 2.0 single sign-on endpoints at login.umn.edu. The metadata host is shared because a federation is shared by definition; the identity provider behind it is entirely the institution's, and it is the machine-readable surface the largest number of University systems actually depend on.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **APIReference** — https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aumn.edu
- **Example** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-minnesota/refs/heads/main/examples/incommon-umn-idp-metadata.xml

## Other University of Minnesota APIs (9)

- [GEMS Informatics Exchange APIs](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/gems-exchange-apis/)
- [Common Good APIs](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/common-good-apis/)
- [UMedia Digital Collections JSON API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/umedia-digital-collections/)
- [UMN Digital Conservancy — OAI-PMH and DSpace REST](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/digital-conservancy-oai-pmh/)
- [DataCite membership — University of Minnesota](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref membership — University of Minnesota](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR registration — University of Minnesota](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/ror-registration/)
- [Boomi API Developer Portal (UMN tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/boomi-api-developer-portal/)
- [UMedia IIIF image delivery (OCLC CONTENTdm tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-minnesota/contentdm-iiif/)

## 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/university-of-minnesota/incommon-identity-federation/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/university-of-minnesota/.