# University of Oxford Shibboleth Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/shibboleth-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Oxford — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-oxford/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk/idp  
**Documentation:** https://technical.edugain.org/entities

University of Oxford Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of 10 APIs that [University of Oxford](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-oxford/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, and eduGAIN.

A SAML 2.0 identity provider serving live machine-readable metadata, with Redirect/SSO, POST/SSO, POST-SimpleSign/SSO, POST/SLO and SOAP/Redirect/SLO bindings and a signing certificate rotated 2026-05-15. Oxford is registered in the UK Access Management Federation and eduGAIN with one production and two test identity providers, plus 35 service providers spanning central IT, departments and colleges — All Souls, Worcester, Lincoln, Keble, St Hilda's, Brasenose, Exeter, St John's, Continuing Education, NDORMS, Structural Biology, Statistics and the Text Archive among them. Caveat recorded rather than hidden: the document served at the metadata URL is the Shibboleth software's built-in self-description and still carries the product's default placeholder display name and an internal node entityID; the federation registration, not that document, is the authoritative identity.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Metadata** — https://idp.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-oxford-domain-standards.yml

## Other University of Oxford APIs (9)

- [ORA — Oxford University Research Archive OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/ora-oai-pmh/)
- [ORA — Research Archive Search & Record API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/ora-search/)
- [Digital Bodleian IIIF API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/bodleian-iiif/)
- [Oxford Text Archive OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/oxford-text-archive-oai-pmh/)
- [Oxford Continuing Education WordPress REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/conted-wp-rest/)
- [Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/sds-figshare-tenancy/)
- [SOLO library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/solo-primo-tenancy/)
- [Oxford Canvas VLE (Instructure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/canvas-tenancy/)
- [Oxford recruitment (CoreHR tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/recruit-corehr-tenancy/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN

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