# UOW Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/idp-saml-metadata/  
**Provider:** University of Wollongong — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-wollongong/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.uow.edu.au/its/

UOW Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata) is one of 8 APIs that [University of Wollongong](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-wollongong/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, SSO, and AAF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The University of Wollongong's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. Its EntityDescriptor is served publicly and unauthenticated at https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth (HTTP 200, application/xml, 4,358 bytes) with entityID https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, a shibmd:Scope of uow.edu.au, IdP-Signing and IdP-Encryption X.509 key descriptors, HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect SingleSignOnService bindings, and the requested attributes auEduPersonSharedToken, email and displayName. The same entity is present in the Australian Access Federation aggregate metadata at md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml (HTTP 200, 3,188,501 bytes), which is how UOW federates with AAF service providers. The IdP is run on AAF's Rapid IdP managed Shibboleth service — the 404 page at idp.uow.edu.au titles itself "Rapid IdP Manager" — but the entity, the scope, the signing keys and the released attributes are UOW's. This is the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface in the profile.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://aaf.edu.au/subscribers/
- **IdentityFederation** — https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-wollongong/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Wollongong APIs (7)

- [Research Online (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/research-online-figshare/)
- [UOW Scholars (Symplectic Elements / Discovery tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/uow-scholars-symplectic/)
- [UOW Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/library-primo-alma/)
- [UOW Handbook course catalog API (undocumented)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/course-handbook-api/)
- [DataCite membership (repository uow.figshare)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref membership (University of Wollongong Library, member 5587)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR registration (00jtmb277)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/ror-registration/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, SSO, AAF, eduGAIN

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