Federation metadata

The OpenAthens Federation Metadata is published at: http://fed.openathens.net/oafed/metadata

ETag support

If your application supports it, you can check the ETag and avoid re-fetching unchanged metadata

EntityAttributes

Optional and may not appear for all entities. We use the macedir.org specification.

Hide from discovery:

http://macedir.org/entity-category

md:EntityDescriptor > md:Extensions > md:EntityAttributes > saml:Attribute#http://macedir.org/entity-category

• <saml:AttributeValue>http://refeds.org/category/hide-from-discovery</saml:AttributeValue>

Entity categories

http://macedir.org/entity-category-support

md:EntityDescriptor > md:Extensions > md:EntityAttributes > saml:Attribute#http://macedir.org/entity-category-support

• <saml:AttributeValue> http://refeds.org/category/research-and-scholarship </saml:AttributeValue>

• <saml:AttributeValue> http://www.geant.net/uri/dataprotection-code-of-conduct/v1 </saml:AttributeValue>

Extensions 

Extensions are usually unique to a federation and names can be different. These are ours:

md:EntityDescriptor > md:IDPSSODescriptor > md:Extensions > mdui:UIInfo

• mdui:DisplayName
• mdui:Description
• mdui:Logo

Logos, where present, may have small and/or large versions. Extensions can be unique to a federation