---
name: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Standards Conformance
generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live probes of University of Michigan hosts and of the external registries that hold U-M's
  machine-readable membership records, 2026-08-19. Every entry below cites a URL that was
  fetched and a status code that was observed.
regime: education
note: >-
  Scored against the Kin Score `education` regime standards list (scim, lti, oneroster, ed-fi,
  caliper, qti, oai-pmh, shibboleth, saml, orcid, datacite, crossref). Reward-only: a standard
  is marked conforms:true ONLY where a machine-readable artifact was retrieved and read. U-M
  runs Canvas (LTI) and a Workday/PeopleSoft administrative stack (SCIM-adjacent), but no LTI,
  SCIM, OneRoster, Ed-Fi, Caliper or QTI contract or configuration document was retrievable on
  any public U-M host, so those are recorded false rather than assumed from the vendor stack.
standards:
  - id: oai-pmh
    conforms: true
    operator: institution
    evidence: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 confirmed live on a U-M host. GET
      https://backend.production.deepblue-documents.lib.umich.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
      -> 200 text/xml, protocolVersion 2.0, repositoryName "Deep Blue", repositoryIdentifier
      "deepblue.lib.umich.edu", adminEmail deepblue@umich.edu, earliestDatestamp
      2005-08-29T23:07:21Z, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord transient. All six
      verbs returned 200 (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords,
      GetRecord); ListSets reports completeListSize 726; ListMetadataFormats advertises twelve
      prefixes. Captures in examples/, described in
      openapi/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-deep-blue-documents-oai-pmh-openapi.yml.
  - id: shibboleth
    conforms: true
    operator: institution
    evidence: >-
      U-M operates its own Shibboleth Identity Provider. GET
      https://shibboleth.umich.edu/idp/shibboleth -> 200 application/xml;charset=UTF-8, 10,923
      bytes. Document carries the Shibboleth-specific metadata extension
      xmlns:shibmd="urn:mace:shibboleth:metadata:1.0" with shibmd:Scope entries for umich.edu,
      annarbor.umich.edu, umd.umich.edu, dearborn.umich.edu and flint.umich.edu. Same document
      served at https://weblogin.umich.edu/idp/shibboleth (200, identical byte count). Saved
      verbatim at authentication/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-shibboleth-idp-metadata.xml.
  - id: saml
    conforms: true
    operator: institution
    evidence: >-
      SAML 2.0 metadata. The same document is a
      urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata EntityDescriptor with
      entityID="https://shibboleth.umich.edu/idp/shibboleth" and an IDPSSODescriptor with
      protocolSupportEnumeration="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol", signing and encryption
      KeyDescriptors, and SingleSignOnService / SingleLogoutService endpoints. Registration
      independently confirmed through the InCommon metadata query service: GET
      https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fshibboleth.umich.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
      -> 200 application/samlmetadata+xml, 9,252 bytes, carrying
      mdrpi:RegistrationInfo registrationAuthority="https://incommon.org".
  - id: datacite
    conforms: true
    operator: institution
    evidence: >-
      University of Michigan Library is a DataCite direct member. GET
      https://api.datacite.org/providers/umich -> 200 application/vnd.api+json; symbol UMICH,
      name "University of Michigan Library", memberType direct_member, created 2018-11-21,
      rorId https://ror.org/00jmfr291. Five repositories are registered under it — UMICH.LIBRARY,
      UMICH.IRIS (Institute for Research on Innovation & Science), UMICH.MC (Materials Commons),
      UMICH.KPMP (Kidney Precision Medicine Project) and UMICH.RSCLID (Remote Sensing Code
      Library) — via https://api.datacite.org/clients?provider-id=umich -> 200, total 5.
      Registry record, not a contract U-M itself publishes.
  - id: crossref
    conforms: true
    operator: institution
    evidence: >-
      University of Michigan Library is Crossref member 2393 with DOI prefix 10.3998
      (Michigan Publishing). GET https://api.crossref.org/members?query=university+of+michigan
      -> 200 application/json. University of Michigan Law Library is separately member 22573
      with ten prefixes (10.36635 / 10.36639-10.36646 / 10.61575). Registry record, not a
      contract U-M itself publishes.
  - id: orcid
    conforms: false
    evidence: >-
      No ORCID integration was retrievable from any public U-M machine-readable surface. The
      Deep Blue OAI-PMH oai_dc records carry dc:creator as plain-text names with no ORCID iD in
      dc:identifier or dc:creator; no ORCID member API configuration or claim was found on a
      readable U-M host. Not asserted.
  - id: lti
    conforms: false
    evidence: >-
      U-M runs Canvas, which is LTI-capable, but Canvas at U-M is a vendor tenancy and no LTI
      tool configuration, LTI Advantage registration or platform configuration document was
      retrievable on a public U-M host. Not creditable to the institution.
  - id: scim
    conforms: false
    evidence: >-
      No SCIM service provider configuration document was reachable. The MCommunity directory
      APIs sit behind the ITS API Directory (Apigee X), which requires a U-M uniqname, Duo
      two-factor and campus network/VPN — no anonymous probe of a /ServiceProviderConfig
      endpoint was possible.
  - id: oneroster
    conforms: false
    evidence: No OneRoster endpoint or conformance claim found on any public U-M host.
  - id: ed-fi
    conforms: false
    evidence: No Ed-Fi ODS/API surface found. Ed-Fi is a K-12 standard; not expected here.
  - id: caliper
    conforms: false
    evidence: No Caliper Analytics event store or sensor configuration found on a public U-M host.
  - id: qti
    conforms: false
    evidence: No QTI assessment content or QTI-conformant service found on a public U-M host.