UMP EBC Technical FAQ

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A: Yes, MARC files for all EBC titles can be downloaded from https://ftp.fulcrum.org/UMPEBC/MARC/. These files contain all the records which have been completed by the University of Michigan Library cataloging department. These records may be completed a few months before the title is loaded onto the Fulcrum platform. Currently, the 2019 file contains only titles that are currently available (though earlier versions of the 2019 file contained additional records); we are working on a refined workflow that will add these records to the other MARC files only when the titles are available on Fulcrum. You can sign up for monthly updates on new MARC files by sending an email to ebc-tech-contacts-requests@umich.edu.

Q: What do the filenames of the MARC records mean?

A:Files named for a specific product/collection, e.g. 'UMPEBC_2022.mrc', contain the cumulative set of MARC records for all titles that are currently live in that collection. These files are the best option for making sure you have the most up-to-date set of records. We also make available incremental update files for those who prefer only to load records that have been added or corrected since your previous load. In this case, just download and load the files named e.g. 'UMPEBC_2022_update_YYYY-MM-DD.mrc', substituting YYYY-MM-DD with all dates that follow the last time you loaded records for this collection.

For example:

• 'UMPEBC_2011Pre.mrc' contains all records for titles with a copyright date of 2011 or previous.
• 'UMPEBC_2011Pre_update_2021-09-15.mrc' contains only records for the above collection that were added on September 15, 2021 (either because the title is newly added to the collection or the cataloging is newly complete). It will not contain records from previous update files unless those records are being enhanced or corrected in this update.
• 'UMPEBC_Complete.mrc' contains all records from all collections, including those included in UMPEBC_2011Pre.mrc.
• 'UMPEBC_OA.mrc' contains records for all Open Access titles across all collections.

Q: Are KBART files available directly from UMP?

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1. Your institution must have a SAML-based Identity Provider (IdP) whose metadata we can consume via a stable URL and which defines a security domain using shibMD:scope. This is most commonly achieved through membership to an identity federation that participates in eduGAIN.  The following federations have been confirmed to support access to Fulcrum via eduGAIN as of November 2019:
   • Canadian Access Federation (CAF)
   • HEAnet / Edugate
   • InCommon
   • UK Federation
2. Your Identity Provider must be configured to release attribute 'eduPersonScopedAffiliation' to entityId 'https://fulcrum.org/sp'.
3. You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.

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