UMP EBC Technical FAQ
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A: Yes, MARC files for all EBC titles can be downloaded from a public Box folder 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.
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A: Yes. KBART files provide metadata only for those titles which are currently available on the platform. The KBART files are available in a Box folderfrom https://ftp.fulcrum.org/UMPEBC/KBART/.
Q: When will the backfiles be officially "closed" or complete so that we can stop checking back for MARC records?
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- 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
- Your Identity Provider must be configured to release attribute 'eduPersonScopedAffiliation' to entityId 'https://fulcrum.org/sp'.
- You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.
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