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ECS Glossary

Note: this glossary is a work in progress and subject to change/clarification

Term	Description
Affiliation	Association with a given tenant in a multitenant environment. "Primary affiliation" is the default association, "active affiliation" is the association during a given session.
Central tenant (aka Consortia tenant)	The FOLIO tenant in an ECS implementation responsible for managing consortium-wide configurations, shared databases and other central management components.
Data tenant/Member tenant	A FOLIO tenant in an ECS implementation responsible for managing a subset of records or other data types, with its own configuration, permissions and other local settings. When that tenant is largely self-sustaining with its own internal operations (e.g. an independent library within a consortium) it is a "member tenant". When that tenant is administrative and not fully autonomous (e.g. a special collection or part of a larger library), it is a "data tenant."
ECS (Enhanced Consortia Support)	A framework for allowing multiple FOLIO tenants to work together as a cohesive unit while allowing high levels of tenant-specific configuration, permissions and other local settings.
Local	Specific to one given tenant. A "local" instance record only supports holdings and items from that same tenant and not from other member tenants.
Promote	Transform a local instance record into a shared instance record
Shared	Common to all tenants across the consortium and managed at the Central tenant. A "shared" instance record supports holdings and items from any member/data tenant.
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