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

TermDescription
AffiliationAssociation 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 tenantA 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.
LocalSpecific to one given tenant. A "local" instance record only supports holdings and items from that same tenant and not from other member tenants.
PromoteTransform a local instance record into a shared instance record
ShadowA type of record used to synchronize data between central and data tenants. Users designated as "staff" at member tenants automatically create shadow users at the central tenant.
SharedCommon 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.
Tenant

ECS Users overview

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