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One of the responsibilities of the campus identity management system is to link these authoritative records together Into into a single view of the person. (As a side effect of this linkage, additional attributes may be assigned to the person, such as a netID or campus email address.) While many systems (such as the learning management system or the library management system) may receive versions of the canonical person record for their own use, only one system can maintain the canonical person record. This is the system where errors are fixed before propagating to downstream systems.
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