Herding (Bibliographic) Cats: A Mass Cleanup of Fixed Field Data
Channel: Evergreen Library System
Date: 2020-06-15

PAILS had a challenge common to many large consortia - they had grown quickly and brought into their shared catalog a lot of records from varying sources with varying practices. One of the primary tools for controlling the proliferation of records was deduplications. However, records with incorrectly filled out fixed fields data limited the effectiveness of deduplication and compromised the effectiveness of search by material types. There is no such thing as an unaddressable problem though. Join us to learn how we tackled this one.  Rogan Hamby Data and Project Analyst, Equinox Open Library Initiative.  Sylvia Orner Head of Technical Services, Scranton Public Library.  Katie Greenleaf Martin District Consultant, Altoona District Center.  Full transcript at https://evergreen-ils.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Wed-Track-2-Herding-Cats-A-Mass-Cleanup-of-Fixed-Field-Data.pdf