make OCLC delimiter (double dagger (ǂ)) invalid in Alma
Please make the OCLC delimiter (double dagger (ǂ)) an invalid character in Alma. We all copy and paste information from Connexion. Often, people forget to change the double dagger to the double $$. Please make the double dagger invalid, and require the cataloger to replace with the proper character ($$) before they save the record. Other systems like Voyager make the cataloger replace the double dagger delimiter before they can save the record.
mcorby
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Hanoch Roniger
commented
As of June 2018 the solution I suggested is no longer valid as "$$" is not allowed and will break the NR (I found two inelegant solutions as a workaround).
In addition, I see no point in preventing a save because of a technical change required from the cataloger, it i seems that a better solution will be to autocorrect "‡" & "ǂ" into "$$" (when the are adjacent to a character) on save instead of getting an error message prompting you to make this exact change manually.
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Hanoch Roniger
commented
Dear mcorby,
We at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have circumvented this problem by creating a NR that runs upon saving which changes the double daggers to $$please note that we used the character 'Latin letter alveolar click' (U+01C2) and not the double dagger ‡ (U+02021) because this is the one that is used in OCLC Connexion
I have pasted our NR below
Hope it could be of use to you,
Hanoch
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rule "change double-dagger to $$"
when
(TRUE)
then
replaceContents "0**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "1**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "2**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "3**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "4**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "5**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "6**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "7**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
replaceContents "8**.*.ǂ" with "$$"
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Lyn Johnson
commented
It's not true that Voyager makes the cataloger replace the double dagger delimiter. We use Voyager and have no difficulty copying and pasting from Connexion. All our bib records use the double dagger.