Authority--Normalize periods in initialisms and acronyms by elimininating them, not replacing them with spaces
Currently large numbers of headings with initialisms and acronyms appear as "ambiguous" on the Authority Control Task List. When viewed in "edit" the headings appear both with and without periods. There is, in fact, no ambiguity because both forms of the heading appear on the same authority record. One form is in the 1xx field and the other is in the 4xx field. Examples are: PBS Distribution (Firm), NASA technical memorandum and JPS anthology of Jewish thought.
This is a problem because headings listed as "ambiguous" need to be manually edited to link to the authority record, one-by-one. There are many series which include thousands of titles and linking each and every one to the authority record is impractical. Authority control is forfeited.
If normalization removed the periods without replacing them with spaces the problem would not occur. This is the normalization process which is used by NACO libraries.
Marsha Paiste
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