Remove 246 $a from title matching
When fuzzy and extended fuzzy tests for title matches, they include 246 $a. This allows too many mismatches. When testing for title matches, match should not evaluate on 246 $a at all. For example, the current routine considers these two titles a match (due to 246 $a), even though they are in different languages (both have Plato as an author), have different ISBN, publishers, etc.:
Title: Ion, oder, Über die Ilias
Published: Göttingen ; Bristol, CT, U.S.A. : Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, [2017]
Title: Ion.
Published: Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2018.
Thank you for the idea.
Extended Fuzzy Serial Match Method now supports the same functionality as the Extended Fuzzy Serial Match Method, except that when matching against the title, this profiles matches only by 245 a,b,k,n,p and not by 245 a,b,k,n,p, 245 a, 210 a, 246 a.
for more information please see:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/060Record_Import/020Managing_Import_Profiles
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Corinna Baksik commented
This is not above the Alma title search. This is exclusively about the fuzzy extended matching used for Import Profiles
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Leona Hughes commented
As a cataloger, I understand what you are saying. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you mean during the cataloging process in the Metadata Editor. I like the search matching in the basic search, because it gives me the opportunity to see other similar titles and I wind up finding records to correct. I do not like the same "Title - keyword" search when I'm saving a new record.
I would like to see an option in the Metadata Editor view to be able to have it match only on the 245 field or exact title phrase AND the type of record represented in the LDR. Sometimes we have the book in electronic format or microfiche format, but we still want to add the physical format. When I am saving a new physical format, I get a match with the electronic format in MD-Editor.