ACTL needs to be refined: Ending ISBD punctuation issue
There are many entries in ACTL that the only difference between BIB Heading Before and BIB Heading After is that the full stop is removed at the end of BIB Heading After. For example:
BIB Heading Before
Hong Kong (China). Census and Statistics Department.
BIB Heading After
Hong Kong (China). Census and Statistics Department
This kind of entries should be excluded from ACTL since this is not heading update at all.
Sun Zehua
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Leigh Billings
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Agreed. This is not a significant heading update, and additionally: there is no action that can be taken to fix the punctuation in any case, whether it was removed (like in this case) or added erroneously, because it was done during the automated Preferred Term Correction (PTC) process which relies solely on this punctuation table to add punctuation to updated headings; no matter how many times you try to manually add it back in, the PTC job will remove it the next day. Thus, this unnecessary 'task' is also impossible to complete, and should not appear on the ACTL at all - or, at least, there should be an option to filter/remove punctuation-only changes: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Metadata_Management/060Working_with_Authority_Records#Implemented_Punctuation_Rules_for_Updated_Bibliographic_Records