Improved functionality for Authority contribution (Copy to community)
This copy option was introduced in the November 2019 release: Authority Contribution – Copy Option:
For institutions that are authorized to contribute authority records to the Community Zone, there is a new Record View page action (Copy to Community) that enables you to easily copy an authority record to the MD Editor, edit and save it, and contribute the saved record to the Community Zone and an external authority system such as GND, BARE, or NLI. The Copy to Community action appears when you select a title to view from your Authorities search results on the Community tab. See Copy to Community for more information.
We very much welcome this feature. The current functionality, totally detached from the cataloging process, makes it however a lot less useful than expected. We suggest ExLibris redesign the functionality to better make it support our daily cataloging workflow:
• When authorizing a heading during cataloging in the MDE (F3), an option to search for external authorities, much like the "Search Resources"-functionality, should appear.
• There is a need for matching, merging, normalizing and filtering the authority records in the same way as for the bib.records we import by use of "Search Resources". It should be possible to have different import profiles for the different sources.