Create a new an authorities search index “Matching Information” (or the like) for field 885
As Alma GND User Group we represent staff users that are tasked with data management in the Integrated Authority File (GND), the most widely used authority file in the German speaking library community.
We would like Ex Libris to introduce an authorities search index that makes the content of MARC 21 Format for Authority Data field 885 available for search purposes.
As a QA measure several different algorithms are applied to the content of GND to find potential duplicate records and mark these candidates in field 885. In cases where the confidence value does not reach a certain threshold, the records are not merged automatically. Instead staff users check the involved records intellectually and decide whether to merge them or not. In order to find these potentially duplicate records, we need an index for field 885. Of course the index would not only be available for GND, but for other authority files as well.
Sebastian Aigner
shared this idea
It is now allowed to search for the Authority content in Marc field 885.
For more information, please refer to the Alma May release notes and online help.
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Hello community,
We want to share with you the planned solution for this requirement. We will be adding new Authority search indexes based on the data stored in MARC21 885 field.(Edited by admin)