Enhance Analytics Support for Authority Records (Additional MARC Fields)
We would like to propose an enhancement to Alma Analytics for authority records.
Currently, Alma Analytics provides limited support for authority fields, such as 1XX and 373. However, many other important MARC authority fields are not available for reporting and analysis.
We recommend adding more authority fields to Analytics, including but not limited to:
046 – Special coded dates (commonly used for birth and death dates of authors)
372 – Field of activity
374 – Occupation
375 – Gender
These fields are widely used in authority records and are highly valuable for data analysis, authority control, and research purposes.
Providing access to these fields in Analytics would:
Improve data visibility and reporting capabilities
Support better authority data management
Enable libraries to perform more advanced analysis on author attributes
We strongly encourage the inclusion of these fields in future enhancements to Alma Analytics.
Thank you for considering this request.
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