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  1. Add ISO 639-3 microlanguage names to Alma title search facets

    In Alma titles search facets, display the microlanguage name instead of its code. PCC recently approved the implementation of the ISO 639-3 language codes for use in MARC 008/35-37 and also 546$b.

    Example: where the language facet for a title search shows...

    Language
    Chinese (1)
    wuu (1)

    ...the following would be more useful...

    Language
    Wu Chinese (1)

    16 votes
    4 comments  ·  Metadata Management  ·  Admin →
    Planned  ·  AdminLili Daie (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Dear all,

    We agree that support for ISO 639-3 languages in 041 is important, and are working on a solution for this.

    Language marc codes are used in several places in Alma, including controlled vocabulary, advanced language search by selecting a language from a list of languages (which are mapped to marc codes in the metadata) and search facet.

    The ISO 639-3 list introduces some complications to several of these workflows, such as languages that are mapped to different codes (e.g. French, which is mapped to fre / fra in the different coding systems). Our solution concept is therefore:

    1. Introducing a new search index, "Language code", which will allow searching for the language code from the MARC record directly, regardless of the source of code - planned for the coming November release (to be fully operational after the November re-indexing).
    2. We are working on future plans to offer more comprehensive…

  2. add security levels to norm rules

    Because all norm rules can be edited by all staff with cataloger roles, there is great room for erroneous changes for rules that are applied to batch jobs. For example, the norm rule that is applied to records being brought in from Z39.50 targets can be edited by any staff member. A single error in the rule can break the z39.50 import process for all staff until the source of the error is identified. Likewise, if we have a rule applied to import profiles and a staff member inadvertently changes it and we load 50,000 records, that could cause huge…

    275 votes
    Planned  ·  18 comments  ·  Metadata Management  ·  Admin →
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