IGeLU 2022 Hybrid Conference and Developers' Day 12 -15th September, 2022

The international cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA), requires a unique access point for every title. The Alma title field searches 38 MARC fields and over 100 subfields, so determining if your title is unique can be difficult in Alma when your title is only a few words long. This presentation will show how the National Library of Medicine created an advanced formula in Alma Analytics that normalizes the MARC 245 field, removes initial articles, and only returns the subfields in the 245 field that determine title uniqueness ($a, $n, $p). We will also discuss why the out-of-the-box Analytics field Title (Normalized) is not suitable to determine title uniqueness. The tool we have created allows cataloguers to do a single search that finds all possible title conflicts and shows them what title qualifiers are already in use.

Demonstration

Alma

Intermediate

Analytics

Virtual session (and available to physical attendees)