Authority linking with identifiers: lessons learned on a major configuration change

9-10 September: pre-Conference meetings (at the KU Leuven Faculty of Social Science)
11-13 September: IGeLU 2023 Conference + Ex Libris Knowledge Days
14 September: Developers' Day + Ex Libris Knowledge Days + Ex Libris Primo VE Workshops

Except for sessions marked as "Physical session only (no live streaming)", all sessions are accessible to physical and virtual participants.

Session Abstract

Authority control is central to clean and structured bibliographic metadata. Alma offers two strategies for authority linking: character strings and identifiers.
While in the process of changing its main authority vocabulary, the Swiss Renouvaud consortium also decided to modify this basic feature and adopt the ID linking strategy. The latter offers stronger links, more accurate update of bibliographic headings, and is by and large more promising when it comes to future developments towards linked open data.
Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with Ex Libris Premium Consulting Service, Renouvaud could address this challenge. The consortium also took advantage of this major change in configuration to implement a custom tool for authority control.
In this presentation, we will introduce the context of the project, describe the steps needed as well as the difficulties encountered. Finally, we will review the outcome and the advantages of the new configuration.

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IGeLU 2023 Conference and Developers' Day

du 11 au 14 September 2023

Leuven, Belgium