Event page: https://igelu.org/event/igelu-2025-conference-and-developers-day-siena/
Comment: Provisional version – subject to change
XSLT to Normalize Bibliographic Data in Alma
Event part
Developers Day
Abstract
Until the May 2025 release, Drools was the only way to manipulate MARC data in crucial places in Alma, such as normalizing on save when editing a record in the Metadata Editor. The Austrian Library Network has used Drools extensively despite all it's flaws. Since we now have the option to use XSLT for this tasks, we are committed on doing so. As we have demanded XSLT loudly and Ex Libris has delivered upon it, we have to show that it fulfills all the hopes we have projected at this beautiful programming language. This talk will share our strategy for how to go about this change and the experiences we made in this transition. We will talk about how we set up our development processes and our testing framework. We plan to generate documentation from source and will share how we do it. We will look into our strategies to deliver our code to Alma. Lastly, we will share our learnings. What to do, what to avoid.
Track
Practical Applications
Products or Areas of Focus
Alma
Presenters
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/77b763a2246170e42ac502f54fdd3ed6.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Stefan Schuh, OBVSG - Austrian Library Network, Metadata Analyst")