Event page: https://igelu.org/event/igelu-2025-conference-and-developers-day-siena/
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Migration of the digitized library card catalogs to Alma Digital
Event part
Developers Day
Abstract
The presentation outlines the migration of the Bavarian State Library's image catalogs to Alma Digital and the mapping of the required functionalities in Alma and Primo.
The collections cataloged between 1840 and 1952 were recorded in the Quarto Catalog (digitized in 2003); this is followed by the IFK Catalog, which covers the period up to 1981 (digitized in 1997). The data contained there was captured by external companies and transferred to the electronic catalog. The two image catalogs were loaded into a SISIS database and made accessible.
After the migration of the ILS from SISIS SunRise to Alma, the task of migrating the image catalogs remained. The aim was to enable browsing in the old catalogs, jumping to sections and viewing the individual card images. The image IDs of the old catalog version contained in the bib records had to be replaced by the corresponding image IDs of Alma Digital in order to enable a direct jump from a bib record to the relevant image(s) of the old catalog.
Track
Migration / Implementation
Products or Areas of Focus
Alma Digital
Primo / Primo VE
Presenters
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/afcf4a4fa901788b9948ac1d65882ab7.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Martin Baumgartner, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Metadata management")