IGeLU 2026 Conference and Developers Day, 19-22 October 2026

Conference

From time to time, we will have a project involving handling large amounts of metadata. It can be a project of quality control, enrichment, correcting and/or updating existing metadata in legacy bibliographical records, or entering and cataloging large amounts of new material either from donations or institutional requirements.

When we embark on these projects, we need to decide which method is best for our institution: a quick and dirty way, or a slow and clean way, or some combination of the two.

Quick and dirty means performing changes in metadata in large quantities, using some kind of automation [e.g. Alma jobs], which may result in some errors. Slow and clean means changing individual records one by one or in small batches which may take longer but ensures metadata quality.

In this presentation I will discuss University of Haifa Library staff experiences of performing such projects and the criteria that guided our decision making and best practices.

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