The steps below provide a method to test a the process for batch updating MARC21 control fields in select bibliographic records in the Alma test environment (also referred to in Go Live Readiness Checklist, page 3).
Note: this process uses normalization rules that are created and saved in Alma’s Metadata Editor. These rules are retained at cutover. If you are planning to perform certain data clean up tasks after post Go Live, it is suggested that you run these jobs in your test environment, keep notes, then repeat in your production environment after go-live.
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Step 2: Create Normalization Rules (saved at cutover)
Go to: Metadata Editor > Rules. Rules Examplesmay be available in the ‘Shared’ folder. Rules created by other libraries can be found in the ‘Community’ folder. You may copy any of the rules from the ‘Community’ folder to your ‘Shared’ or ‘Private’ folder, and edit as needed.
Example normalization rules:
rule "Change LDR 6 to g for videorecording"
when
(existsControl "LDR.{6,1}")
then
replaceControlContents "LDR.{6,1}" with "g"
end
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rule "Change 008 #33 to v for videorecording"
when
(existsControl "LDR.{6,1}.g")
then
replaceControlContents "008.{33,1}" with "v"
end
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Step 3: Create a Normalization Process
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Additional normalization examples: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/alma-normalization-rule-examples/
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Step 4: Run Job
Admin > Run a Job > Marc 21 Bib normalization > Select the normalization job > Next > select set, etc.
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