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    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 16.02

    Description:
    Problems with the Union catalog (technically, Union View):

    1) merging records of items in different formats
    2) merging records for completely different items
    3) attaching libraries holdings to the wrong bibliographic records
    4) multiply listing items

    Resolution:
    The union programs look for matching bib records and point the z120 of a matching, non-preferred record to the z120 of the preferred record.

    $alephe_tab/union_global_param specifies that ABC01 is using union_candidate_cdl, union_match_cdl, and union_preferred_cdl.

    The union_candidate_cdl is coded to look at the following indexes in finding matches: 010, 020, 022, and NTL (normalized title, a Word index).

    The union_match_cdl mongraph program compares the 008, 010, 020, and 245 fields in deciding on a match.

    The union_match_cdl serials program compares the 010, 022, 245, 008, and 260 fields in deciding on a match.

    The problem I see with this is that none of these consider the 035 field which, for your consortium's data, is the best match point.

    SDLN is using the routines union_candidate_sdln and union_match_sdln. These routines *do* include the 035 in their logic. They look at a "PNO" IND Direct index which is built from the 035 field (the number-part only). (I see that you do have this PNO index defined and populated.)

    This can be tested as follows:

    1. Make a test change to the candidate and match lines in union_global_param. Change the lines with "T" in column 2 to sdln:

    xxxnn T candidate_prog union_candidate_sdln
    100
    xxxnn T match_prog union_match_sdln

    2. restart ue_01

    3. resend all of the records in each described group of problem records to the server to see if their z120 match-and-preferred records are built correctly when this change is in place

    3. if so, rerun p_union_01 and p_union_02 to recreate the z120.

    4. if not, use util f/1/21 to diagnose the problem.

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    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013
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