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    This information is not applicable to Primo VE environments. Only the Display, Facets, and Search sections are configurable in Primo VE. For more details, see Mapping to the Display, Facets, and Search Sections in the Primo VE Record.

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    The Control section in the PNX includes formatted data used for control purposes. The following table lists the contents of the Control section.
    Control Section Fields
    Field Code Description
    sourceid
    The source ID identifies the source repository in Primo. Every source repository has a configuration file in which the sourceid and other information about the source repository are recorded.
    originalsourceid
    This ID identifies the source repository in the source system. This is not necessarily the same as the source repository's identifier in Primo—for example, USM01.
    sourcerecordid
    This ID identifies the record in the source repository (such as an ALEPH system number supplied in MARC 21 tag 001). This ID must be unique and persistent within the source repository. It is derived from the OAI header.
    addsrcrecordid
    This ID identifies an additional ID of the source record.

    almaid

    The Alma ID is the Alma institution code concatenated with a colon and the original Alma record ID. This is required for Alma-Primo environments only.

    colldiscovery

    For Alma-Primo environments only, this field contains the collection information that is mapped from the following subfields of the COL field:

    • $$a – Parent collection ID

    • $$b – Collection title

    • $$c – Collection name

    • $$A – The owning institution. Currently, this field is added only for centralized publishing, but it will be used for standard publishing in the future.

    recordid
    The record ID is a unique identifier of the record in the Primo repository. The sourceid and sourcerecordid are concatenated to create the recordid (for example, ALEPH system number + tag 001).
    sourcetype
    Source type—not in use.
    sourceformat
    The source format identifies the original format of the source record (such as MARC 21, Dublin Core, and MAB2).
    sourcesystem
    The source system identifies the system used by the source repository (such as ALEPH, ADAM, MetaLib, SFX, and Digitool).
    recordtype
    Record type—not in use.
    lastmodified
    Date last modified—not in use.
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