What does rank mean in BulkImport log file?

Question

In log.imp.* file for BulkImport, there is BibID & rank logged. What does the number logged for rank mean?

Answer

Rank is the total field weight for all field matches between the incoming and existing records as defined by the import rule's Bibliographic Duplicate Detection Profile.

If the rank value meets or exceeds the Duplicate Replace value set in the profile, the import process will consider this match a duplicate and handle the incoming record according to the Duplicate Handling defined in the profile.

Additional Information

Example:

If you have defined in System Administration > Cataloging > Bibliographic Duplicate Detection > {profile} > Field Definitions:

Field: Field weight:
BBID 100
0350 100

If the incoming record contains
001 554321
035 112345

and a record in the database contains
001 554321
035 112345

then in the log you will see
BibID & rank
554321 - 200

Category: Batch jobs

Subject: Voyager

• Article last edited: 12/17/2013