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Authority Cleanup cleans up headings to facilitate matching on national-level authority records during the matching process. MARS 2.0 Authority Cleanup subfield correction routines include: | Authority Cleanup cleans up headings to facilitate matching on national-level authority records during the matching process. MARS 2.0 Authority Cleanup subfield correction routines include: | ||
− | + | * Updating obsolete forms of subdivisions to the current form | |
− | + | * Correcting common typographical errors | |
− | + | * Expanding abbreviations in subject subfields to their fuller form | |
− | + | * Converting common direct geographic subdivisions to their indirect form | |
− | + | * Deleting subject subdivisions which have been canceled or discontinued | |
− | + | * Correcting spacing, capitalization, and punctuation | |
==Topics== | ==Topics== | ||
+ | [[Profile Guide Chapter 3 1|Question 1]] Perform Authority Control | ||
+ | [[Profile Guide Chapter 3 2|Question 2]] Normalization of Generic Name Headings |
Revision as of 12:00, 1 August 2008
Chapter three is one of our most comprehensive documents, and as such is too large for a single page.
Overview
Overview The first phase of MARS 2.0 Authority Control comprises a wide variety of routines that update and correct individual subfields and contiguous pairs of subfields. These corrections are based on a number of subfield update tables maintained by MARS 2.0 authorities librarians.
Authority Cleanup cleans up headings to facilitate matching on national-level authority records during the matching process. MARS 2.0 Authority Cleanup subfield correction routines include:
- Updating obsolete forms of subdivisions to the current form
- Correcting common typographical errors
- Expanding abbreviations in subject subfields to their fuller form
- Converting common direct geographic subdivisions to their indirect form
- Deleting subject subdivisions which have been canceled or discontinued
- Correcting spacing, capitalization, and punctuation
Topics
Question 1 Perform Authority Control Question 2 Normalization of Generic Name Headings