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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
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* Updating obsolete forms of subdivisions to the current form
Correcting common typographical errors
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* Correcting common typographical errors
Expanding abbreviations in subject subfields to their fuller form
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* Expanding abbreviations in subject subfields to their fuller form
Converting common direct geographic subdivisions to their indirect form
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* Converting common direct geographic subdivisions to their indirect form
Deleting subject subdivisions which have been canceled or discontinued
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* Deleting subject subdivisions which have been canceled or discontinued
Correcting spacing, capitalization, and punctuation
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* Correcting spacing, capitalization, and punctuation
  
  
 
==Topics==
 
==Topics==
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[[Profile Guide Chapter 3 1|Question 1]] Perform Authority Control
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[[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