Tag: data quality
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Second officer’s log #2
Read more: Second officer’s log #2One of the challenges I’ve recently faced as second officer (in charge of cataloguing), is to do with data cleaning. I took a training course on the library metadata editing software MarcEdit, in the hopes that it could help fix some common data issues in our catalogue records. I exported all of our library catalogue…
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Sorting out the Popes!
Read more: Sorting out the Popes!This is not an attempt to criticize the Catholic Church or the Popes. It is merely a data quality project. Please let me explain this further. Every catalogue record should have so-called “authorities”, these are bits in the record which are highly-controlled forms of a name or a subject; if we do our job properly…