[Wactclc-alma] Preview Jobs in Alma?

[Heather Jean Uhl]

Brilliant idea, Kirsti.  Thanks.

Heather Jean Uhl, Faculty Librarian (pronouns: she / her)
Acquisitions & Cataloging Department Supervisor
Everett Community College - Library Media Center
huhl at everettcc.edu | (425)388-9139

Library Liaison for English, Journalism, Communications, Theater
Japanese Culture Club Adviser
Instructor ART228D The World of Anime & Manga


On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 4:17 PM Thomas, Kirsti <
Kirsti.Thomas at seattlecolleges.edu> wrote:

> If you're really, really worried about something going wrong, you can
> create a set of the bib records you want to change, and export them in MARC
> format as a single file (Admin > Manage Jobs and Sets > Run a Job > Export
> Bibliographic Records).  That gives you a back-up copy of all the records
> that you can re-import if need be.
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> Kirsti S. Thomas
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> *From:* Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> *On Behalf Of *Guidry,
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> Heather and all,
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> The Cal State project site has a good walk-through on creating and testing
> norm rules in Alma:
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> You can test Alma norm rules by previewing their results on a
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> For running a rule against a large record set, you could select a few
> representative (or random) records from the batch.
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> Using the preview option in the metadata editor, you could get a pretty
> good idea about how your rule will affect your records.
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> *From:* Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu
> <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Heather Jean Uhl
> *Sent:* Monday, February 10, 2020 12:42 PM
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> *Subject:* [Wactclc-alma] Preview Jobs in Alma?
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> Hi, everyone.
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> I think I read something in the Alma documentation recently about the
> ability to preview a job before running it permanently.  Maybe I'm
> mis-remembering, because after a bit of searching in KB around sets and
> jobs, I can't seem to locate the documentation.
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> The reason I ask is that there are a couple MARC related clean-up projects
> I'd like to run on our local bib records in Alma.  I already created the
> processes and sets needed to do the jobs.  I've tested my normalization
> rules on single candidates, but that sets are in the 2,000+ range, and that
> makes me nervous as I've never done this in Alma.
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> Advice?  Past cautionary experiences?  Thanks in advance!
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> Heather Jean Uhl, Faculty Librarian (pronouns: she / her)
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