[Wactclc-alma] Preview Jobs in Alma?

[Guidry, Wade]

Building on Kirsti’s idea, you could export the bib records, edit them in marcedit, which has some nice batch change features, and the import / overlay back into Alma.




Wade Guidry
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From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Heather Jean Uhl
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Brilliant idea, Kirsti.  Thanks.

Heather Jean Uhl, Faculty Librarian (pronouns: she / her)
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 4:17 PM Thomas, Kirsti <Kirsti.Thomas at seattlecolleges.edu<mailto: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.

Kirsti S. Thomas
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Seattle Colleges
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Heather and all,

The Cal State project site has a good walk-through on creating and testing norm rules in Alma:

https://calstate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/URM/pages/637960208/How+to+create+and+test+an+Alma+normalization+rule<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalstate.atlassian.net%2Fwiki%2Fspaces%2FURM%2Fpages%2F637960208%2FHow%2Bto%2Bcreate%2Band%2Btest%2Ban%2BAlma%2Bnormalization%2Brule&data=02%7C01%7C%7C453a836c1fe6405adfc508d7ae780e65%7C02d8ff38d7114e31a9156cb5cff788df%7C0%7C0%7C637169702977859030&sdata=TPko%2BkkgTltkXuMMSo7CZHGR%2FJZbwksNC7iqOqfwZGQ%3D&reserved=0>

You can test Alma norm rules by previewing their results on a record-by-record basis.

For running a rule against a large record set, you could select a few representative (or random) records from the batch.

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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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Preview Jobs in Alma?

Hi, everyone.

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.

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.

Advice?  Past cautionary experiences?  Thanks in advance!

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

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