Automatic Headings Correction–Validate Headings

After about a month of working with the headings validation tool, I’m ready to start adding a few enhancements to provide some automated headings corrections.  The first change to be implemented will be automatic correction of headings where the preferred heading is different from the in-use headings.  This will be implemented as an optional element.  If this option is selected, the report will continue to note variants are part of the validation report — but when exporting data for further processing — automatically corrected headings will not be included in the record sets for further action.

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Additionally — I’ll continue to be looking at ways to improve the speed of the process.  While there are some limits to what I can do since this tool relies on a web service (outside of providing an option for users to download the ~10GB worth of LC data locally), there are a few things I can to do continue to ensure that only new items are queried when resolving links.

These changes will be made available on the next update.

–tr


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  1. Clare Murphy Avatar
    Clare Murphy

    Very interesting! I was wondering whether there are any plans to include the BISAC ($2bisacsh) subject headings…
    A common form would be: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship. <- This is the type of heading format that BISG delivers when they ship the whole file of annually updated headings to its BISG members.

    In MarcEdit it looks like: =650 \7$aJUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship.$2bisacsh

    Although in actual use, many records seem to have variations on that basic form. E.g.:

    =650 \7$aJUVENILE FICTION$xSocial Issues$xFriendship.$2bisacsh

    =650 \7$aFriendship.$2bisacsh

    Our library uses those BISAC headings. I have been using MarcEdit during the past year, to find all heading with 'bisacsh' in my eContent marcs before I import them, and thus allow me to manually adjust individual headings. My authority files are much saner now. But if there is a way to more automatically accomplish this, I would be delighted to hear!