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Draft Metadata Recommendation

  • All Alma item records must be marked with a Statistics Note 2 with designation of "committed to retain - ReCAP".   Additional commitments for same items will be added in same field separated by a comma ("committed to retain - ReCAP, Hathi)".

  • All Alma holding records where at least one item is committed must have an 583 field designating the term of the commitment.

    • Required coding:

      • First Indicator - 1 - Not Private
      • Second Indicator - # - Undefined
      • $a - Action (NR) - constant text: committed to retain
      • $c - Time/date of action (R)  - date of the commitment
      • $d - Action interval (R)  - constant text: in perpetuity
      • $f - Authorization (R) - name of the collaborative agreement 
      • $5 - Institution to which field applies (NR) - constant text: HUL

    • Example 583 for ReCAP Shared Collection

583 1# $a committed to retain $c 20181001 $d  indefinite  $f ReCAP Shared Collection  $5 HUL

  • Note, if Ex Libris provides an enhancement to add Alma item record fields specific to retention commitments, item records will be updated accordingly.

Proposed Batch Metadata Updates

LTS will:

  • Create itemized sets of items in Alma using spreadsheet data provided by Jim Hodgson as input. 
  • Update items identified for retention with a note in Statistics Note 2.
  • Apply a norm rule to add the 583 holdings linked to items in the set.  Norm rule will first check that an 583 $f ReCAP Shared Collection is not present already.

Open Questions

  • Is the retention byte (008/12) going to be updated also?
  • Are the ReCAP commitment for specific items owned at that time, or are new acquisitions (such as subsequently received issues of the same journal) also going to be committed?
  • Whose responsibility is it to develop/document/communicate policies and workflows on manual creation, maintenance, etc to make sure conflicts in coding don’t develop in future?
  • Is there contention between previously entered 583 fields and current fields? This needs analysis once records have been updated.
  • Are there other retention commitment scenarios, shared or local, that we need to accommodate in our use of these item and holdings fields?
  • What is the intended workflow for items that are marked lost or missing?  Do these need to be sent to collection development staff?
  • Is work on this a higher priority than Google scanning processing or the creation of the metadata file for Ivies Plus?
  • What is the workflow to use is a committed item is replaced with a new copy (for lost or damaged items)?

Impact on Ongoing Workflows

  • Staff will need training to look for the commitment statement before withdrawing items.
  • Workflow documentation would need to be developed for cases when withdrawing a previously committed item occurs.
  • Workflows will need to be developed to add or update item data and holdings 583 notes (including, potentially, $3) when new commitments are made. 

Timeline for ReCAP

  • Approve Recommendation
  • Creation of itemized sets for 4 million items (1 week)
  • Update items identified for 4 million items (Allison to get projection of 10,000 items throughput)
  • Identify linked holdings and update with 583 field (Allison to get projection of ~10,000 holdings throughput)

Project Background

https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/k5LjDQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

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