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Terry,

I have been working on replacing the 856 fields for Apabi ebooks. The merge function works great on one to one relationships (I guess it matches on 020s only)

However,  many Apabi records are one to many relationships (i.e., one isbn in one record with multiple 856s; many reocords share the same ISBNs). Many records even don't have ISBNs. Is it possible the merge function will enhance its ability to deal with one to many conditions, and add matching points such 245s? Currently I deal with these conditions manually and replace the links one by one!

Many thanks!

Liming Shen
Cataloger
Hong Kong Institute of Education Library

-----Original Message-----
From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Reese, Terry
Sent: Wednesday, 5 January, 2011 14:54
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Using the new Merge option

Tim, 

Thanks -- good to know that it's working.  I will be allowing you to turn on/off portions of the matching.  Actually had been working on that over the 1st and then came down with a horrible cold that knocked me out.  I've just started getting back at things -- so maybe next weekend.

--TR

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Timothy M. McCarthy
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] Using the new Merge option
> 
> Hi Terry,
> 
> I tried the new merge feature with a file of 879 records.  Two records 
> didn't merge and the differences were:
> 
> Record #1 had an 008/23 of o instead of s and had CAPITALIZED first 
> letters of each word in the 245 $b.
> 
> Record #2 had an 008/23 of o instead of s, a 245$a variation.
> 
> It seems this verifies that the merge match did what you said it would.
> Very exact matching.  I think it would be great to turn some of those 
> on or off if I was trying to match and just add an 856 or some content 
> notes, but it's still a nice addition to this awesome tool!
> 
> Thanks very much and Happy New Year to all!
> Tim
> 
> Timothy M. McCarthy
> University at Buffalo
> 716.645.8577
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> On 2:59 PM, Reese, Terry wrote:
> > <pre wrap>
> > As I noted, the new merge option will be implemented in 2 parts.
> > This first part will merge data from two separate files using a more 
> > heuristical approach.  To use it, select MARC21 from the control
> field
> > box (see below):
> >
> > Items used for matching:
> >
> > *         LDR position 6
> >
> > *         LDR position 7
> >
> > *         008 date 1 and date 2
> >
> > *         008 lang
> >
> > *         008 form
> >
> > *         245 a-n
> >
> > *         300
> >
> > *         250a
> >
> > *         260b
> >
> > *         776w
> >
> > Anyway, give it a spin and let me know what you guys think.
> >
> > --TR
> >
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> >
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