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Terry Reese <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:31:46 -0400
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There isn't going to be a straightforward way to do this.  The closest I'm
thinking is the dedup records tool which allows you to search against a
single or multiple files and target a specific set of field/subfields.
However, these would be looking for exact matches (unless you enabled fuzzy
matching) -- which might be required given that the 5xx fields may have
small variations.

--tr

-----Original Message-----
From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
<[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Lisa Hatt
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 8:51 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Comparing different field contents for duplicate
content

Hi all,

An extremely green user of MarcEdit here. Is it possible to do the following
kind of thing?

I have two MARC files. One has certain data in 500 fields. (An extract of
Local Bibliographic Data from WMS, if that means anything, so they are very
brief - LDR, 001, 004, and then some 500/590/599s.) I would like to know if
duplicates of their contents exist in any 505 or 520 fields in the other
file, and if so, mark/select the record in the file for eventual extraction
or deletion.

Or, if this is possible to do within the same record, I also have a version
of the file where that LBD data is merged in situ for each title record, so
in that case I would want to know whether the contents of any
500 fields within each record are duplicated in 505 or 520 fields within the
same record, and if so, mark/select the record.

-- 
Lisa Hatt
Cataloging | De Anza College Library
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