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| - | ====== How to clean up book metadata in Drupal | ||
| - | - Login at https:// | ||
| - | - Once you login, you should see a link called '' | ||
| - | - Click on '' | ||
| - | - This will take you to a list of all our repository items (book records). | ||
| - | - For each book you can see at a glance: '' | ||
| - | - You can quickly see what fields are missing from each book, and you can change the search criteria to only display books that are missing any or all of subjects, summaries, genres, literary format, and audience. | ||
| - | - You can also choose to display only those books that are published by selecting '' | ||
| - | - Click on the '' | ||
| - | - This will take you to the book record. You just need to worry about the '' | ||
| - | - You want to check that there’s data in all of these fields: | ||
| - | - **Genre** - the terms must be separated by commas; if the term contains more than one word then it must be surrounded by double quotation marks | ||
| - | - **Literary Format** - select one from the drop-down menu | ||
| - | - **Subject** - the more subject keywords, the better; the terms must be separated by commas; if the term contains more than one word then it must be surrounded by double quotation marks | ||
| - | - **Audience** - select one from the drop-down menu | ||
| - | - **Abstract** - you can copy and paste from Amazon, WorldCat, or the publisher’s website; clear all formatting when done (highlight text and click that white eraser icon) | ||
| - | - Sometimes you may notice that the **Title** of a book contains weird formatting or is missing punctuation - please fix this to the correct title! (you can fix it by updating the title field in the '' | ||
| - | ===== Assigning subject keywords ===== | ||
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| - | [[http:// | ||
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| - | Use OCLC Classify to help you assign subject keywords to books. Use the **FAST Subject Headings**. | ||
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| - | For example, the [[http:// | ||
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| - | ===== Assigning genre keywords and other fields===== | ||
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| - | If you have any suggestions/ | ||
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| - | Currently, we recommend using the following resources to help you out (remember: you don't have to reinvent the wheel - many others have already assigned metadata to these books!) | ||
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| - | * [[http:// | ||
| - | * Public library catalogues, i.e. [[https:// | ||
| - | * in VPL's catalogue, search for an individual title, then click on the '' | ||
| - | * Evergreen - you can search for a title in Evergreen and view the MARC records created by many other libraries | ||
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