[Koha] normalization rule - defining a matching rule

[Darla Grediagin]

Parenthesis have been a problem when matching up ISBNs if you were using the Amazon plug in.  I 
used MarcEdit and would search and destroy each comment that went with ISBNs.  I hope this helps.

Darla

Darla Grediagin
District Librarian
Bering Strait School District
Unalakleet, Alaska
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On 1/14/11 7:55 AM, Archives and Collections Society wrote:
> An expansion of Pete's email below; we have a major problem using
> "Normalization Rules" and "Normalization Checks" at
> <http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/admin/matching-rules.pl?op=edit_matching_rule&matcher_id=1>
> to compare our biblio records with those of LoC (Library of Congress) for
> staged records.
>
> Please note that we have searched the Koha docs; if this is a bug, please
> advise.
>
> Take the following examples:
>
> LoC ...   020 // $a 9004158634 (hbk. : alk. paper)
> Ours ...  020 // $a 9004158634
>
> LoC ...   020 // $a 0870213601 : $c $22.95
> Ours ...  020 // $a 0870213601
>
> Koha does *not* match these. (the paranthetical comment in the first
> example appears "legal" under MARC; the colon in the second appears to be
> contrary to MARC definitions.)
>
> The Koha admin page above gives two possibilities: (a) defining the
> "Normalization rule:" for the matchpoint (this appears to be matcher.pm
> which looks for ISBN and the date field in 008), or (b) adding a "match
> check" which might add flexibility. We have played unsuccessfully with
> these for a few days now.
>
> Questions:  Is there some documentation on this anywhere?  If not, has
> anyone here got a solution?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
> Tired old sys-admin (now getting slightly frustrated)
>
>
>
> At 01:57 PM 1/10/2011 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> Can someone please point me to more info about normalization rules in the
>> context of defining a matching rule in Koha?
>>
>> Scenario:
>> Our set of books currently in Koha was imported from Marc that we created
>> using MarcEdit (mapping from an Excel spreadsheet). As a result our Marc
>> information is likely "not as good" as that of LOC for any given book.  So
>> now we are trying to "overlay", or "overwrite" as many of the biblio records
>> in our Koha database with (hopefully) "better" MARC records from LOC (or
>> wherever).
>>
>> Problem:
>> When I do a bulk z39.50 lookup on ISBN numbers (using MarcEdit), the ISBN
>> numbers I receive from LOC often contain trailing text (like "paperback", or
>> ":").  When I stage these records and try to match the staged records on
>> ISBN in Koha this trailing text prevents many matches.
>>
>> I am assuming that it is the job of some sort of normalization routine to
>> force a match, however I am not able to find any documentation or examples
>> describing how one would define his/her own normalization routine.
>>
>> Can someone please provide an example?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pete.
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