Elevate resource management

Become empowered with accurate and customizable metadata, ensuring precise cataloging and resource discovery. Robust tools and a collaborative approach allow for tailored metadata schemas and authority control, enhancing data quality and interoperability. You will streamline end-to-end workflows and maintain a well-organized library collection with Alma’s advanced metadata management capabilities.

Optimized Metadata

Integrate and Synchronize

Unlock the full potential of your library and benefit from seamless integration and synchronization of electronic resources, ensuring accurate, up-to-date data. The Centralized Knowledge Base (CKB) enhances efficiency, streamlines workflows, and provides an optimized user experience – ultimately improving resource accessibility and user satisfaction.

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Standardize and Maintain

Improve your library's cataloging accuracy with Authority Vocabularies. By maintaining consistent and standardized headings, you can improve searchability and resource discovery. This ensures users find the right materials quickly, streamlines cataloging workflows, and supports efficient library management. Experience improved data quality and user satisfaction.

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Share and Enrich

Enhance your library's efficiency with collaborative cataloging. By sharing and accessing bibliographic records within the Alma Community Zone you can enrich the user experience and optimize library operations. Libraries benefit from collective expertise and up-to-date metadata to reduce duplicate effort, create high-quality bibliographic records, and accelerate resource availability.

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Streamline and Enhance

Make your cataloging more precise by leveraging the wide variety of metadata schemas and cataloguing formats supported by Alma. Streamline workflows, support interoperability, and provide users with accurate, easily searchable information for an enriched library experience. Alma supports the MARC 21 (with RDA extensions) UNIMARC, KORMARC, and CNMARC bibliographic, holdings and authority formats, as well as schemas such as Dublin Core (including all terms in the dcterms namespace), MODS, and ETD-MS.

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Manage and Monitor

Ensure security and data integrity through controlled role-based permission access to your metadata and resources. You can define which roles (e.g. cataloger, acquisitions librarian) have specific access rights, ensuring that users can only perform actions appropriate to their assigned responsibilities.