Library metadata optimization

Library Metadata Optimization

• Central Knowledge Base
• Authority Vocabularies
• Collaborative Cataloging
• Metadata Schemas
• Authorized Administration

Integrate and Synchronize

Unlock the full potential of your library with seamless integration that easily and effortlessly allows for the synchronization of electronic resources. Alma library metadata optimization ensures that accurate, up-to-date data is easily accessible. The Centralized Knowledge Base (CKB) optimizes the user experience by enhancing efficiency and streamlining workflows. This process ultimately improves resource accessibility and user satisfaction all while streamlining library workflows.

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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. Alma’s library metadata optimization ensures users find the right materials quickly, which streamlines cataloging workflows and supports an efficient library management system. Experience improved data quality and user satisfaction with Alma.

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

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Share and Enrich

Enhance your library's efficiency with collaborative cataloging. Improve the library experience by sharing and accessing bibliographic records within the Alma Community Zone. Have the ability to enrich the user experience and optimize library operations. Libraries benefit from collective expertise and library metadata optimization to reduce duplicate effort. Additionally libraries benefit from creating high-quality bibliographic records and accelerate resource availability.

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Streamline and Enhance

Be more precise in your cataloging and benefit from the ability to leverage a wide variety of metadata schemas and cataloguing formats supported by Alma library metadata optimization. . Enrich the library experience by providing users with accurate and easily searchable information to streamline workflows. Alma supports a variety of formats, including 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. Alma allows you the ability and authority to define which roles (e.g. cataloger, acquisitions librarian) have specific access rights to the data and library resources. This added layer of security helps to ensure that users can only perform actions that are assigned to their specific role. This ensures that all users only perform actions that are appropriate and allowed for their assigned responsibilities.

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