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- ISBN, ISSN, LCCN, OCLC - non-numeric characters are removed
- Title - diacritics are removed and the case is ignored
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Title Match Comparison
- Field <245> <a> is considered for Title Match Comparison
- Diacritics and the blank spaces are removed from the title. All titles are converted to lower case before comparison
- Words "A" , "AN" and "THE" not considered for title match irrespective of their place/location in the sentence
Exception
- Matching copies from a single institution are not compared. It is up to the submitting institutions to only submit one copy of matching items to SCSB as “Shared,” and the rest as “Open
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- When two items have a single number match but having different bib levels; one is a monograph and the other a serial. That is when the material type does not match, the matching algorithm is not applied
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- When the CGD of an item is changed manually to Shared using the SCSB UI, the matching algorithm is not run on the item. This means that there could be two items with the Shared CGD.
Reports
The following reports are generated after each run of the matching algorithm:
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