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Cleanup and Deduplication of an International Bibliographic Database.

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Toney, Stephen R. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1992

Describes a project that improved the quality of BCIN, the bibliographic database of the Conservation Information Network, by correcting data fields and removing duplicate records. The database is described, deduplication theory is discussed and relevant literature is reviewed, algorithm development and testing is described, and results of…

Descriptors: Algorithms, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Error Correction

Measuring the Performance of a Merging Algorithm: Mismatches, Missed-Matches, and Overlap in Israel's Union List.

Peer reviewed

Meir, Daniel D.; Lazinger, Susan S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998

Reports on a survey measuring the performance of a merging algorithm used to generate the now-defunct ULM (Union List of Monographs) file for ALEPH, Israel's research library network. Discusses automatic detection and merging of duplicate bibliographic records, problems created by lack of a standard for Hebrew spelling, and methods for measuring…

Descriptors: Algorithms, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Data Processing