Deduplication / FRBR
Primo uses Deduplication and FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) processes to combine or group redundant records in the brief search results.
Dedup and FRBR settings are configured per view under Alma Configuration > Discovery > Display Configuration > Configure Views > Edit the View > Brief Results tab
More information can be found in the following Primo Knowledgebase pages :
- Understanding the Dedup and FRBR Processes (Primo VE)
- Configuring FRBR/Dedup Display Options
- Configuring the Dedup and FRBR Complete Keys in Primo VE
- Dedup and FRBR Analysis Tool for Primo VE
Prevent FRBR and/or Dedup in Discovery
Alma gives you the ability to prevent dedup/FRBR on specific records. This can be done in one of two ways : create a rule, or run a job on a set of records (the Prevent FRBR and/or Dedup in Discovery job). More information can be found in the following Primo Knowledgebase pages :
- Suppressing Groups of Records from Dedup/FRBR for Primo VE
- Manual Jobs and Their Relevant Parameters (look for Prevent FRBR and/or Dedup in Discovery under the list of jobs)
For both workflows, dedup/ FRBR suppression completed in the IZ are applied to local records only. If local records are linked in the NZ, they cannot be suppressed in the NZ unless you also create the same suppression rules in the NZ.
If there are specific NZ records for which you need Dedup or FRBR suppressed, please send an email to servicedesk@wrlc.org
In the WRLC NZ, we have two Suppress Dedup/FRBR Rules configured for the NZ-linked records in our shared catalog:
- Uniform title Bible
- IF Uniform Title (field 130 in the MARC record) contains "Bible", then suppress Dedup and FRBR
- Journal of applied behavior analysis
- IF Title contains "Journal of applied behavior analysis", then suppress Dedup
- This was configured for Salesforce case #00833444 with George Mason University
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