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Cornell's documentation (certainly in the area of print serials) is notably more robust than Columbia's, and sharing documentation and its upkeep would be very useful, although there are limits to what can be standardized between the two institutions.
Automation & Technology: Batch Processing
To investigate and learn what batch functionalities and record load features are built in to ALMA and see how easily existing record load workflows at Cornell and Columbia can be expected to migrate.
Leaving established workflows in place, jointly experiment implementing MARC services with new vendors where practicable.
Explore the use of WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager to identify record harvesting for HathiTrust and other record sets.
To make a joint data map/dictionary of terms and MARC fields used in conjunction with record identifications for extracts between the two CULs.
Work with other 2CUL TSI groups in areas of functional overlap to coordinate phase II efforts.