Before this change, Esploro records were being deduped into Alma records, sometimes leading to confusion with what we actually own. This was happening because they were only looking at the Title field for deduping. To prevent this, we have changed this parameter from false to true:
Control Ability to Ignore Title-Based Link Resolving
Alma enables institutions to prevent “Fuzzy match” attempts based on title-only matches when patrons search for resources. By default, this option is disabled, and in instances that the URL had “Identifier + Author + Title” and there was no match on the “Identifier + Author”, Alma tries to find a match by “Title”. However, when the option is enabled, patrons no longer receive wrong search results based on title matches only. This option is controlled by the following customer parameter: avoid_fuzzy_search_resolving.
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Access Configuration menu > Resources > General > Other settings.
- Locate the customer parameter: avoid_fuzzy_search_resolving and set it to True.
By default, the parameter value is set to False, indicating that Alma continues with its regular behavior.
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Select Save.
Enabling the “Avoid Fuzzy Search Resolving” option has the following impact:
- Patrons searching for resources that have identifiers as part of their descriptive metadata no longer receive false negative search results based on title-only matches.
- The functionality ensures a more accurate search experience for patrons by avoiding fuzzy matches.