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AUTHORITY CONTROL

Chapter 2. AUTHORITY CONTROL

   

 


Understanding The Authorize Command

The Authorize command is a comprehensive three-stage process combining the CASCADE, VERI and VERILEAD functions, enabling matches on every possible supported heading using one command. The system compares the field in which the heading is coded in the bibliographic record with the appropriate fields in the authority records (see How Authority Control Processing Works for details). Processing is accomplished in the following order:

Each of these processes behaves like a filter, acting only on those bibliographic headings that were not successfully validated by the previous filter.