A bookmarklet based application to interface the Alma Metadata Editor with the IdRef authority Web application

ULiège Library has been working with IdRef French authority file for name and subject access since 2021. In order to improve the cataloguing workflow, we searched for a way to integrate the Alma MDE with the IdRef search and cataloguing Web application. The developed bookmarklet based application allows cataloguers to launch a search in the IdRef Web application from a bibliographic Marc21 record opened for editing in the Alma MDE, and to import the retrieved authorized form, its identifier, and URI in the record. It makes it also possible for cataloguers to easily create new authority records in the IdRef Web application by pre-filling the input fields with the metadata from the record in Alma. Moreover, cataloguers can submit requests for authority record creation, modification, or deduplication. Finally, moving to IdRef led us to change the linking method from text matching to ID matching, employing a large number of batch alignment tasks.