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Duplicate record sweep

Near-identical catalogue records surfaced before they multiply.

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Collections Trust, Spectrum 5.1

Cataloguing gathers information about an object from multiple sources and cross references it, because an object usually has more than one story, and more than one record.

https://collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum/procedures/cataloguing-spectrum-5-0/
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Scoring runs on character overlap after normalisation, so a typo, a swapped word order and a missing accent all still pair up. Nothing merges automatically. A merge that turns out to be wrong is very expensive to undo, and a review queue costs one person ten minutes a week.

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