Notes about the Bibliographic Schema in the Database
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Bibliographic fingerprint
Evergreen creates a fingerprint for each bib record, which can be found in the fingerprint column of the biblio.record_entry table.
This fingerprint is used to group together different bib records in a Group Formats & Editions search in the public catalog.
The bibliographic fingerprint incorporates several subfields to distinguish between different items, including:
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$n and $p from MARC title fields to better distinguish among records of the same series that may share the same title but have a different part.
The bibliographic fingerprint distinguishes among the fields contributing to the fingerprint. This helps the system distinguish between a record for the movie Blue Steel and another record for the book Blue written by Danielle Steel.