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Abes offers a range of tools and methods for diagnosing data quality and correcting anomalies, used on a daily basis by professionals for their own quality projects, or for retrospective reporting operations.

Abes offers a range of tools and methods for diagnosing data quality and correcting anomalies, used on a daily basis by professionals for their own quality projects, or for retrospective reporting operations.

In methodological terms, the CERCLES Sudoc and CERCLES BACON schemes illustrate the possibilities offered by networking to optimise data quality.

The QualiMarc application


The professional application QualiMarc is available to professional users of Sudoc to analyze the quality of bibliographic records produced with WinIBW.

QualiMarc is available free of charge:

  • submit bibliographic records for diagnosis, individually or in batches
  • select a type of analysis (rapid, complete or targeted)
  • obtain a precise diagnosis of the quality of each bibliographic record: errors to be corrected, enhancements to be made
  • switch to the WinIBW production tool for enrichments
  • consult the rules governing diagnosis.

QualiMarc thus enables the network's cataloguing community Sudoc, whatever its level of cataloguing, to produce quality data for the French ESR.

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The CIRCLE device Sudoc


The CERCLES system - Correction and Enrichment by the Higher Education Corpus Network - is designed to help the member institutions of the Sudoc network to invest in a structured way (monitoring framework, calendar, tools) in order to provide the necessary enrichments to the records of certain corpora.

This system meets the needs of many libraries which, rather than organizing their own bibliographic record enrichment projects based on the corpus acquired, share quality projects for the benefit of all the establishments in the network, thus creating a veritable "virtuous circle". 

Within the CERCLES system, itAbes ensures :

  • the coordination of work sites between establishments
  • logistical and methodological assistance provided to experts from the institutions
  • promotion of establishments involved in data improvement Sudoc
  • the relay of information concerning the progress of the worksites

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CERCLES quality device