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Purpose:  This page describes data value crosswalks and data element mapping for the migration of Vendor data from Aleph to Alma.  This video from ExLibris provides instructions to complete the migration form that we need to complete prior to the automated migration of Aleph data to Alma.  The decisions we'll need to make about vendor data migration are outlined on this page.

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Crosswalks: Aleph code values to Alma code values

The following tables describe This section describes the crosswalk of Aleph code values for key vendor data elements to the target Alma code value.

  • Vendor status: Aleph vendor statuses are all migrated to Alma as Active, except for NA, which is migrated to the status Inactive.  Question
    • Questions for local Duke team
    - is
      • Is there anything we want to ask ExLibris to do for our vendors with a status of GI (gift), such as put a note to indicate that this vendor had a status of GI in Aleph? 
    Also, how to handle the  
      • There are 1011 vendors that have a null status - these will migrate as Active.  Is that OK or do we need to do any cleanup to make sure those are all active vendors? 




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Data Mapping

This table describes the Alma target field for each Vendor field in Aleph. Note:  Much of this content was copied from Harvard's data mapping guides, last updated in 2018. Please consider this page a draft until the Duke team verifies that this mapping information is current and concurs with Duke's migration decisions.


Aleph Field

Alma Field

Navigation Instructions

Additional Information

Open Date

Created on

More Information


Update Date

Last updated on

More Information


Cataloger

Last updated by

More Information


Vendor Code

Code

Vendor General Details 


EDI For Order Only

doesn't migrate to Alma



Vendor EDI Code

EDI Code

EDI Information


Vendor EDI Type

EDI Type

EDI Information


Additional Code

Financial Sys. code

Vendor General Details 


Vendor Name

Name

Vendor General Details 


Vendor Status

StatusVendor General Details 

Vendor status: Aleph vendor statuses are all migrated to Alma as Active, except for NA, which is migrated to the status Inactive.

Current values in use in Aleph as of 10/2/23:

Aleph vendor status valueCount
AC    6454
GI    26
NA   1154
null1011

Vendor Language

Language

Vendor General Details

Per the migration guide, Alma supports ISO 639-1 language codes. Aleph language codes, such as Patron Language (Z303-CON-LNG) and Vendor Language (Z70-CON-LNG) are converted to this ISO standard by the migration.  Here are current counts of languages in Aleph as of 10/2/23:

Aleph Z70_CON_LNG
(Vendor Language)
Count 

ISO 639-1

Code value

ENG8604en
FRE11fr
GER12de
HEB2he
ITA11it
POR1pt
RUS2ru
null2

Country

doesn't migrate to Alma


Note, this is in the Contact Information Address for the vendor.

Material Type

doesn't migrate to Alma



Note

Note

Notes


Account No. (M)

Account Code

Vendor Account

From the documentation: "To retain the source information regarding the accounts usage, the migration sets the description field of the Alma account as follows:

  • For Account No. (M), the description contains Account (M).
  • For Account No. (S), the description contains Account (S).
  • If both Account No. (M) and Account No. (S) are the same, one account is created and the description contains Account (M/S)."

Account No. (S)

Account Code

Vendor Account


Vendor's Bank Acct.

Description

Vendor Account

"To retain the source information regarding the accounts usage, the migration sets the description field of the Alma account as follows:

  • For the Vendor’s Bank Account, the description contains General Account."

Currency 1

Currencies

Vendor General Details

Alma requires at least one currency for the vendor. If no currency was found in Aleph, the currency for the migrated Alma vendor contains the Aleph local currency defined for the local_currency parameter in the aleph_start file.

Data pulled from production on 8/7/23:

Z70 Currency 1 ValueCountIs this an ISO Value?
CAD3Y
EUR19Y
GBP8Y
NZD1Y
USD8589Y
null

2

N - will be set to USD at migration

Currency 2

Currencies

Vendor General Details

Data pulled from production on 8/7/23:

Z70 Currency 1 ValueCountIs this an ISO Value?
ARS4Y
AUD54Y
BRL3Y
CAD131Y
CHF13Y
CLP1Y
CNY43Y
COP2Y
CZK1Y
DKK13Y
EUR398Y
GBP301Y
HKD15Y
HUF1Y
IDR1Y
ILS13Y
INR10Y
JPY29Y
KRW17Y
MAD1Y
MXN3Y
NGN1Y
NOK4Y
NZD8Y
PKR1Y
PLN3Y
SEK14Y
SGD2Y
TRL6N
TWD5Y
USD30Y
ZAR20Y
null7474

Currency 3

Currencies

Vendor General Details

Data pulled from production on 8/7/23:

Z70 Currency 1 ValueCountIs this an ISO Value?
CHF1Y
DKK1Y
EUR8Y
GBP5Y
HKD6Y
JPY1Y
NOK1Y
TWD1Y
USD1Y
ZAR1Y
null8596

Currency 4

Currencies

Vendor General Details

Data pulled from production on 8/7/23:

Z70 Currency 1 ValueCountIs this an ISO Value?
CAD1Y
null8621

Terms Percent

Vendor Account


Order Delivery

doesn't migrate to Alma



Letter Format

doesn't migrate to Alma



Letter Send Method

doesn't migrate to Alma



List Format

doesn't migrate to Alma



List Send Method

doesn't migrate to Alma



Contact 1

Notes


Contact information: Aleph vendor contact information (Contact 1 -5) is migrated to Notes related to the vendor.

Contact 2

Notes



Contact 3

Notes



Contact 4

Notes



Contact 5

Notes



Mail Attachment




Delivery 1 (ACQ)




Delivery Delay 1

The Z70 delivery delay 1 will determine the Account level expected receiving interval for that vendor account in Alma when ordering material from that vendor/vendor account.

Delivery 2 (ACQ)

doesn't migrate to Alma



Delivery Delay 2

doesn't migrate to Alma



Delivery 3 (ACQ)

doesn't migrate to Alma



Delivery Delay 3

doesn't migrate to Alma



Delivery 4 (SER)

Delivery and Claim Information

Vendor Account


Delivery Delay 4

doesn't migrate to Alma



Delivery 5 (SER)

doesn't migrate to Alma



Delivery Delay 5

doesn't migrate to Alma



AddressAddressesContact Information
CityAddressesContact Information
CountryAddressesContact Information
Postal CodeAddressesContact Information
Phone NumberPhone NumbersContact Information
Fax Number Phone NumbersContact Information
EmailEmail AddressesContact Information
NotesNotesNotes

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Current values in use in Aleph as of 10/2/23.  Do we need to look at the 1011 that have a null vendor status?  I've posted a question to the Alma Basecamp to confirm whether null status codes will migrate as Active. 

Aleph vendor status valueCount
AC    6454
GI    26
NA   1154
null1011


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Vendor Data that doesn't migrate to Alma

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