Hello to all -
 
Question - we are in the final stages of our conversion, and need some
advice.  We have a field, Object Name, in which a fairly high percentage of
the terms in that field are preferred AAT terms (I'd be willing to bet at
least 97-98% are preferred and/or alternate AAT terms). I've mapped this
field to the attributes section of the database.  However, it's understood
that this data cannot 100% be accurately linked to the AAT during
conversion, since one can't be sure if, for instance, "painting" links to
the correct facet of the AAT (i.e. is it a process/technique?, an object?
etc.), which leaves me with the job of linking the terms to the AAT myself.
However, I do have the option of purchasing a fairly expensive, specially
designed utility to assist me in this.
 
My question is this - have any of you had this problem?  How easy/hard is it
to link terms from the local authority, to the AAT? How? Is it a case of
needing to individually link every 6,000 occurrances of "screen print" one
at a time, for each record where the term occurs? Or, is there an easier
way?
 
Should I buy the utility?
 
Thanks for any/all responses, recommendations, opinions, etc.
Allison
 
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