v. (also normalise)to transform data to a canonical formWisser and Dean 2013, 565The use of attributes that seek to normalize or standardize information for machine manipulation (@normal, @langcode, @scriptcode, etc.) also deserves more attention.Abrams et al. 2019, 462The study data also suggest that the system’s current configuration to index entries in the “date” field as text strings is confusing and unhelpful to researchers hoping to use the date facets. Instead, common date formats should be recognized, normalized, and parsed for effective scoping or faceting.Anderson 2021, 131Following the initial testing of normalization and extraction approaches, we solidified a machine-learning pipeline that automatically converted PDFs to plain text, normalized the documents, removed files with significant noise, extracted entities and determined the language of the documents, and then classified the documents and percentage of certainty for each class.Eckard, Gadelha, and Shallcross 2022, 408A University of Michigan School of Information graduate student employee who was already an accomplished Python developer helped the archivists move from the abstract, generalized tasks presented in the Python tutorials to the highly specific and practical task of normalizing EAD data (such as dates, subject terms, physical facet descriptions, etc.).Allison-Bunnell 2022, 573The initial body of EAC-CPF records for SNAC was created by taking EAD from EAD aggregators and data from other sources, extracting creator metadata, and normalizing that metadata to make it consistent and useful.Gilbert et al. 2023, 628Staff continue to normalize authorities and plan to add navigational aids between Profiles in Science, NLM Digital Collections, manuscript collection finding aids, and broad NLM discovery services to improve user access.
