Fw: [CDSNews] Reminder: non-Latin Data in Name Authority Records

[Heidi Lerner]

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Subject: [CDSNews] Reminder: non-Latin Data in Name Authority Records


                          Library of Congress

                             News from CDS


Reminder:  non-Latin Data in Name Authority Records

As previously announced, MDS- Name Authority records will be enhanced with 
non-Latin script data in 4XX fields and selected notes beginning June 1, 
2008, (see earlier announcements at 
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonroman_announce.pdf and 
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html for additional 
information.)   An additional FAQ related to the project will be posted at 
http://www.loc.gov/aba/ shortly.

An effort to automatically pre-populate existing authority records with 
non-Latin references by OCLC, Inc. will also begin in early June 2008.  The 
initial rate of pre-population will be limited to several hundred records 
per week, and will grow to a rate of approximately 25,000 records per week. 
Note that other clean-up projects that have recently increased the volume of 
name authority records (http://www.loc.gov/cds/notices/2008-02-14.pdf ) will 
be suspended during this pre-population effort. It is estimated that 
approximately 400,000 pre-population records will be distributed over a 
number of months.

CDS is making available a file of name authority test records containing 
non-Latin script data.   The file of 110 test records can be found on the 
Library of Congress rs7 server under the /emds/test subdirectory with file 
names of names.nonlatintest.records for the MARC 8 version and 
names.nonlatintest.records.utf8 for the UTF8 version.

Questions concerning these records can be directed to:

Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

May 12, 2008

         Library of Congress  Cataloging Distribution Service
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