Karen Coyle's posting caught my eye because our Network has been dealing
with an increase in reported ISBN problems lately. When we implemented
book covers and reviews in our public catalog (linking by ISBN), we
began to receive reports from patrons of mis-matches and double-matches
of titles
Amy Hart wrote:
Karen Coyle's posting caught my eye because our Network has been dealing
with an increase in reported ISBN problems lately. When we implemented
book covers and reviews in our public catalog (linking by ISBN), we
began to receive reports from patrons of mis-matches and
You think there are no wrong ISBNs in any cataloger-assigned isbns in
marc records? As someone who works with ISBNs in cataloger created marc
records, I assure you there are.
Perfection is not an attainable goal. Which, indeed, should not stop us
from exersizing quality control and
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
You think there are no wrong ISBNs in any cataloger-assigned isbns in
marc records? As someone who works with ISBNs in cataloger created marc
records, I assure you there are.
Actually, for the OpenLibrary project there was a compare done between
Amazon data and LC
I also want to say that this discussion seems to focus on library data vs.
publisher data, as if it is either-or. It isn't.
{snip}
I also think that we can increase the utility of these data sources by
agreeing on some points of connection. If only our energy would go into that
instead of arguing
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Perfection is not an attainable goal. Which, indeed, should
not stop us from exersizing quality control and improvement.
But the way we do that is by being honest about the quality
of what we've got, that it's not perfect, that it will never
be perfect, but that we
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