Authority Records
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Subject: [CDSNews] Reminder: non-Latin Data in Name Authority Records
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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
Washington DC 20541-4912 USA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (202) 707-6100 Fax: (202) 707-1334 http://www.loc.gov/cds/
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