Hi Neil, These all sound great, but can your teleworkers work on Hebrew records? Merging takes a long time. That project alone could keep a teleworker employed for a long time.
Todros On Monday, March 30, 2020, Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I hope you are well and keeping safe and isolated. > > One of my big projects at work has been generating tasks for teleworkers, > particularly for catalogers that are print-dependent and new to remote > work, and now find themselves almost idle. > > I have a proposal: can we find things we could invest time in, as a group? > If nothing else, I would like to start this discussion. > > Potential ideas -- > > > > > 1. > > Hebrewbooks bib records - unlike HathiTrust, Hebrewbooks does not set > high standards for its metadata. We could revisit the existing records and > enrich them. At least for now, these are open and available for all, they > appear on WorldCat and our patrons make use of them constantly. We could > take advantage of this less-than-ideal situation. > 2. > > We could add links to existing print bibs pointing to Hebrewbooks or > other digital repositories (‘also available online...”). > 3. > > NACO authorities with “provisional” vernacular - in many cases > authority files have multiple vernacular Hebrew and Yiddish versions of > names. Some of them would require having the item in hand, but some are > just mistakes and typos added programmatically. > 4. > > Wikidata authorities for Hebrew personal names. Anybody can do this, > it doesn’t need NACO clearance. It has a definite impact on LinkedData > environments, it links to VIAF, etc. > 5. > > Work on your Merge independence, either as an individual or as an > institution. We are not sure OCLC will be able to send us lots of Hebrew > examples, but you have some time to browse Connexion and find sets you > would want to merge. > 6. > > Other ideas? > > > > > Neil > > -- > > *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his) > > *Senior Catalog Librarian* > > *Supervisor for Non-Roman and Special Collections Cataloging* > > > University of Maryland > > 2200 McKeldin Library > > College Park, MD 20742 > > Phone (301) 405-9337 > > [email protected] > > ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405 > > >
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