If folks are looking for ideas of work without books, cleanup is at the top of my list. I’d recommend reviewing the list of frequently misromanized words on the wiki<http://rascat.pbworks.com/w/page/109347700/Romanization%20FAQ> and checking which records in your local catalog need correcting (and ideally, fixing them in OCLC, too). If there’s enough interest, perhaps we can split the list among a number of folks; many hands make light work…
I managed to bring my copy of Even Shoshan home, so if anyone has questions, please feel free to reach out. Kol tuv and good health to all, Jasmin From: Heb-naco <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Yossi Galron via Heb-naco Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 1:31 PM To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <[email protected]> Subject: [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals From: Yaniv Levi <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Rini Goldsmith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Ahava Cohen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Bcc: Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:19:16 +0000 Subject: RE: [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals Dear Heidi and Neil, A short update from the NLI on the issues rasied below (not sure it helps but might). 1. Hebrew books (HB): At NLI we have already linked our bib records to the scanned books in HB, this means we have a full standard record for all the books scanned in HB. The issue is that our records are cataloged in Hebrew and do not have transliteration and the general fields (3xx, 5xx) are in Hebrew. Not sure if that can help american libraries but If there is a library that this information is of intrest to her we will be happy to share. In addition we are planing to share the records through the Alma Community Zone (CZ) and are in contact with ExL on that matter but the same limitation will apply. 2. Other digitized collection: the work above is not limited to HB, but also to other digitized books worldwida, including the YBC (Yiddish book center) collection, Libraries in Germany, Yizkor book (NYPL), Internet archive and others. But again same limitation apply. I would mention that we are working with Google to scan any out of copy rights book in our collection (till now over 40'000) and that will also be avalible. 3. NACO “provisional” vernacular - at NLI we have connected our authority file to LC, so we have the official hebrew form for the LC forms. This is not true for all authors in LC, but only to authors that published books in Hebrew. You can see the infomration in VIAF.org. If this can help with a jump start will be happy to share. 4. Wikidata authorities for Hebrew personal names - the VIAF information is merged with wikidata, but any additions to Wikidata will be welcome. BR, Yaniv Levi-Korem Head of Technical Services National Library of Israel E.J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, P.O.B. 39105; Jerusalem 91390, Israel (E) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (C) 972-52-8600-747 (W) 972-2-6586424 From: Heb-naco <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Heidi G Lerner via Heb-naco <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 1:57 AM To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel; Neil Manel Frau-Cortes Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals Neil, That is a great idea if there are Hebrew catalogers whose institutions really don't have things to do.I am working in tandem with my unit on a variety of different projects, some Hebrew dependent, some different projects that have been sitting around that we now are able to tackle because of a lack of print resources. At the present time I have more than enough to keep me busy but perhaps there are others who would jump at the opportunity. I do suspect that managers' will need to be involved in these explorations. Best, Heidi Heidi G. Lerner Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Metadata Dept. Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 ph: 650-725-9953 fax: 650-725-1120 e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Heb-naco <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:21 AM To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals 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]<http://[email protected]/> ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405
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