Hi all, There's a slim chance I asked this list about serials cataloging last time I poked at it, but, I've started looking at it again and wondered if you could help.
The time has come to seriously consider adding both multi-volume works and serials cataloging to Open Library, and knowing that it's a notorious cataloging issue, I wanted to reach out to learn from your experience and insight on this issue. I've been doing a survey of somewhat random journals (ones I like + science-y + literary + bookshop visual scans) to see if I can isolate any consistent fields. Along with the recent "Minimum Viable Record" post I did on the OL blog [1], I'm searching for a minimum set of fields we could enlist to describe serials somewhat generically. Seems like there are: Title, Date, Volume, Issue, but non of these are used consistently, as I'm sure you're aware. I've looked at the LoC Serials Cataloging Issues site [2], which is uber technical. I did however find a useful "Catalogers Cheat Sheet" (PDF) which was a good overview of MARC handling stuff [3]. So, I'm wondering if any of you happen to be serials cataloger, or know of anyone who might be interested to talk with Open Library about how we might do this well... Or, if you know any useful web-based resources, I'd love links! Cheers, george [1] http://blog.openlibrary.org/2011/04/11/minimum-viable-record/ [2] http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/issues.html [3] PDF: http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/pdf/CheatSheetforCSR.pdf _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
