Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-20 Thread ya'aQov
*Lars, Thank you. Which online thesaurus are you matching these names with (when you declare them mistakes)? if an online procedure, please be specific; how can VIAF benefit, it at all, from *Project Runeberg? Ya'aqov Ziso

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-20 Thread Roy Tennant
Any errors in WorldCat can be reported to bibcha...@oclc.org. We take record quality seriously, but as you can imagine when you take in records from thousands of sources around the world, this is a constant struggle. We have our own quality control efforts, but individuals reporting problems are al

[CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-20 Thread Lars Aronsson
This big mess of broken bibliographic records that started out as Google Book Search, and then spread to Hathi Trust, is now also spreading to OCLC Worldcat. I find the same kind of misspellings and misconceptions in all three places. So far, the VIAF author names seem to be more correct, but mayb

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [LIBR-FAC] bad news about ERIC documents

2012-08-20 Thread Cindy Harper
Sarah Park - This is from the message our govdocs librarian sent out last week... Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian, Colgate This bad news about full text ERIC documents came through govdoc-l today: "The full text documents for ERIC have been temporarily disabled due to a privacy concern. We apolog

Re: [CODE4LIB] ERIC PDF download

2012-08-20 Thread Patrick Berry
We've heard that there was a "privacy issue" with the documents and they took large chunks down because they didn't know the extent of the problem. If student data was exposed, it will probably be a while before they can get stuff back online as they'll have to vet things before releasing them aga

[CODE4LIB] ERIC PDF download

2012-08-20 Thread Park,Go-Woon
Anybody have a trouble downloading PDF files from ERIC? This is one file I got a question about: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp;jsessionid =ahyPnLC+kVfBmQsBTn8y6w__.ericsrv002?ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED41100 5&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&_pageLabel=RecordDet

[CODE4LIB] Library data panel at SXSW

2012-08-20 Thread Klein,Max
Hello Librarian Coders I've submitted a SXSW proposal to bring our shared dream of Library 'Infotopia' to the masses, and I need your clicking help to make it happen. Vote at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/1146 (you'll have to make an account unfortunately). I'll be discussing VIAFbot (https:

[CODE4LIB] Music Discovery Requirements now available

2012-08-20 Thread Newcomer, Nara
The Music Discovery Requirements document is now available on the Music Library Association's web site. http://committees.musiclibraryassoc.org/ETSC/MDR The Music Discovery Requirements document addresses the unique needs posed by music materials which must be considered for successful discov

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get Yourself a Linked Data Piece of WorldCat to Play With

2012-08-20 Thread Karen Coyle
Richard, is there or will there be documentation for this? As an example of what might be needed, it would be good to know if the place of publication is taken from the 260 $a or the 008. It looks to me like the latter, but there is a significant difference. "New York" in the 260 $a refers to t