: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google
The JISC funded CLOCK project did some thinking around cataloguing processes
and tracking changes to statements and/or records - e.g.
http://clock.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/05/23/its-a-model-and-its-looking-good/
Not solutions of course
On 29/08/12 19:46, Michael Hopwood wrote:
Thanks for this pointer Owen.
It's a nice illustration of the fact that what users actually want (well, I know I did back when I actually
worked in large information services departments!) is something more like an intranet where the content I
find is
Hi,
On 08/27/2012 04:36 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I also assumed that Ed wasn't suggesting that we literally use github as
our platform, but I do want to remind folks how far we are from having
people friendly versioning software -- at least, none that I have seen
has felt intuitive. The features
An interesting reference is this:
High, W. M. (1990). Editing Changes to Monographic Cataloging Records in the
OCLC Database: An Analysis of the Practice in Five University Libraries. PhD
thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It's in UMI (and Heavy Trussed).
Simon
On Aug
On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:
Hi,
On 08/27/2012 04:36 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I also assumed that Ed wasn't suggesting that we literally use github as
our platform, but I do want to remind folks how far we are from having
people friendly versioning software -- at
On Aug 28, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
I seem to recall seeing a presentation a couple of years ago from someone in
the intelligence community, where they'd keep all of their intelligence, but
they stored RDF quads so they could track the source.
They'd then assign a confidence
The JISC funded CLOCK project did some thinking around cataloguing processes
and tracking changes to statements and/or records - e.g.
http://clock.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/05/23/its-a-model-and-its-looking-good/
Not solutions of course, but hopefully of interest
Owen
Owen Stephens
Owen
A week ago, I wrote:
What I have done is just to search (worldcat.org and
hathitrust.org) for some common Swedish words, and
I don't have to do this for long before some very
obvious (to a native speaker) spelling mistakes appear.
I've reported 38 errors to Hathitrust, and got feedback
that
Actually, Ed, this would not only make for a good blog post (please, so
it doesn't get lost in email space), but I would love to see a
discussion of what kind of revision control would work:
1) for libraries (git is gawdawful nerdy)
2) for linked data
kc
p.s. the Ramsay book is now showing on
Hi,
On 08/27/2012 08:49 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
Actually, Ed, this would not only make for a good blog post (please, so
it doesn't get lost in email space), but I would love to see a
discussion of what kind of revision control would work:
1) for libraries (git is gawdawful nerdy)
2) for linked
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
For MARC data, while I don't know of any examples of this, it seems like
something like CouchDB [2] and marc-in-json [3] would be a fantastic way to
make something like this available.
Great idea...and there are 4
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Actually, Ed, this would not only make for a good blog post (please, so it
doesn't get lost in email space), but I would love to see a discussion of
what kind of revision control would work:
1) for libraries (git is
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Corey A Harper corey.har...@nyu.edu wrote:
I think there's a useful distinction here. Ed can correct me if I'm
wrong, but I suspect he was not actually suggesting that Git itself be
the user-interface to a github-for-data type service, but rather that
such a
Ed, Corey -
I also assumed that Ed wasn't suggesting that we literally use github as
our platform, but I do want to remind folks how far we are from having
people friendly versioning software -- at least, none that I have seen
has felt intuitive. The features of git are great, and people have
These have to be named graphs, or at least collections of triples which
can be processed through workflows as a single unit.
In terms of LD there version needs to be defined in terms of:
(a) synchronisation with the non-bibliographic real world (i.e. Dataset
Z version X was released at time
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google
These have to be named graphs, or at least collections of triples which can
be processed through
workflows
On 28/08/12 12:07, Peter Noerr wrote:
They are not descendents of the same original, they are independent entities,
whether they are recorded as singular MARC records or collections of LD triples.
That depends on which end of the stick one grasps.
Conceptually these are descendants of the
Thanks for sharing this bit of detective work. I noticed something
similar fairly recently myself [1], but didn't discover as plausible
of a scenario for what had happened as you did. I imagine others have
noticed this network effect before as well.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Lars Aronsson
On August 22 ya'aQovwrote:
*Lars, so the wrong spelling of that Swedish author is based on your
browsing it, not on an automated procedure, or reference to an online
thesaurus. Given your Swedish resources, is there any quality control
mechanism you can suggest?
This author's name was just one
Lars,
With regards to HathiTrust and Google, HathiTrust receives bib records from
partner libraries. Google also receives bib records from partner libraries.
HathiTrust has never received bib records from Google - sometimes we
provide corrected records to them, but the flow is only one-sided. For
On 2012-08-20 22:38, Roy Tennant wrote:
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
*Lars, so the wrong spelling of that Swedish author is based on your
browsing it, not on an automated procedure, or reference to an online
thesaurus. Given your Swedish resources, is there any quality control
mechanism you can suggest?
*
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Lars Aronsson
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
*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?http://runeberg.org/%20
Ya'aqov Ziso
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