<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Nina is quite right about the fence currently set around dcrm records (representing a policy decision). That certainly helps, a lot--and is an encouragement to use dcrm rules well beyond the old traditional "hand-press period" confines, if you think your work is worth preserving; and anyway, post-1800/1820 books have plenty of tricks to play, often even subtler than those of their predecessors.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">In Connexion one can see IRs simply by going to Cataloging/Show/All Institution Records <i>or</i> My Institution Records <i>or</i> Institution Records for ... . But that's a small subset of the records represented by the holdings. First Search provides links to individual catalogs by way of the "Libraries worldwide that own item", which can make for an hour's possibly instructive tedium. Even so, this doesn't address the problem of minimally judged records (so to call them) and newly discovered entity distinctions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">The problem is that of producing something that is at once sturdy and discoverable, and that has some slight chance of remaining so through the exuberant proliferation of discovery systems that seek to simplify, and perhaps oversimplify, the complexities inherent in complex phenomena (stones on the path behind, not crumbs: those birds are hungry).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Peroration: Our business is that of sorting out the pathways to the most favorable signal-to-noise ratio in cultural transmissions--it's unglamorous, like bridge maintenance.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: 401-863-1187</font></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace" target="_blank">Richard_Noble@Br</a><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">></span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Schneider, Nina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nschneider@humnet.ucla.edu" target="_blank">nschneider@humnet.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Others can correct me if I’ve been working under false pretenses, but I’m under the impression that OCLC won’t touch a record if it’s coded dcrmX (X being whichever module is used: books, serials, graphics) in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">For those working in Connexion, I believe there is a way to search through GLIMIR clusters to see IR’s (see Client Help>GLIMIR>What is in the index). As to the possibility of displaying IR’s, RBMS would likely
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Nina M. Schneider<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Rare Books Librarian<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">William Andrews Clark Memorial Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jason W. Dean<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 27, 2015 9:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] DCRM(B) and WorldCat<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After Richard’s statements about WorldCat and DCRM(B), I have some thoughts to send into the DCRM ether…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Would it be worth trying to bring concerns about the loss of enhancements done under DCRM(B) in the duplicate detection and resolution process that OCLC runs on the WorldCat database to OCLC’s
attention? It seems to me that there is a decent possibility of good work being lost in that process.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This brings to mind a wider issue… when I was in a previous workplace that was a part of RLIN, and now RLG, we added institutional records to the master record in WorldCat, which is a slight
improvement – but to my knowledge that institutional record is invisible to the person searching WorldCat outside the Connexion client. I’ve seen a myriad of institutional records in WorldCat that use DCRM(B). This speaks to Richard’s concerns in the second
and third paragraphs of his reply. I know one can click through the WorldCat interface and (assuming it links to the correct index) see the institution’s record, but would it be advantageous to have the institutional record exposed as well?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Look forward to your comments – thank you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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