[DCRM-L] BYU's 1st RDA/DCRMB record: WorldCat & rare book data

[Dooley,Jackie]

Regarding Liz’s last comment about OCLC and the desirability of making all rare book information more accessible … OCLC is currently working very hard toward this goal. Some of you may recall that OCLC’s Matt Goldner convened a working group of rare book and archival cataloging experts two years ago to study this in the context of WorldCat Local; both the wg’s report and OCLC response are on the RBMS Bib Standards Committee’s website at http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/index.shtml (scroll to bottom of the page).

 

It may be fair to say that display and indexing of full data from cataloging members was the working group’s #1 priority—and of course the most difficult one to achieve, since storing bibliographic information beyond the master record is the polar opposite of the long-standing WorldCat paradigm. Nevertheless, much work is going on internally to define the MARC bib fields that it’ll be possible (when implemented) to retain in LHRs (library holdings records).

 

A good conversation about this issue occurred on this listserv earlier this year.

 

Jackie Dooley

Program Officer

OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership

 

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Elizabeth O'Keefe
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 4:48 PM
To: List, DCRM Revision Group
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] FW: BYU's 1st RDA/DCRMB record

 

Analysis of this sort would be very valuable, but it would be difficult to do in Open WorldCat, which is where most of our users (as opposed to catalogers) search. The results would be skewed because many DCRM(B) records are loaded as Institution Records (IRs), which are invisible to users of Open WorldCat. There is a similar problem with trying to analyse use of copy-specific information, such as provenance, bindings, watermarks, annotations, etc., which is also restricted to the IRs. OCLC would do the dcrm community a great service if they could come up with ways to make all rare book information more accessible, whether it takes the form of copy-specific data, or the enhanced descriptions prescribed by DCRM(B).

 

Liz O'Keefe

 

 

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>>> "Schaffner,Jennifer" <schaffnj at oclc.org> 8/27/2010 11:50 AM >>>

This community discussion is very helpful and enlightening. Y’all are kicking up important “pickles,” er, issues. 

 

I, too, was ‘privileged’ to hear Karen Calhoun’s talk. It occurs to me that – facing RDA - it will be helpful for our community to have solid evidence and studies of use, especially users’ use (and not just our own use), of dcrm records. Does anyone have analytics of catalog use, especially analytics of successful searches (from catalogs or from the web) that land on dcrm records? Does anyone have weblogs or search logs that are sufficiently granular to demonstrate which fields are sought, used, and found successfully? (As many of you know, I’ve been chasing these for two years or so.)

 

Rumors of OCLC Research’s interest in facilitating discussion with our community of preference for dcrm records are quite true. It was Glenn Patton’s idea. Jackie and I had offered to bring Glenn to RBMS at ALA Midwinter. The offer stands.

 

Please contact me offline!

 

Jennifer

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Jennifer Schaffner

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