[DCRM-L] FW: Controlling More Headings in WorldCat

[dooleyj]

Response from Glenn Patton:

Yes, IRs are excluded since, as Dorothy notes, you can¹t control headings in
an IR.  Ryan is correct that LCGFT is the only set of genre terms that is
affected.  GSFAD is available in MARC and we make them available in the
Terminologies Service but those files are not used in controlling.
 
--Glenn
 
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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:31:17 -0800
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Controlling More Headings in WorldCat

I¹m often skeptical of OCLC automated quality control ³improvements²!  I
suspect that IRs will get left out of the mix though, as they are already
excluded from OCLC controlled headings.
As for genre headings, probably the only ones that OCLC could control would
be ones that had MARC authority records.  I believe those are still limited
to GSAFD headings which might contain the potential chaos.

Dorothy Auyong
Principal Rare Book Cataloger
Huntington Library
dauyong at huntington.org <mailto:dauyong at huntington.org>


From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
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Subject: [DCRM-L] FW: Controlling More Headings in WorldCat

Coming down the pike. If I understand correctly, OCLC is developing software
to do additional authority control in batch mode (that is, not as part of
the cataloging process, but later). 8xx and 655 fields will be now be
controlled through that process, in addition to other fields that are
currently controlled by Connexion. I don't know if they will try to control
subdivisions in 655's, but given the laissez-faire attitude of the rbms
controlled vocabularies toward subdivision practice, I'd hate to have
changes made through controlling that are perfectly legitimate under the
particular thesaurus' principles for use.

Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare
Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003
djleslie at folger.edu <mailto:djleslie at folger.edu> | 202.675-0369 |
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