[DCRM-L] Level K Records in WorldCat will be Converted to Standard MARC Encoding Levels

[Weitz,Jay]

To further OCLC’s announced move to using standard MARC encoding levels instead of the OCLC alphabetic encoding levels, OCLC will begin converting Encoding Level K records in WorldCat in January to encoding levels blank, 7, or 3 as appropriate according to determinations of record fullness.  OCLC has been testing conversion criteria for a number of months.  The conversion effort of the 25.9 million K level records currently in WorldCat will be spread out over a number of months in 2021.  This effort will provide us insight into the larger conversion effort of encoding level M records in the future.

For further information on the rationale behind this change, please see the June 2020 Virtual AskQC Office hours presentation slides, WebEx recordings and Q&A, all available on the Previous AskQC Office Hours page.<https://help.oclc.org/WorldCat/Metadata_Quality/AskQC/Previous_AskQC_office_hours>

Please pardon any duplication of this message.

Cynthia M. Whitacre
Senior Metadata Operations Manager
Metadata Quality
OCLC, Inc.
6565 Kilgour Place
Dublin, Ohio  43017
800-848-5878, ext. 6183
whitacrc at oclc.org<mailto:whitacrc at oclc.org>
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