Quality Control for Next Gen Cataloging Workflows Betsy
Quality Control for Next Gen Cataloging Workflows Betsy Simpson University of Florida Libraries betsysim@ufl. edu 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Better, faster, cheaper Good enough is good enough Catalog More with less Don’t sweat the small stuff Eliminate backlogs Maximize efficiency Focus on the user 2009 ALA Annual Conference
2009 ALA Annual Conference
Quality Control, who needs it? 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Next Gen Cataloging Workflow Acquisitions places orders n Vendor notifies OCLC n OCLC provides record file n Acquisitions loads file n Vendor sends material shelf-ready n Acquisitions checks invoice n Material sent to branch n 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Making room for quality control OCLC matches the titles against World. Cat and provides a record file n Acquisitions runs Cat. QC on file n Acquisitions loads file n Catalogers review Cat. QC report and make corrections n 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Cat. QC report 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Cat. QC specs Encoding levels: 2, 3, 5, 7, E, J, K, M n 040 fields with non-English subfield b n 245 fields n ¨ Subfields n and p ¨ Subfield h ¨ Subfields a or b with numerals ¨ Subfields a or b with red flag keywords and abbreviations (e. g. , volume, vol. , v. , part, pt. ) 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Cat. QC specs, cont. 246 fields n 490 fields with 1 st indicator 0 n 6 xx fields with 2 nd indicators 4, 5, 6, 7 n 856 fields without subfield 3 n 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Local issues Call number creation n Lack of information about links n 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Cat. QC program Open source n Windows app in standard C n xml output n 100 kb file size n Fast processing speed n Firefox browser n Contact Michael Jay: emjay@ufl. edu n 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Michael Jay, Betsy Simpson, and Doug Smith, “Cat. QC and Shelf-Ready Material: Speeding Collections to Users While Preserving Data Quality, ” Information Technology and Libraries, v. 28, no. 1, March 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Are we at a tipping point? Law of the Few n Stickiness n Power of Context n 2009 ALA Annual Conference
Quality Control for Next Gen Cataloging Workflows Questions? Comments? 2009 ALA Annual Conference
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