Learning from artifacts

Eklund, Amy; Snyder, Gregory; Polyakov, Serhiy; Miksa, Shawne D.; Moen, William E.

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“…Note: National and Minimal Level requirement qualifications, like those in column 6 of Table 8, were omitted from the above table since none of these qualifications directly or significantly affects the elements included in the commonly used elements in the sound recordings set. Record Set are the 29 cataloger-supplied fields that account for at least 92.5% of all cataloger-supplied field utilization in the set and the 95 catalogersupplied subfields that account for at least 95.7% of all cataloger-supplied subfield utilization in the set (Moen et al, 2005c). As part of this mapping, fields and subfields that were prescribed in the PCC BIBCO Core Record Standards but did not commonly occur in the sets were found.…”

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Comparison of MARC Content Designation Utilization in OCLC WorldCat Records with National, Core, and Minimal Level Record Standards

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Miksa

Moen

et al. 2009

Journal of Library Metadata

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Commonly used fields and subfields in 56 million Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat bibliographic records are identified based on the analysis of format-specific record sets and the calculation of utilization thresholds, with the purpose of comparing these elements with existing recommendations by Library of Congress (LC) agencies for national, core, and minimal level records. The background and purposes of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) BIBCO, CONSER, and National and Minimal Level Record Requirements are It is proposed that by comparing these prescribed sets of content designation to the frequency counts of actual content designation use by catalogers, parallelisms or incongruities of standards and practice will be revealed. RESEARCH GOALSThis article exists within the context of the MARC Content Designation Utilization (MCDU) project. The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a National Leadership Grant to support this project during the 2004-2007 time frame. One of the research goals of the project, to provide empirical evidence to document MARC21 content designation (i.e., field-subfield combinations) use by catalogers, was achieved by frequency counts of all fields and subfields used in the OCLC WorldCat database. OCLC provided the project the complete set of MARC records from WorldCat in May 2007 comprising approximately 56 million records. This served as the dataset analyzed in the MCDU project. Another research objective was to identify commonly used elements in bibliographic records based on the analysis of format-specific record sets and to compare these elements with existing recommendations by LC agencies for national, core, and minimal level records (Moen, 2004). In support of the research objectives, this analysis seeks to address the following research questions: What are the sets of commonly used elements per format, and how do these compare with the elements prescribed in current national, core, and minimal level recommendations or guidelines for cataloging? Conversely, are there elements that are frequently used by catalogers but are not prescribed in current national, core, and minimal level recommendations or guidelines for cataloging? The results of this analysis can provide standards designers and the cataloging community at large with information to LITERATURE REVIEWTo date, only one published empirical study (Lundy, 2006) was located that reports the comparison of content designation use in MARC records with the prescribed elements in the PCC BIBCO Core Record Standards, and no studies were located on the comparison of utilization with National and Minimal Level Bibliographic Record Requirements or CONSER Record Requirements for Full, Minimal, and Core Level Records for Serials. Lundy (2006) conducted a study of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (DCRB) core records from the RLIN and WorldCat databases and examined the records for adherence to the PCC BIBCO Core Standard for Rare Books. Lundy's study presents a very detailed and comprehensive a...

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Comparison of MARC Content Designation Utilization in OCLC WorldCat Records with National, Core, and Minimal Level Record Standards

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Moen

et al. 2009

Journal of Library Metadata

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“…Over the years, many studies with a focus on MARC21 metadata records have been published. This includes publications resulting from the study conducted in the 2000s that examined all (over 50 million) metadata records contained in WorldCat at the time [1,3,4] as well as a recent study that examined the data in various fields and subfields of a large sample of WorldCat records that were added to the database in 2020 [8]. Also, one study looked at the quality of the MARC21 records representing materials in Slavic languages [6].…”

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Ukrainian Archival Metadata in WorldCat: Exploratory Analysis

Zavalin¹

2023

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc-2023

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The purpose of metadata is to enable information users to find, identify, select, obtain, and explore information resources. The largest global database of machine-readable bibliographic metadata, WorldCat includes over 500 million records that represent information resources in 483 languages. While most of these records describe individual officially published or released materials (print and electronic books and journals, VHS, CD, and DVD releases of documentary and feature films, officially distributed audio albums of songs and instrumental music), over 2.3 million of metadata records included in WorldCat represent archival materials of various kinds. Our study examined a sample of WorldCat records representing Ukrainian-language archival materials (including digital resources) that were not officially published or released with the goal to examine the extent to which these metadata records support the user tasks of find, identify, select, obtain, and explore.

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The user‐centered design of a non‐specialist metadata tool and interface for the Internet Public Library

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Park

Lin

2009

Proc of Assoc for Info

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Good quality metadata are key in supporting user interactions with a repository. Poor quality metadata hide resources, produce poor search results, and negatively affect user satisfaction (Barton et al. 2004; Beall 2005; Geisler et al. 2002). Good quality metadata can be resourceintensive to produce, and as a result there is a 'metadata generation bottleneck' between the growing numbers of digital resources requiring description and the limited numbers of metadata specialists who can create such descriptions (Liddy et al., 2001). This can restrict metadata production and reduce the utility of repositories (Wilson, 2007). Approaches to addressing this bottleneck include training more metadata specialists; automatic metadata generation (Liddy et al., 2001; Ochoa & Duval n.d.); and also the solution discussed in this poster, the user-centered design and development of a tool to support student volunteers and interns to engage in the creation and quality control of Dublin Core metadata records for the Internet Public Library (IPL:http://www.ipl.org/).

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Learning from artifacts

Cited by 8 publications

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Comparison of MARC Content Designation Utilization in OCLC WorldCat Records with National, Core, and Minimal Level Record Standards

Comparison of MARC Content Designation Utilization in OCLC WorldCat Records with National, Core, and Minimal Level Record Standards

Ukrainian Archival Metadata in WorldCat: Exploratory Analysis

The user‐centered design of a non‐specialist metadata tool and interface for the Internet Public Library

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