Quality of Korean Cataloging Records in Shared Databases

Editing author main entry towards complying standards: study on original catalogue of Jaffna public library

“…Resource Description from the Library of Congress is accepted as an international standard -Myall and Chambers (2007); Shin (2003). Resources Descriptions available from the z39.50 server maintained by the Library of Congress, are used as standard cataloguing data for necessary comparison to identify the editing which are required to be performed on author main entry of the JPL catalogue in order to comply with cataloging standard.…”

“…The identified types of editing have been classified into three types as shown by Shin (2003); These are Format editing: Incorrect or missing punctuation and space (as required by ISBD) e.g., incorrect punctuation -Comma, Full Stop. Content editing: Missing a whole field -eg: Missed place of author names.…”

“…After interpreting and analyzing the data, normalizations have been made as referred to Myall and Chambers (2007); Shin (2003); Each Editing type is normalized to the total item records of study, and total number of editing to classify the most and least to be edited. The necessary data has been collected into the spreadsheet using different functions of Microsoft excel.…”

“…Where and how to rectify the deviation of regional catalogue towards complying the cataloging standards by making necessary editing, as compared to the catalogue of Library of Congress Literature Review Shin (2003) examines the quality of Korean cataloging records in OCLC's WorldCat by evaluating records in terms of specific errors, error frequency, areas where errors occur frequently, and errors that could inhibit record retrieval. Based on the results, the author proposes some recommendations on how to maintain quality in cataloging of Korean-language records.…”

“…The standard and selection of resource description must be uniform among all libraries to have uniform catalogs from the libraries of a region or state. In the ground idea of these, the description of catalogue of Library of Congress is prepared strictly following rules and regulation of standards Myall and Chambers (2007); Shin (2003). The description of catalogues can be searched and imported from Library of Congress using copy cataloguing*!…”