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Connexion Overview Session

OCLC CJK Users Group

2007 Annual Meeting

March 24, 2007, Boston

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Presenters

David Whitehair, Connexion client product manager, OCLC

Sarah Elman, Associate Curator, East Asia Library, Yale University

Teresa Mei, East Asian Catalog Librarian, Cornell University Library

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Agenda

High level overview of some Connexion features from David

Specific migration presentations from Sarah and Teresa

Lots of discussion

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Connexion features

Search WorldCat using over 90 indexes for records containing non-Latin script data; enter either script search terms or romanized search terms

Create records with Latin script only, non-Latin script only, or combination of both

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Connexion features

Export records to your ILS in MARC 21 format with either the MARC-8 or UTF-8 Unicode character set

Import MARC 21 records with either MARC-8 or UTF-8 Unicode character set created in your ILS

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Connexion features specific to CJK

CJK E-Dictionary to assist with CJK character selection

MARC-8 Verify tool to verify that all Unicode characters can be converted to MARC-8

MARC-8 Convert tool to convert invalid Unicode characters to their MARC-8 equivalent

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Connexion features specific to CJK

Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean interfaces

Chinese Name Authority File access

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