ebook cataloging: trouble, even in batch
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Kathryn Lybarger Fourth Friday February 22, 2013. Ebook cataloging: trouble, even in batch. MARC. A data format used to encode and share bibliographic data Developed in the 1960’s, still quite popular. Cataloging. Vendors often provide MARC records. Batch loading. All done?. Not quite…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ebook cataloging: trouble, even in batch
Kathryn LybargerFourth FridayFebruary 22, 2013
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MARC
A data format used to encode and share bibliographic data
Developed in the 1960’s, still quite popular
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Cataloging
Catalog
Library of Congress
OCLCor
SkyRiverOriginal
Cataloging
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Vendors often provide MARC records
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Batch loading
Vendor MARC Catalog
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All done?
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Not quite…
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Records may be icky…
Title: CESMM3 price database 2009, edited by Franklin + Andrews
100 1_ Franklin.245 10 CESMM3 price database 2009 ‡h [electronic resource] / ‡c edited by Franklin and Andrews.500 __ Ebook.516 __ Document.538 __ PDF: Adobe PDF700 1_ Andrews.856 40 …
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…but worse, non-functional!
Data may be unhelpful, or misleading
Links may not work
This may change over time
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A crazy mixed-up record(with 112 holdings)
From one book: Title Author Series Subject headings
From another book: Notes ISBN Link to e-book
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URLs from other vendors
Provider-neutral records may have URLs from multiple vendors
An OCLC search for records with URLs from eblib, ebrary, ebscohost AND
myilibrary returned over 43,000.
Even if they are labeled, patrons don’t know which vendor we’re using
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URLs that point nowhere
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URLs that point somewhere new!
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DOI troubles
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Books may not be available yet(or ever)
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“Slippage”
Some ebooks on a frontlist may never appear on the site
Individual ebooks may just disappear
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Lists may be available…
But not forthcoming.
You may have to periodically dig several levels deep on the website to get them:
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Or they may just not mention it…
After we confronted one vendor:
“Of the 15 accounts that I spot checked the most usage for (TITLE) was 5 views. However, I see that the 2 titles listed below are in the top 5 most viewed for UKY in 2012.”
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Platform change
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Solutions?
Start with the best records you can find
Edit MARC records to conform with local standards
Verify access to all titles (periodically)
Report problems when you find them
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Vendors may do some editing
But how do you predict what you will need?
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MarcEdit
Developed by Terry Reese
MARC editing in a friendly yet powerful text editor
Z39.50 client
(Binary editor!)
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Automation
Efficiency, Consistency
.mrk format is text, so you can process with your favorite programming language
Don’t have a favorite language (yet)?
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Codecademy #libcodeyear
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My automation: Normac
NORMalization and Access Checking
Open source software, releasing soon
Configure per vendor: Fields to add/delete Changes to make How to check links
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Generic link checkers may not be effective Ebook errors can be valid web pages, and
errors don’t mean you should give up!
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Full text ebook Web site form to buy the book
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found No such page on server Broken DOI (that you should report)
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Effective link checking (my method) Database holds a list of links to be
checked
Script checks each according to site profile (pausing 10 seconds between each link): Is it a PDF? Does it contain the phrase “This is not
part of your subscription”? Can you click through to fulltext
chapters?
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If you see broken links…
Let me know!
I have to know what broken ebooks look like (from a given vendor) before I can detect them
If a vendor has many brokenones I can do a systematic
check
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Any questions?
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Links
MarcEdit http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
Code Academyhttp://www.codeacademy.com
My GitHub repositoryhttps://github.com/zemkat/