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Sample Wade-Giles Records in OCLC

A Brief AnalysisApril 2, 2005

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Genesis of This Brief Study

• Hideyuki's email to Eastlib (Jan. 2005?)

• Exchange of emails with Hisako

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Methodology

• Title Keyword Searches:• hsien – exceeds system limit• hsüeh – exceeds system limit• Chung-kuo and hsüeh – 406

records• hsien and chih – 244 records• t'ung and chih – 350 records

• 32 record sample selected• Books format, Chinese language

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Sample Records: ti t’ung and ti chih

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Sample Records: ti t’ung and ti chih

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Sample Record: CJK

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Sample Record: Romanized

欽定盛京通志

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Characteristics of Sample Records• Scripts: 69% CJK

31% Romanized

• Duplication: 90% are duplicates

• Source: 82% Batch Loaded

• Miscellaneous: Some are mixed Wade-Giles and

Pinyin

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Why Were They Not Converted?

• Hard to Say• Batch Load Date Cannot Be

Determined

• Clues• 987 Field (Romanization/Conversion

History)

• Inputting/Modifying Libraries• Mostly RLIN Libraries?

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987 Field Analysis(Romanization/ Conversion History)

987 Field Number of Records Percentages

"Presumed Pinyin" 14 44%

No 987 Present 10 31%

“Converted” by Library

5 16%

Converted by OCLC "r" ("Needs Review")

2 6%

Converted by OCLC "c"

1 3%

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Source LibrariesNumber of Records (32 total)

% Inputting/Modifying Libraries (040 Subfield "c" or "d")

Overall Percentage of Record Sample

9 28% YUS: Yale 28% 4 13% CSL: University of Southern California 13% 3 9% COO: Cornell

PUL: Princeton 19%

2 6% NLF: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 6% 1 3% ATL: American Theological Library Ass'n

BZV: University of Toronto CGU: University of Chicago HLS: Harvard College HMY: Harvard Yenching Library HVL: Harvard Law School Library INU: Northwestern KSU: Kent State University NLC: National Library of Canada NYP: NYPL Research Library WAU: University of Washington

34%

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Who Can Fix This Problem?

• OCLC Quality Control Staff do not have Chinese language capabilities

• Your Help Is Needed!• Convert Records to Pinyin • Check and Correct Authorities• Add Chinese characters, if possible• Report Duplicates

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How Can We Do It?

• OCLC Enhance Library?• Convert and Replace Records• Report Duplicates

• Non-Enhance Library?• Report using the 952 field

• Work with OCLC to allow reporting of Wade-Giles duplicates without converting them first?

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Thank You!

謝謝 !Xiexie!

Xie xie!

多谢！ Hsieh hsieh!

谢谢 !