[Evergreen-catalogers] Tiny Cat

[Hardy, Elaine]

I think this is a great idea. We might be able to pull a subset of several
of the large consortiums for this. Perhaps pick a small library from each
to mine records from and dedup the file. We could either keep the policy
names and create a system that would accommodate them or automate a
process to change them. Same for barcodes.

And as Sarah points out, there are problem children that are correctly
cataloged but that are challenging for and ILS as well as incorrectly
cataloged records that are challenging in a different way. We would
probably want to try to include both.

We might be able to do something similar for authority records but that
would be trickier since we would need a base file   that reflected the
headings for the bib data.

Elaine
 

J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service,
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
404.235-7128
404.235-7201, fax

ehardy at georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org
http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines/


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of
Galen Charlton
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 9:43 AM
To: evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org
Subject: [Evergreen-catalogers] Tiny Cat

Hi,

And no, I'm not talking about kittens -- though maybe I should be on a
Friday.

A long-running discussion among the developers has been putting together a
set of test records for Evergreen, which would be used for automated
software testing and possibly for community demonstration databases.
What I'd like to bring up is the possibility of Evergreen catalogers
getting together and creating a small, cohesive data set of bibliographic
and authority records.  By "cohesive" I mean a set of records that are
selected to appear as if they come from a tiny, but real library, albeit
one that collects in every format and perhaps includes an unusual number
of "problem children" like Stephen King's 11/22/63.

Why build Tiny Cat?  Having a stable, shared data set would make it easier
to experiment with tweaking default indexing and display rules without
having to always make reference to existing Evergreen catalogs that also
have to support local cataloging practice.  It would also be a fixed point
of comparison for cataloging and OPAC functionality as new versions of
Evergreen get released

Would this be of interest to the members of this list?

Regards,

Galen
--
Galen Charlton
Director of Support and Implementation
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
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