We have a dynamite webinar planned for later today, wherein I am
co-presenting with Jeremy Myntti, Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services
at University of Utah.
This is The Next Thing: Authority Control for Digital Content
Jeremy and Backstage have worked together to increase access for digital
repository records housed in CONTENTdm. The process used is heavily
based on our existing authority control technology, but made to fit for
digital records in CDM's XML format. The webinar will last an hour and
there should be time to ask questions
Please join us later this afternoon at 5pm EST for our webinar at
Library 2.013:
https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=LIB2013Part140
Other Library 2.013 presentations are also available at this site:
http://www.library20.com/page/library-2-0-schedule-gmt-6
Hope to see all of you there!
Nate Cothran
Vice President, Automation Services
25 East 1700 South
Provo, Utah 84606
Phone: +1.800.288.1265, ext. 697
Direct: +1.801.342.5697
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In conjunction with OCLC's recent announcement of "adding FAST headings
to selected WorldCat records", Backstage is also preparing to make these
authorities match-able and return-able should you choose to have this
done via our authority control processing.
What this means right now is that the heading would need to be in this
format for us to match against the FAST authority database:
6xx _7 ... $2 fast
We would treat FAST subject headings similarly to how we treat other
authorities from different genre databases. Both the 2nd indicator value
of 7 and the $2 fast need to exist on the FAST subject heading.
Please note that we do not have the capability (yet) to match against
648 subject headings, which are Subject Added Entry - Chronological
Terms. A brief example of one of these records is:
001 fst01355873
148 $a 1914-1918
448 $a World War I Period
We are working on getting the programming into place to handle these,
but so far there only around 700 FAST authorities for these types of
headings.
The full FAST authority database that is now available comprises nearly
1.7 million authorities.
Please let us know if you are interested in having us match your FAST
headings against this new database. We are working on updating our
collateral to reflect this.
Nate Cothran
Vice President, Automation Services
25 East 1700 South
Provo, Utah 84606
Phone: +1.800.288.1265, ext. 697
Direct: +1.801.342.5697
nate(a)bslw.com
<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> *
www.bslw.com <http://www.bslw.com>
