Preliminary Authority Records
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Preliminary Authority Records


Just what does it take to upgrade a preliminary authority record? I ask because there are some about 25 years old that are still preliminary.

n 83827701
Space Age Astronomy Symposium (1961 : Pasadena, Calif.)

or

n 83827385
Solar Spectrum Symposium (1963 : Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht)




- Poll Results
Very unscientific poll results: Do Library of Congress authority records from the mid-1980s that are still preliminary bother you? Yes. [ 52% (14 votes) ] Not so much. [ 26% (7 votes) ] No. [ 22% (6 votes) ]...

- Preliminary Authority Records
I've set up a poll on old preliminary records. Just for fun or to vent....

- Preliminary Authority Records
Here is another preliminary authority record: American Association of Petroleum Geologists. |b Committee on Structural Nomenclature It was created in 1985 as shown by the ID n 85806886. It was updated in 2008 as shown by 005. But it is still PRELIMINARY....

- Authority Records In Marcxml
Seen elsewhere but too pertinent not to mention, is that the LC authority file is now available in MARCXML.Using a custom agent, we were able to harvest 6.95 million authority records using the publicly accessible interface to the Library of Congress...

- Metadata Authority Description Schema
Some news about the Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS).Please note that we've made some changes to the draft MARC authorities to MADS mapping, since we discovered in writing the stylesheet for conversion that the authority attribute was...



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