Library Cataloging
The article Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities by Greg R. Notess describes some of the more obscure forms of URLs. Understanding URLs can be important; there are enough of them in our catalogs. Once we could catalog an item and then go on to another, except for serials. Now we must go back to those records with URLs and check if they are still working. My last check only found 4 problems out of about 1000 links, not bad. However, those catalog records are never finished. When I fix the URL I check to see if the content has been changed as well as the address. The sites that change the content but leave the address the same are currently undetectable. I could use a service that alerts me to changes in a page, but every day I'd get a list of pages with minor changes. Who has time for that? There is not yet an easy answer, but papers that help us understand the structure of the link are valuable.
- Links In Lc Records
News about 856 links from LOC.I've received a couple of questions recently about the 856 links in LC records for the TOCs, descriptions, bios, sample texts, etc. and wanted to spread the word about what we did. Every month, around the first of the...
- Improving Our Catalogs
10 Ways to Improve Data Quality by Jeffrey Beall in American Libraries, 36(3) pp. 36-37 is now available on ELIS. Pretty standard stuff. It did include one suggestion I'd not thought of before. Some older autobiographies lack a subject heading for...
- Isbn
Does anyone know of a tool to check a batch of ISBNs? I've found some ISBN checkers and validators that will take one ISBN and check it but how about 1000 or 10,000 run in batch mode? It would be nice to run the ISBNs in our catalog against a checker...
- Changes
Tracking changes is important when content becomes fluid, as it does in digital forms. There have been, for quite some time, Web page watchers that send an e-mail message when a page is updated. WatchThatPage is one example. I use this to keep track on...
- Maintaining The Catalog
Checking the links is the catalog has become (or should become) a regular task for us. Our small collection, about 22,000 titles, has almost 1000 links located in 856 fields. Thanks to Tom Tyler that task is a bit more automated. He has also created a...
Library Cataloging
URLs
The article Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities by Greg R. Notess describes some of the more obscure forms of URLs. Understanding URLs can be important; there are enough of them in our catalogs. Once we could catalog an item and then go on to another, except for serials. Now we must go back to those records with URLs and check if they are still working. My last check only found 4 problems out of about 1000 links, not bad. However, those catalog records are never finished. When I fix the URL I check to see if the content has been changed as well as the address. The sites that change the content but leave the address the same are currently undetectable. I could use a service that alerts me to changes in a page, but every day I'd get a list of pages with minor changes. Who has time for that? There is not yet an easy answer, but papers that help us understand the structure of the link are valuable.
- Links In Lc Records
News about 856 links from LOC.I've received a couple of questions recently about the 856 links in LC records for the TOCs, descriptions, bios, sample texts, etc. and wanted to spread the word about what we did. Every month, around the first of the...
- Improving Our Catalogs
10 Ways to Improve Data Quality by Jeffrey Beall in American Libraries, 36(3) pp. 36-37 is now available on ELIS. Pretty standard stuff. It did include one suggestion I'd not thought of before. Some older autobiographies lack a subject heading for...
- Isbn
Does anyone know of a tool to check a batch of ISBNs? I've found some ISBN checkers and validators that will take one ISBN and check it but how about 1000 or 10,000 run in batch mode? It would be nice to run the ISBNs in our catalog against a checker...
- Changes
Tracking changes is important when content becomes fluid, as it does in digital forms. There have been, for quite some time, Web page watchers that send an e-mail message when a page is updated. WatchThatPage is one example. I use this to keep track on...
- Maintaining The Catalog
Checking the links is the catalog has become (or should become) a regular task for us. Our small collection, about 22,000 titles, has almost 1000 links located in 856 fields. Thanks to Tom Tyler that task is a bit more automated. He has also created a...