Annual Users' Meeting
21-22
August 2003
Stamford Grand Adelaide
Glenelg
South
Australia
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Questions with notice
Cataloguing
Could the creation of authority records be simplified by the following:
- Get rid off the meaningless and unnecessary boxes (Language of access point, Language of indexing and Verification level ) when a heading is created. They are only a source of real and potential duplicates.
- Correct wrong labelling in 008 field (position 8: "Romanization scheme" to "Language of Catalogue")
- Display codes next to their meaning everywhere.
- In the Descriptive Cataloguing rules (position 10 in 008 field) make Australian (z) the default, and do not convert it back to "c" on output to local systems.
If any of the above cannot be done -- could you explain why not?! (Deakin University Library)
As you are aware Kinetica runs on the AMICUS software purchased originally by, and developed for, the National Library of Canada. Many features in the cataloguing module and particularly in the handling of headings and authorities reflected the needs of Canada's dual language environment. Changes were made to the AMICUS software to adapt it for its Australian users where it was easy to do so, but some features were so deeply embedded in the software that it was considered too difficult to change them and that changing them would not deliver any meaningful functional benefit.
We, at Deakin University Library intend to start creating authority records on-line on Kinetica for names and places associated with our institution and region as we have done in the past on ABN. We believe that we are the best "authority" for such names and would like to share them with the rest of the Kinetica community. If other institutions would like to follow suit how can they contribute their authority records without having the Kinetica-Client?(Deakin University Library)
Input of authority records to the NBD is only available through the Kinetica Cataloguing Client. Kinetica does not currently have any facilities to batch load authority records apart from the Client.
The latest authority survey highlighted a number of issues which Kinetica is currently examining. This report will be available on our homepage by Friday the 22nd of Augoust.
What plans has Kinetica in place to replicate the current
PromptCat service offered by OCLC to library suppliers?
Ideally Library
suppliers should be able to both supply their Australian clients with a
Kinetica record and notify Kinetica of the holdings addition at the same time
as the item is supplied to their client Library.(Victoria
University of Technology)
What Promptcat offers is an automated record matching service that not only matches vendor lists with bibliograhic records on the OCLC online union catalogue, but which also adds local data and holdings information to the matched records. The level of matching required by such a process is very high, and is made possible in Promptcat only because of a database that links vendor inventory directly with records on WorldCat.
It would take the National Library a significant amount of resources and development work to replicate a database of this nature, not least the amount of resources it would take to maintain, manage and administer the database on an on-going basis.
Kinetica does however, recognise the importance of assisting libraries in improving their cataloguing workflows, and already has arrangements in place with a number of library vendors to acquire Kinetica data to supply to their customers. Holdings are added to the NBD as part of this arrangement.
Kinetica is always looking at improving its services to clients, and has undertaken work to improve the accuracy and reliability of automatic record matching for duplicate identification. Such efforts support its primary role as a medium for resouce sharing and discovery, and could lead to applications of the kind offered by Promptcat at some point in the future.