Re: FRBRization in LT, was: Personal perspectives on catalog use

From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:02:27 -0800
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Karen Coyle wrote:
>
> In the UC union catalog, we had about 35 million 'books', and 10 
> million works. However, 66% of the works were singletons. So we had 
> about 6.5 million singletons, and the other 29 million books turned 
> into the 3.5 million merged titles.

oops, I should have said 35 million 'books', and 10 million *titles*. We 
merged at the manifestation level.

>
> So I think we ended up with a classic zipf-ian curve, with a very high 
> end that dropped sharply, and a long tail.
>
> kc
>


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