Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
> BUT. That IS a big 'if'.
>
> I'm not sure if even 50% of the records in my own catalog actually have
> an OCLC number attached. This will vary a lot between libraries and
> their historical practice.
>
> But it's a non-trivial and difficult to automate process to add OCLC
> numbers to the literally hundreds of thousands of records that do not
> have them attached.
>
FWIW, we've been considering WCL membership / subscription /
whatever-you-call-it with OCLC and we have a consortial database of
several million records, very few of which include OCLC numbers. OCLC
is offering what it terms a "remediation" service, wherein it takes a
dump of our bib records and runs a matching algorithm against it,
returning to us the OCLC record numbers matched. We've been given to
understand that we should expect the overwhelming majority of our
records to be matched correctly.
Now, as to how well it works in reality, well, I suppose we'll find out
in the coming months. Stay tuned, film at eleven, as they say.
cheers,
- mt
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