Please allow me to remind folks of a presentation that Renee Register did at ALA Midwinter 2010 at the ALCTS Forum on OCLC's ONIX Enrichment process. I wrote up a summary of her talk on my blog (http://dltj.org/article/mashups-of-bib-data/).
Peter
On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Cory Rockliff wrote:
>
> This is actually what I imagined would be the primary use case for ONIX
> in libraries--Even if there's a lot more to add in order to arrive at a
> "full" record (however we're to define that), deriving MARC record
> "stubs" from ONIX should significantly lessen the burden of
> transcription from the item-in-hand by catalogers.
>
> On 12/22/10 5:07 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>> I suspect they might be a good start for quicker more efficient
>> library cataloging too.
>>
>> Take an ONIX record, control the author field, add some controlled
>> subjects, maybe you're done.
>>
>> This would still be less meaning than is intended by our traditional
>> records. But would it be enough to meet our users objectives, and how
>> much time would it save? I don't know, really just a random
>> suggestion I think worth further investigation, but probably won't
>> receive it.
>
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