I agree with Jonathan: Wow! Yes, this is great. I'd love to see a
whole catalog done this way. It seems like for a small public library
with mainly current materials this would work, especially if their
system could keyword index the description field. *That* would be an
interesting experiment, if someone can do it. Maybe as a test system
in Koha? (I'd be glad to help, but have tried to install Koha and
failed due to remedial Unix skills.)
kc
Quoting Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_JHU.EDU>:
> Wow, that's pretty cool. Did you write that Charles? Know who did?
> If they are interested in writing an article for the Code4Lib
> Journal, I think that project could use some more exposure.
>
> On 12/27/2010 2:08 PM, Charles Ledvina wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:07:16 -0500, Jonathan Rochkind<rochkind_at_JHU.EDU>
>> 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.
>> The Amazon To Marc Converter at http://amazon.libcat.org takes Amazon's
>> ONIX data and creates a Marc where you can verify names via the VIAF API
>> and add call numbers and subject headings using OCLC's Classify API.
>>
>> Charles Ledvina
>
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