http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/ Library authority control: Q&A and comments en-us 2011-01-28T12:26:59-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/271327.html In various conversations lately I've been struggling to explain my feeling that authority records contain more than the data they display, and that when they get deconstructed as linked data, this something more needs to be represented in the linked... Names s-hear 2011-01-28T12:26:59-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/164679.html This entry will be used to track changes to subject headings which are heavily represented (over 20 entries) in the MNCAT catalog. See the rest of the message for the list. This entry will be updated with new changed headings... Subjects s-hear 2009-02-03T13:03:01-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/144876.html Remember the Spike Lee commercial for some company’s athletic shoes? Spike appears on camera trying to compete against a professional basketball player who flies around the court outmaneuvering Spike and sinking baskets with ease. At the end Spike is seen... General s-hear 2008-09-25T17:36:52-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/133703.html Most of these are location codes for other libraries which came in as part of records from RLIN. We don't need them, but they're hard to get rid of. For more detail, read on.... Call numbers s-hear 2008-07-01T17:53:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/089846.html NACO normalization is a set of rules for eliminating small differences from character strings. Normalization is good, but NACO normalization isn't good in all cases. For more information, please click "Continue reading."... General s-hear 2007-09-26T09:41:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/045164.html Older forms found on LC bib records raise a number of questions. Click "Continue reading ..." below for an extended discussion which covers a number of them.... Names s-hear 2006-05-02T12:10:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/039773.html When you look for holdings for an analyzed volume--i.e., a volume that's part of a cataloged set or series, but that also has its own catalog record--it matters which place you look for the holdings information in the MNCAT public... Aleph s-hear 2006-03-02T08:58:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/037059.html The full entry below includes the announcement from LC's Cataloging Policy and Support Office of how LC will implement the new policy regarding adding death dates to personal name headings with open birth dates, and how we will be implementing... Names s-hear 2006-02-02T11:46:31-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/022014.html Clay Shirky has posted a piece titled "Ontology Is Overrated: Ontologies, Links, and Tags" at http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html The piece has attracted some interest among library staff. The rest of this entry is a set of notes in response to points raised... General s-hear 2005-05-23T09:50:38-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/021565.html MNCAT is our library of record, not WorldCat. For various reasons, WorldCat is an unreliable guide to what the University Libraries holds. For more detail, read on.... General s-hear 2005-05-11T09:06:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/020138.html Now that authority linking has been turned back on, please be aware of a temporary issue regarding the updating of headings with form subdivisions. Specifically, when you update a record with a form subdivision in $$v and the authority still... Aleph s-hear 2005-04-20T11:32:12-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/017610.html If the difference involves an initial article, this is an insoluble problem for now, but it may be solved in the future. For more information, read on.... Aleph s-hear 2005-03-11T14:44:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/015877.html Librarians usually think of authority control in the context of the library catalog, where an elaborate set of rules and a long history of consensus building and professional discipline have resulted in a relatively high uniformity of practice and understanding.... General s-hear 2005-02-14T12:10:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/015179.html The index regeneration that has done so much good for MNCAT (authorizing many additional headings, correcting problems from the first index gen for v14, finally making thousands of romanized Arabic, Russian, Indic and Icelandic headings searchable) has also in a... Aleph s-hear 2005-02-03T15:49:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-hear/control/015096.html The purpose of the on-screen "Correct Display" button, new in Aleph version 16, was a bit obscure to me, but now I think I understand it.... Aleph s-hear 2005-02-02T11:09:07-06:00