<div dir="ltr">Hi everybody,<div><br></div><div>I hope you are well and keeping safe and isolated.</div><div><br></div><div>One of my big projects at work has been generating tasks for teleworkers, particularly for catalogers that are print-dependent and new to remote work, and now find themselves almost idle. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a proposal: can we find things we could invest time in, as a group? If nothing else, I would like to start this discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Potential ideas --</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-38ca5ca6-7fff-a835-2cab-2e3642245f6c"><br><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hebrewbooks bib records - unlike HathiTrust, Hebrewbooks does not set high standards for its metadata. We could revisit the existing records and enrich them. At least for now, these are open and available for all, they appear on WorldCat and our patrons make use of them constantly. We could take advantage of this less-than-ideal situation.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We could add links to existing print bibs pointing to Hebrewbooks or other digital repositories (‘also available online...”).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NACO authorities with “provisional” vernacular - in many cases authority files have multiple vernacular Hebrew and Yiddish versions of names. Some of them would require having the item in hand, but some are just mistakes and typos added programmatically.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wikidata authorities for Hebrew personal names. Anybody can do this, it doesn’t need NACO clearance. It has a definite impact on LinkedData environments, it links to VIAF, etc.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Work on your Merge independence, either as an individual or as an institution. We are not sure OCLC will be able to send us lots of Hebrew examples, but you have some time to browse Connexion and find sets you would want to merge.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other ideas?</span></p></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Neil</span></font></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:large;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><b>Neil M.
Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. </b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(he, him, his)</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><b>Senior Catalog Librarian</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><b>Supervisor for Non-Roman and Special Collections Cataloging</b></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">University of Maryland</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">2200 </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">McKeldin Library</span></p><p><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12.8px">College Park, MD 20742</span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
Phone (301) 405-9337</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://nfrau@umd.edu" target="_blank">nfrau@umd.edu</a></span></span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">ORCID ID: </span><span style="color:rgb(73,74,76);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12px"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>