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<p>A short update from the NLI on the issues rasied below (not sure it helps but might).<br>
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<p>1. Hebrew books (HB): At NLI we have already linked our bib records to the scanned books in HB, this means we have a full standard record for all the books scanned in HB. The issue is that our records are cataloged in Hebrew and do not have transliteration
and the general fields (3xx, 5xx) are in Hebrew. Not sure if that can help american libraries but If there is a library that this information is of intrest to her we will be happy to share. In addition we are planing to share the records through the Alma Community
Zone (CZ) and are in contact with ExL on that matter but the same limitation will apply. <br>
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<p>2. Other digitized collection: the work above is not limited to HB, but also to other digitized books worldwida, including the YBC (Yiddish book center) collection, Libraries in Germany, Yizkor book (NYPL), Internet archive and others. But again same limitation
apply. I would mention that we are working with Google to scan any out of copy rights book in our collection (till now over 40'000) and that will also be avalible. <br>
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<p>3. NACO <span style="font-family:arial; font-size:14.6667px; white-space:pre-wrap; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“provisional” vernacular</span> - at NLI we have connected our authority file to LC, so we have the official hebrew form for the LC forms.
This is not true for all authors in LC, but only to authors that published books in Hebrew. You can see the infomration in VIAF.org. If this can help with a jump start will be happy to share. <br>
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<p>4. <span style="font-family:arial; font-size:14.6667px; white-space:pre-wrap; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Wikidata authorities for Hebrew personal names - the VIAF information is merged with wikidata, but any additions to Wikidata will be welcome.
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<p><span style="font-family:arial; font-size:14.6667px; white-space:pre-wrap; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Yaniv Levi-Korem</span></p>
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<div id="gmail-m_-8793774752664492842divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Heb-naco <<a href="mailto:heb-naco-bounces@lists.osu.edu">heb-naco-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Heidi
G Lerner via Heb-naco <<a href="mailto:heb-naco@lists.osu.edu">heb-naco@lists.osu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 31, 2020 1:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hebrew Name Authority Funnel; Neil Manel Frau-Cortes<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re:</font>[Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals
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That is a great idea if there are Hebrew catalogers whose institutions really don't have things to do.I am working in tandem with my unit on a variety of different projects, some Hebrew dependent, some different projects that have been sitting around that
we now are able to tackle because of a lack of print resources.</div>
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At the present time I have more than enough to keep me busy but perhaps there are others who would jump at the opportunity. I do suspect that managers' will need to be involved in these explorations.</div>
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Best, Heidi</div>
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<div id="gmail-m_-8793774752664492842divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Heb-naco <<a href="mailto:heb-naco-bounces@lists.osu.edu">heb-naco-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Neil
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 30, 2020 8:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <<a href="mailto:heb-naco@lists.osu.edu">heb-naco@lists.osu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals</font>
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<div>I hope you are well and keeping safe and isolated.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Potential ideas --</div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; 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>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; 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>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; 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>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; 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>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; 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>
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<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>
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