[Heb-NACO] copying and pasting diacritics

[Neil Manel Frau-Cortes]

That would make sense. Perhaps they are batch loading from some other
environment. We should keep an eye on it and let them (or whoever else)
know it.


Neil

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Miriam Gloger <miriamgloger at bookops.org>
wrote:

> I've noticed this problem with WEINB (Weinberg vendor records), mainly
> with the Alif and Ayin and especially hypens.  Anyone know of a good way to
> show the codes in the record?
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Neil Manel Frau-Cortes <nfrau at umd.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Lately I am encountering a number of bib records on OCLC where a
>> cataloger has copied and pasted romanizations from somewhere else. The
>> problem is that, even if it displays correctly and it validates, the
>> diacritics map and index wrongly.
>>
>> Example: 1031899969 Ḥorvot min ha-hoṿeh (with the under-dots) was done
>> this way. The diacritics, when transferred to Aleph looked like $orvot min
>> ha-ho eh : and of course the indexing and searching didn't work.
>>
>> Maybe it's somebody who copies from another place in order to avoid
>> typing the under-dots, not sure. Problem is, when you search for the tile
>> it is not indexed correctly and when you transfer it to Aleph it becomes
>> gibberish.
>>
>>
>> So heads up, that's it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kol tuv,
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his)
>>
>> Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger
>>
>>
>> University of Maryland
>>
>> 4109 McKeldin Library
>>
>> College Park, MD 20742
>>
>> Phone (301) 405-9337
>>
>> nfrau at umd.edu
>>
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*Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his)

Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger


University of Maryland

4109 McKeldin Library

College Park, MD 20742

Phone (301) 405-9337

nfrau at umd.edu

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405
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