[Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

[Neil Manel Frau-Cortes]

Hi everybody,

I hope you are well and keeping safe and isolated.

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.

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.

Potential ideas --




   1.

   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.
   2.

   We could add links to existing print bibs pointing to Hebrewbooks or
   other digital repositories (‘also available online...”).
   3.

   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.
   4.

   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.
   5.

   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.
   6.

   Other ideas?




Neil

-- 

*Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his)

*Senior Catalog Librarian*

*Supervisor for Non-Roman and Special Collections Cataloging*


University of Maryland

2200 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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