[Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

[Gabriel Angulo]

Hi Neil,

These all sound great, but can your teleworkers work on Hebrew records?
Merging takes a long time. That project alone could keep a teleworker
employed for a long time.

Todros

On Monday, March 30, 2020, Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco <
heb-naco at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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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