[Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

Tue Mar 31 13:31:04 EDT 2020

From: Yaniv Levi <Yaniv.Levi at nli.org.il>
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Cc: Rini Goldsmith <marina.goldsmith at nli.org.il>, Ahava Cohen <
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:19:16 +0000
Subject: RE: [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

Dear Heidi and Neil,

A short update from the NLI on the issues rasied below (not sure it helps
but might).

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.

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.

3. NACO  “provisional” vernacular - 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.

4. Wikidata authorities for Hebrew personal names - the VIAF information is
merged with wikidata, but any additions to Wikidata will be welcome.

BR,

Yaniv Levi-Korem

Head of Technical Services

National Library of Israel

E.J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, P.O.B. 39105; Jerusalem 91390, Israel
(E) Yaniv.Levi at nli.org.il (C) 972-52-8600-747 (W) 972-2-6586424

*From:* Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Heidi G
Lerner via Heb-naco <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2020 1:57 AM
*To:* Hebrew Name Authority Funnel; Neil Manel Frau-Cortes
*Subject:* Re: [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

Neil,

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.

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.

Best, Heidi

Heidi G. Lerner

Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica

Metadata Dept.

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, CA 94305-6004

ph: 650-725-9953

fax: 650-725-1120

e-mail: lerner at stanford.edu

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*Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2020 8:21 AM
*To:* Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>
*Subject:* [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

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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