From: Philip S. <sh...@ro...> - 2010-02-17 16:33:16
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Demian, Would you be willing to share your format customization or bean shell script? Maybe possible put it up on the VUFind wiki for others to see? In our case I will try to work with our catalogs to develop a criteria for our formats and push those into an updated format.bsh -Phil ------------------------------ Philip Shafer Library System Services Rowan University Library 201 Mullica Hill Rd Glassboro, NJ 08028 856-256-4418 856-256-4924 Fax From: Demian Katz <dem...@vi...> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:29:07 -0500 To: Ya'aqov Ziso <zi...@ro...>, Philip Shafer <sh...@ro...>, "vuf...@li..." <vuf...@li...> Subject: RE: [VuFind-General] ebooks and Formats For what it's worth, VuFind's default format determination script doesn't rely solely on 007/00 being c -- it also expects leader/07 to be 'm' (monograph) before flagging an eBook. Also worth keeping in mind is that the default script only allows one format per item, so a lot of things that get detected as other formats earlier in the code never get marked as Books. Villanova's locally-customized version of the script includes a lot of changes to allow multi-format items. The one piece of good news is that the BeanShell script introduced in RC2's upgraded SolrMarc makes it a lot easier to customize the format determination code without having to rebuild SolrMarc over and over but as you say (or sigh), this is one area where customization tends to be necessary. - Demian From: Ya'aqov Ziso [mailto:zi...@ro...] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:52 AM To: Demian Katz; Philip Shafer; vuf...@li... Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] ebooks and Formats Specifically, 007/00 c¹ stands for electronic resource, not necessarily an eBook. There are several fixed field positions pertinent to the electronic description: Leader: where one determines the type of record, and where a computer file is not a language material such as a monograph) 006/00 m¹ computer file/electronic resource 006/06 Form of item s¹ electronic 007/00 c¹ stands for electronic resource 008/18-34 distinguishing computer files whereby an eBook is one of the included types It seems that the initial VuFind's default format determination script used 007/00 as a shortcut, leaving to each institution the option to customize according to their cataloging standards (sigh! one more sigh!) how to distinguish an eBook. Ya¹aqov Ziso, Electronic Resource Management Librarian, Rowan University 856 256 4804 On 2/17/10 9:57 AM, "Demian Katz" <dem...@vi...> wrote: At Villanova, we have made a lot of changes to VuFind's default format determination script. However, one thing we haven't changed is the eBook determination. This is based on the first character of the 007 control field -- if this is set to "c" ("Computer File"), the item is considered an eBook. I'm not sure why a physical book would have this value set this way, but perhaps a cataloger could give you some insight. - Demian > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Shafer [mailto:sh...@ro...] > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:40 AM > To: vuf...@li... > Subject: [VuFind-General] ebooks and Formats > > We have records that are actual physical books being labeled as eBook > format. After reviewing the import scripts and the format.bsh, I've > realized that the current criteria that assigns a format as eBook might > not > be the best for our institution. While I realize that this might be > more of > a cataloging issue than a technical issue, I wanted to find out how > other > institutions are determining what is a book and what is an eBook. > Obviously > there must be some set of criteria in a MARC record that differentiates > a > book from an eBook. > > I am posing the following questions to other VUFind institutions: > > 1.) How do other institutions catalog eBooks? > > 2.) If you have modified the format.bsh bean shell script, what > modifications have you made to have a more reliable format assignment > for > eBooks? > > Thanks, > > Phil > > ------------------------------ > > Philip Shafer > Library System Services > Rowan University Library > 201 Mullica Hill Rd > Glassboro, NJ 08028 > 856-256-4418 > 856-256-4924 Fax > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as > DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > VuFind-General mailing list > VuF...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VuFind-General mailing list VuF...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general |