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Re: [VuFind-General] ebooks and Formats
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From: Sandford, M. <SAN...@wp...> - 2010-02-17 16:25:53
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In this particular example, I can see nothing at all in the record explaining the 006 and 007 fields, or the 655 genre/form heading for electronic books. The URLs are for LOC provided table of contents and publisher descriptions (which we, and many other institutions strip out automatically, since they're not indexed and never seem to be used by patrons). In this specific case, it looks like bad cataloging on someone's part, but so many hands have touched that particular record in OCLC it's hard to say who's responsible. My suggestion: delete the 007, 006, and 655 at least, and delete the 856s just for the sake of removing clutter from the catalog. There are e-book versions of this title, but OCLC has different records for them. Mark Sandford Special Formats Cataloger David and Lorraine Cheng Library William Paterson University 973-720-2437 -----Original Message----- From: Philip Shafer [mailto:sh...@ro...] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:16 AM To: Demian Katz; vuf...@li... Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] ebooks and Formats This makes sense, are you still using the leader to determine if the material is a book. So, if the material is a Book and it's a Computer file then the material is an eBook. Check out the following record in our catalog: http://catalog.lib.rowan.edu/find/Record/390016/Details#tabnav It's obviously a book, that is on your shelf, however it does have some 856 fields which is why, I'm assuming, the 007 is listing this as a computer file. Is this a fault with cataloging or is VUFind making too general of an assumption? -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 09:57:55 -0500 > To: Philip Shafer <sh...@ro...>, "vuf...@li..." > <vuf...@li...> > Subject: RE: ebooks and Formats > > 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 |