Although K-State is not an enhance institution, we have considered becoming one for select formats and the information presented is always valuable. OCLC announced the Expert Community Experiment has become a permanent and is no longer an experiment. All of the functionality available during the experiment has been made permanent. Between February 15-August 2009, the Experiment Community Experiment yielded 108,000 record fixes. Enhance level authorizations will still have additional functionality. Under consideration is whether or not enhance members will be able to edit PCC records and make type code changes.
Other notes:
- Always controversial, OCLC will be re-evaluating the notion of bibliographic credits for record enhancements and the monetary values assigned to specific activities.
- OCLC will be involved in the testing of newly defined RDA fields.
- The next OCLC MARC update is scheduled for May 2010
- OCLC will not be doing any automated updates of AACR2 records to RDA records
- OCLC plans to update 4XX/8XX fields sometime in 2010 to reflect upcoming obsolescence of the 440 field
- OCLC's duplicate detection software (DDR) is returning. The software was used between 1991-2005 for automated record merges. With the new software, OCLC is hoping to work through every record in Worldcat and run each new batch record sets through to avoid duplicates. The DDR software will have numerous levels of hierarchy in order to prevent accidental merges.
- Current record enhancement projects include remove over 926,000 terminal periods from authority records, integrated resource record cleanup, addition of 034 data for cartographic materials and conversion of e-mono records into provider neutral e-mono records.
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