Hope this is of interest to the list.
OCLC PICA, in partnership with The Combined Regions (TCR), has completed
the roll-out of phase one of a series of enhancements that improve the
quality and the breadth of data available through the UnityUK national
resource sharing service. The first phase of data enhancements has been
carried out by OCLC PICA in response to feedback from users and the next
phase is due to begin in summer 2007.
The data enhancement programme consists of three key strands. First, the
data that was imported from the former UnityWeb service has been cleaned.
Records have been de-duplicated, in one case, a single ISBN was present no
less than 40 times. Furthermore, non-existing items were removed and
(where necessary) data within each record has been moved to the
appropriate MARC field. As a result of this project, in excess of
3,300,000 records have had their data made more consistent with MARC rules.
The second development strand integrates the catalogues and holdings
information from the four main locations providing resources for the
visually impaired. Inclusion of these catalogues brings a unique aspect to
the UnityUK union catalogue. Data from the catalogues of the Royal
National Institute for the Blind, National Library for the Blind, CALIBRE
and The Torch Trust will be loaded into UnityUK.
Finally, the development programme addresses the quality and depth of
holdings records within the service. Complete database loads have been
carried out for around 70 UnityUK member libraries and 8 million high
quality BL records, with holdings, will be loaded over the summer 2007.
www.unity-uk.com
www.combinedregions.com
www.oclcpica.org
Apologies for cross-posting
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