a propos of different languages and scripts in authority records ....
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From: Beth Picknally Camden <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:53 AM
Subject: [nonenglishaccess] [Fwd: [PCCLIST] Authority Non-Latin
Reference Project Completed]
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Subject: [PCCLIST] Authority Non-Latin Reference Project Completed
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:47:30 -0500
From: David W Reser <[log in to unmask]>
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NACO colleagues:
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that OCLC has completed
the pre-population of the NACO authority file with non-Latin
references (authority 4XX fields) derived from non-Latin bibliographic
heading fields in WorldCat, a use of data-mining techniques originally
developed for the WorldCat Identities project. The pre-population
project, which began in mid-July, added non-Latin script references to
497,576 name authority records for personal names and corporate
bodies.
**For NACO catalogers, this means that the moratorium on updating
100/110 authority records that existed prior to July 2008 to add
non-Latin script references is now lifted. All name authority records
are now candidates for the addition of non-Latin script references.
Thanks for your patience during this period.**
LC hopes to announce soon a process by which catalogers that have been
examining the non-Latin script references added by this project can
contribute to the development of policies and practices for the
future, such as the issues raised in the white paper on non-Latin
script references in name authority records (see
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html).
Special thanks to Robert Bremer, and colleagues at OCLC, for all the
efforts to make this pre-population a reality.
Dave Reser
LC Policy & Standards Division
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