HKCAN

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HKCAN Seminar Opening October 4, 2002 Aaron
Blazer ??? Director of International Customer
Sales
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Perspective from LMS vendor

• Millennium system enhancements to support HKCAN
  project
• Successes and future views

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Objectives

• Produce comprehensive search results when 2 (or
  more) valid forms of a Chinese name authority
  heading are searched
• End-user should be able to search the form known
  to them, eg.,?? or Jin, Yong
• Standards-based, following established
  international MARC norms

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Successes.

• Staff end-user experience
• Chinese Name Authority records in the Millennium
  Cataloguing module
• Public end-user experience
• Comprehensive search results in WebOPAC

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Other related features in Staff functions

• Auto-Romanization
• Automatic romanization of Chinese characters to
  PinYin equivalents during record editing,
  importing and exporting
• Automated authority control
• Corrects Bibliographic record headings by
  changing the invalid form of the heading in the
  Bibliographic record to the valid form in the
  Authority record in MARC21 records

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Invalid heading
redirected to the valid forms
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Future Views

• Continue to refine and improve the end-user
  experience via robust enhancement process
• Continue to evaluate developing and emerging
  standards and technologies, eg, MARC21, XML,
  Dublin Core with a view to
• Provide better tools and products to librarians
  as content providers
• Enhance access to information to readers and
  researchers

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