Improving coverage of the National Bibliographic Database

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Improving coverage of the National Bibliographic
Database

• Roxanne Missingham

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Contributors holdings
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Increasing coverage

• Music collections
• Resources for People with Disabilities
• Visual arts collections
• Government metadata
• Theses
• CJK

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Increasing sources

• SCIPIO
• OCLC WorldCat extended by 3 years
• Singapore National Union Catalogue

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Quality improvement for NBD and CJK database

• over 480,000 duplicate records were detected and
  resolved automatically, with holdings added to a
  preferred record
• approximately 110,000 records on the Kinetica CJK
  deleted
• subject headings updated
• incorrect coding for sound recordings corrected
  (18,000 records)
• bibliographic records on the NBD for material in
  Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts moved.

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Supporting quality records and processes

• Cataloguing workflows workshops
• Kinetica cataloguing guidelines online
• New BatchUpdate service
• New Search interfaces

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Future directions

• Coverage of collections (recommendations from
  NRSWG and NRSPC)
• Data sources British Library and Library of
  Congress Catalogues
• Project on Data Quality