What's next to OCLC Pinyin Conversion

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What's next to OCLC Pinyin Conversion?
OCLC Suite Meetings at 2002 AAS Saturday, April
6, 2002 330 p.m. - 500 p.m. Abraham J.
Yu University of California, Irvine
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Pinyin Conversion Clean-up

• What needs to be cleaned up?

• Clean-up steps at UCI

• Pinyin conversion problems

• Examples of incorrectly
• converted records

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What Needs to be Cleaned up?

• Authority Records

Local Database

• Bibliographic Records

WorldCat
Online Name Authority File
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Clean-up Steps at UCI

• Library Systems loading converted Pinyin
• records back to the local system by batch

• Authority Control Coordinator cleaning
• up authority records after each loading

• Authority Control Coordinator running a
• review file for records marked for review

• Chinese catalogers reviewing the review
• file and performing the clean-up process

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Pinyin Conversion Problems

• Records changed to another form

• Converted report may have unconverted records

• Unconverted report may have converted records

• Records that were not converted were not listed
• in unchanged fields report

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hsueh was not converted to xue
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hsueh was not converted to xue (WorldCat)
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tzu was not converted to ci
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tzu was not converted to ci (WorldCat)
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chi was not converted to ji (local WorldCat)
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Pei was not converted to Bei (WorldCat)
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Canton was not converted to Guangzhou
(WorldCat)
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Peking was not converted to Beijing (WorldCat)
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Shanxi should be Shaanxi (NAF)
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Shanxi should be Shaanxi (NAF)
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Shanxi should be Shaanxi (NAF)
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Pei ta huang was not converted (WorldCat)
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Beidahuang should be separated (WorldCat)
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Tianzhou should be Tianchou (WorldCat)
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mu gu should be mu lu (WorldCat)
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Gao Shi shi should be Gaoxiong Shi (WorldCat)
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Incorrect Subject Heading for Lolos (WorldCat)
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Correct Subject Heading for Lolos is Yi (Chinese
people)
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Luxian should be Lu Xian (WorldCat)
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Feng Xian xian should be Fengxian Xian
(WorldCat)
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Authority record for Fengxian Xian
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shi (teacher) was treated as Shi (city) (NAF)
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kuan was not converted to guan (NAF)
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Rejected English record actually was converted