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records with multiple OCLC numbers #318

Closed cwulfman closed 7 years ago

cwulfman commented 7 years ago

Hi Cliff and Peter,

We’ve loaded your file to our dev environment to see if there were any additional errors in your data. I’ve found several records with multiple OCLC numbers. Can you modify your output so that only one is output? The issue here is that this causes an error condition, even though the numbers are identical:

001 6425485 (2 OCLC) 035 \$a(OCoLC)ocm47704434 035 \$a(OCoLC)47704434

001 5332913 (2 OCLC) 035 \$a(OCoLC)ocm01639845 035 \$a(OCoLC)1639845

001 5850790 (2 OCLC) 035 \$a(OCoLC)ocn176344117 035 \$a(OCoLC)176344117

001 2003805 (2 OCLC) 035 \$a(OCoLC)ocm01537466 035 \$a(OCoLC)1537466

001 6086734 (2 OCLC) 035 \$a(OCoLC)ocm05218608 035 \$a(OCoLC)5218608

cwulfman commented 7 years ago

Hi Peter,

Does Dana’s message make sense to you? Is this something you can fix? Would you like to talk about it briefly today? I can come out to Alexander Road if that would be more convenient for you, or we can talk on the phone.

—Cliff

cwulfman commented 7 years ago

From Joyce Bell:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joyce E. Bell joyceb@princeton.edu Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 4:42 PM Subject: RE: Fwd: NJP Blue Mountain Dev Load Feedback To: "Peter M. Green" pmgreen@princeton.edu, Clifford Wulfman cwulfman@gmail.com

Hi Cliff,

This message is really about the data, so Peter consulted me. I think the first of her points is easily handled—you can strip out all but the first 035 field which has “OCoLC” in it.

The second issue is connected to the cataloging practice of using a single record for print and reproduction which was a common way to catalog certain reproductions for a long time. The record reflected the print version in all but a few aspects. For the most part these should also be pretty easy—you can strip out the 007 and 533 fields. Some might have a value (probably “a”) in the 008 byte 22 which should be replaced with a blank. Were there more than just these two? If so, I should check them to make sure that they are also straightforward. You will have to make these changes in the file you are sending them, because these are not changes appropriate for our catalog record.

Joyce