Options for bad worldcat links

[tingletech]

Tom and I just went through one set of links for http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6jm2cqq

More do not resolve than resolve. I think changing to do a author/title search as with the bibliographic resources in WorldCat might be better. You will want to restrict this to WorldCat archival resources only, as the BL and later the finding aids, will resolve. (For now!!).

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With respect to the WorldCat id issue, how much trouble would it be to do ignore the URL in the WorldCat (just WorldCat) and instead do an author/title lookup as with the WorldCat titles picked up from VIAF? Or even better, try the URL and if it returns nothing, try an author/title search?

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Here's an example of a URL that fails: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122291179

I assume you are looking from here:

http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6qj7kgt , so this would give

ti:Aderente, Vincent, ca. 1880-1941. Vincent Aderente papers, 1906-1960. au: Aderente, Vincent, approximately 1880-1941

under the proposal above to do an author/title search which does not get results, unless I process the <mods>

<mods xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<recordInfo>
<recordOrigin>WorldCat:122291179</recordOrigin>
<recordContentSource>ISIL:US-SNAC</recordContentSource>
</recordInfo>
<name>
<namePart>Aderente, Vincent, ca. 1880-1941.</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre">Creator</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name>
<namePart>Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936.</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre">Creator</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<titleInfo>
<title>Vincent Aderente papers, 1906-1960.</title>
</titleInfo>
<abstract>
Correspondence, 1910-ca. 1934, including 4 letters from Edwin Blashfield; 5 sketches by Aderente; notes, and printed materials on 3 mural commissions executed by Aderente at the Main Post Office in Flushing, N.Y., depicting local historical incidents, at the General Court House in Jamaica, N.Y., ca. 1942-1943, depicting the different periods of law from Egyptian to American, and at the Main Branch of the Lincoln Savings Bank in Brooklyn, N.Y., depicting Lincoln's life; a list of portraits and murals by Aderente, including works by Edwin Blashfield on which Aderente worked as an assistant; a photograph of Aderente; printed material, including many reproductions of Aderente's murals and graphic work, and a series of booklets on the history of the Detroit Library.
</abstract>
<name>
<namePart>Unknown</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/rps">Repository</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
</mods>

except I'm not sure if worldcat can do a double au: search

It should return this: Aderente, Vincent, ca. 1880-1941. Vincent Aderente papers, 1906-1960.

A key word on that string in WorldCat returns this:

http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Aderente%2C+Vincent%2C+ca.+1880-1941.+Vincent+Aderente+papers%2C+1906-1960.&qt=owc_search

Then this:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/vincent-aderente-papers-1906-1960/oclc/849910295&referer=brief_results

It would appear to be the same record, but no longer 122291179 but instead 849910295

Permalink is http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849910295

[tingletech]

I could switch all these links to worldcat into keyword searches in worldcat pretty easily. I'd like to so some tests first before implementing this.

[dpitti]

Tom is evaluating how many do not resolve and from this we will be able to determine how serious the problem is.