MOUG & WorldCat Local Opportunities and Enhancement

Recommendations for Music, 2008-2013

Rebecca BelfordUniversity at Buffalorbelford@buffalo.edu

MOUG annual conferenceFebruary 27, 2013, San Jose, California

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OCLC   MOUG

EPIC launched 1990    1991 Review of EPICFirstSearch launched 1998 “Final Report of the FirstSearch WorldCat Review

Task Force”  2001 “Evaluation of WorldCat Functionality in the New

FirstSearch Interface” (M. Jenkins)Open WorldCat 2004 “WorldCat Enhancement Recommendations for

Music” (T. Rudnick et. al., Reference Services Committee)

  … Revisions  2007 “WorldCat Enhancement Recommendations”

(Newsletter)WorldCat Local 2008 WorldCat Local discussion  2010 WorldCat Local Enhancement Recommendations for

Music (draft) (Reference Services Committee)

… Updates/revisionsNew FirstSearch Advisory Group

2012 WorldCat Local Enhancement Recommendations for Music (Newsletter)

New FirstSearch beta testing 2013 MOUG 2013

3http://web.archive.org/web/19990428192645/http://www.oclc.org/oclc/fs_new/newfs.ppt, accessed Feb. 18, 2013

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FirstSearch, 1999

http://web.archive.org/web/19990420054709/http://www.oclc.org/oclc/fs/service.htm, accessed Feb. 20, 2013

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WorldCat.org

April 2008 February 2013

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Search Results

WorldCat.org WorldCat Local (U. Delaware)

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WorldCat Local Recommendations, 2010-2012

http://www.musicoclcusers.org/reftools.html, accessed Feb. 5, 2013

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Themes

Small focus, big impactMusic mattersFRBR user tasksLinking

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Successes and progress

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Display production, performer, and place/date notes[508, 511, 518$a]

Before, ca. March 2010 Current, as of February 2013

Current: Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234236961, accessed Feb. 10, 2013

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Production, performer, place/date notes[508, 511, 518$a]

Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123006518, accessed Feb. 5, 2013

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Place/date note[518 $3 $o $d $p]

Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823603021, accessed Feb. 5, 2013OCLC Connexion Client, record #823603021, date stamp 20130108100805.7

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Restore cataloger-supplied contents notes when AllMusic contents are included

Before, circa October 2010 Current, February 2013AllMusic metadata no longer in use

Current: Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25816085, accessed Feb. 10, 2013

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Display and link subject uniform titles (600, 630)

Displayed and fully linked, titles bound to name …with some room for improvement

Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5243831, accessed Feb. 11, 2013Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30979434, accessed Feb. 11, 2013

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Recommendation:Include corporate name main entries in author facet

1102 Beatles (Musical group)AU@ $b eng $c AU@

1102 Beatles (groupe)FRBML ǂb fre ǂc FRBML

1001 Beatles, The.NLGGC ǂe fobidrtb ǂb dut ǂc NLGGC

1102 Beatles (musikkgruppe) ǂ0 (NO-TrBIB)x02013512

SE4M6 ǂe katreg ǂb nob ǂc SE4M6

1000 The Beatles.AU@ ǂb eng ǂc AU@

1102 The Beatles.NLGGC ǂe fobidrtb ǂb dut ǂc NLGGC

1001 The beatles, ǂe Musique.ZWZ ǂe ncafnor ǂb fre ǂc ZWZ

1102 Beatles (groupe : The))FRMCM ǂb fre ǂc FRMCM

1102 Beatles (Grupo musical)BNM ǂe rdc ǂb spa ǂc BNM

…with some room for improvement

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Opportunities for improvement

Link Genre/Form Headings

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FirstSearch enhancement requests, 2006

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Display responsibility near title

Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/260605591, accessed Feb. 14, 2013

Current WorldCat.org responsibility

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Current FirstSearch title/responsibility

FirstSearch WorldCat, accession no. 260605591, accessed Feb. 14, 2013

Links on names link to correct entities

WCL Product Team: large-scale undertaking to utilize VIAF to improve authority-related issues

John Adams link au:Adams, John,

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22Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16803012, accessed Feb. 5, 2013FirstSearch WorldCat, accession no. 16803012, accessed Feb. 5, 2013

Display all elements of field 240 (uniform/preferred title)

WorldCat.org FirstSearch

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FirstSearch enhancement requests, 2006

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Names in search results

WorldCat.org , accessed Feb. 13, 2013

Display analytic/added entry uniform titles (with authors) [with linking functionality]

Before, ca. April 2009Search term “Wachet auf”

Current, as of February 2013Search term “Wachet auf”

25Current: Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30340365, accessed Feb. 14, 2013

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Display analytic/added entry uniform titles (with authors) [with linking functionality]

FirstSearch WorldCat, accession no. 30340365, accessed Feb. 14, 2013 http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4739272, accessed Feb. 15, 2013

Alternative

Bound link

Bound name-title link [100+240]

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Editions and formats

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Multiple icons

Content/carrier mix

008/047 codes(form of composition)

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Format facet changes, 2010-2013

circa March 2010 February 2013

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“Editions and formats”

All editions, limit by format option

“Just this edition’’/“any edition” toggle

Worldcat.org, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31469293, accessed Feb. 14, 2013

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Personal top two

Display conference names• main entries (40742982)• added entries(806025897)• subjects (82537799)

Display title/name-title added entries

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WorldCat Local/WorldCat.org requests so far

• Format/content neutral• Search on linked names lead to correct entity• Allow users to see distinguishing features of

common names• Display [and link] conference names in

headings• Clarify editions and formats• *Include corporate name main entries in

author facet• Display responsibility near title• Include author added entries in author facet• Link genre headings• *Display and link title subject headings

• General functionality/navigation• *Nested parenthetical search capability• Next/Previous record navigation• Enable multiple formats in advanced search• Option to highlight search terms• *Do not replace record information with

third-party metadata

• Notable for music• Fully display [and link] uniform titles and

author-title pairs• Display titles near authors (name-title added

entries)• Display musical presentation statement

• Notable for recordings/AV• *Display production, performer, and

place/date notes• Display new MARC subfields in place/date

note• Explore options for use of content, media,

and carrier fields (3xx-34x), and work and expression 3xx fields, particularly medium

• Explore offering more granular formats in facet, such as 78 rpm discs

* = Visible in WorldCat.org/WorldCat Local as of Feb. 2013

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Credits

• MOUG References Services Committee members • MOUG Board• OCLC: Vince Wortman, Kem Lang, Matt Goldner, Mindy Pozenel,

Cheryl Snowdon, WorldCat Local Product Team• All involved with previous MOUG WorldCat recommendations,

MLA automation requirements, previous WorldCat Local reviews and presentations

• MOUG, MLA, OLAC listserv readers for comments and suggestions

• MOUG members

• . . . and with apologies for unintentional omissions