 |
 |
Error during command authentication.
Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started.
> Has anyone contracted for authority clean-up with a vendor who has been > able to handle the above situations correctly? Ten years ago, NYU contracted with WLN (before it was bought by OCLC but after it was the authority cleansing unit of BNA) to do processing based on our authority records (not on the bibs). It was new for them and new for us, and generally speaking not very effective. I asked my last contact at WLN/OCLC (Bob Thomas) about the revised art subject headings and he said that he thought some of the work they'd done on our records might enable them to do the kind of conflation of headings that the revised art subject headings entails. I don't know if Bob Thomas is still with the MARS authority control service which is now part of Backstage. The means of processing our records would have precluded doing it for us; that is, you can't do it from the authority records. > If so, who? We are now in the process of migrating from Geac to VTLS. We have looked at authority control vendors and pretty much settled on LTI. We looked at their literature, called or emailed some customers of LTI and Marcive, and then talked with a sales rep at LTI. > did you > have to contract for manual review to fix these problems? LTI says they have a minimal manual review that comes with processing. We do not plan on contracting for manual review beyond that. I'm quite distressed at the bad revisions you're getting. It would be better to just have the old headings. When I was doing some searching for a presentation on the revised art subject headings a couple years ago, I found several opacs where they had clearly decided to change the heading with chronology to the right form and not worry about the broader heading. That is, they changed "Art, Modern -- 19th century -- France -- Paris" to "Art, French -- France -- Paris -- 19th century" but kept "Art, French -- France -- Paris." We did some of this at NYU but I have mostly cleaned up the headings record-by-record. I have found that LC has mostly fixed their records. For those records in your database which have LC copy, you might be able to arrange some replacement of LC's subject headings?? I didn't myself usually go to check the LC record to see what they'd done; it was easier to do the "translation" myself. The translating did however lead me to a bigger question about the revised subject headings. Maybe I'll bring that question to CPDG in Banff. Basically, the question is if you put chronology deep in the subject heading (as the 3rd or 4th subfield or deeper), do you include multiple headings with different time periods if more than one period? Or do you just drop chronology? Good luck. I'll bring you a drink to your muttering corner spot. On the rocks? Salt? Sherman Clarke New York University Libraries [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]