"There has been little specific authority activity this year. We were all taking a breather after the intensity of work involved with CLARR and Autoclaim in the previous year. At UF we have been using the BatchBAM software for working with the Yankee records and have begun experimenting with using it on the govdoc indexed files. Some identified refinements are being made right now by Gary Strawn and we are testing them. When we get the kinks out, we will be posting some instructions in ts-plan. There were some problems with Autoclaim and the New Headings List production this spring and these had to be worked on. The implementation of the |v for form divisions created some indexing problems that persisted for a number of weeks until all indexes were regenerated.
Catalyst review does involve some work with looking at authority needs.
Catalyst does allow better views of the guide and index screens, which
help in authority work, and the indexing can go farther in the heading
text string. CLARR-like functionality (verification and validation) and
authority record creation await development." Submitted by Nancy Williams,
May 20, 1999.
Workshop description: Migrating to a new system involves many issues;
one of which is database cleanup. This workshop will focus on data cleansing
in preparation for system migration. The tools that will be employed are
FCLA’s cataloging client, Catalyst and FCLA’s DB2 system,
Arrow.
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their local institution
needs and will have hands-on experience with cleaning their individual
databases. See attached
Data Cleansing Examples.