Hong Kong Chinese Authority (Name) Project

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Hong Kong Chinese Authority (Name) Project

• Latest developments
• CEAL 2002 Annual Meeting
• Washington, D.C.
• Maria Lau
• HKCAN Workgroup

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Overview

• HKCAN Database
• Still working on de-duplication
• Improved Diacritics and Chinese characters
  display
• Further standardization of record structure and
  software enhancement is needed
• Statistics and sample screens
• System vendor support of 7xx redirections
• Under testing, will have beta test on individual
  member libraries
• Sample screens

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Chinese mode
English mode
HKCAN Database OPAC Screen.
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Statistics (March 2002)

• Total 79,552
• CJK enhanced NAF records 55
• Created by member libraries 45
• Growth 800 / month

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Samples of HKCAN records
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Allow swapping between 1xx and 7xx field.
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(No Transcript)
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HKCAN OPAC browse display.
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Regular full record display.
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Select to view in MARC format
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Library Catalogue

• Support of 7xx redirections
• (Screens from III test site)

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1xx
7xx
Search of 1xx entry on OPAC. Title browse screen
and redirections.
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Search of 7xx entry. Title browse screen and
redirections.
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Search of romanized see-reference heading,
redirection is given.
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Search key has no exact match, index browse
display.
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Search of Chinese see-reference name.
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Conclusion

• CJK Enhanced records benefits both users and
  cataloguers
• Moving closer to meet the bilingual
  characteristics of the local community
• Labor intensive, but cost and time will be
  justified in a long run
• More issues to be resolved, such as
  undifferentiated romanized names become
  differentiable with enhanced CJK, MARC record
  structure, etc.

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Thank you

• Documentation on the project development is
  available at
• hkcan.ln.edu.hk