Sample WadeGiles Records in OCLC

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Sample Wade-Giles Records in OCLC

• A Brief Analysis
• April 2, 2005

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Genesis of This Brief Study

• Hideyuki's email to Eastlib (Jan. 2005?)
• Exchange of emails with Hisako

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Methodology

• Title Keyword Searches
• hsien exceeds system limit
• hsüeh exceeds system limit
• Chung-kuo and hsüeh 406 records
• hsien and chih 244 records
• t'ung and chih 350 records
• 32 record sample selected
• Books format, Chinese language

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Sample Records ti tung and ti chih
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Sample Records ti tung and ti chih
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Sample Record CJK
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Sample Record Romanized

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Characteristics of Sample Records

• Scripts 69 CJK
• 31 Romanized
• Duplication 90 are duplicates
• Source 82 Batch Loaded
• Miscellaneous Some are mixed Wade-Giles
  and Pinyin

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Why Were They Not Converted?

• Hard to Say
• Batch Load Date Cannot Be Determined
• Clues
• 987 Field (Romanization/Conversion History)
• Inputting/Modifying Libraries
• Mostly RLIN Libraries?

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987 Field Analysis(Romanization/ Conversion
History)
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Source Libraries
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Who Can Fix This Problem?

• OCLC Quality Control Staff do not have Chinese
  language capabilities
• Your Help Is Needed!
• Convert Records to Pinyin
• Check and Correct Authorities
• Add Chinese characters, if possible
• Report Duplicates

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How Can We Do It?

• OCLC Enhance Library?
• Convert and Replace Records
• Report Duplicates
• Non-Enhance Library?
• Report using the 952 field
• Work with OCLC to allow reporting of Wade-Giles
  duplicates without converting them first?

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Thank You!

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