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Database Quality: Its Cost, Focus, And Future, Karen S. Calhoun
Database Quality: Its Cost, Focus, And Future, Karen S. Calhoun
Karen S Calhoun
Briefly considers three questions: Can we afford OCLC database quality? Where is the best place to focus database quality efforts? Will advances in information technology make data quality efforts obsolete?
How Oclc And Member Libraries Are Improving The Online Union Catalog, Karen S. Calhoun, Nancy Campbell, Donna Gehring
How Oclc And Member Libraries Are Improving The Online Union Catalog, Karen S. Calhoun, Nancy Campbell, Donna Gehring
Karen S Calhoun
Describes programs for cooperatively managing and improving the quality of the OCLC database with respect to duplicate records, records containing insufficient information, incorrect or variant forms of headings, and coding errors. Includes a description of a large, innovative project using "intelligent software" to correct name and subject headings. OCLC expects at least 5 million heading corrections when the project completes late in 1993.