[854] in ad-lib
PSR1317
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sarah Mitchell)
Fri Jun 16 13:56:27 1995
To: miriam@clsi.us.geac.com
Cc: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:56:03 EDT
From: Sarah Mitchell <smitchel@MIT.EDU>
Miriam,
The Cataloging Implementation Group met yesterday afternoon to go
over PSR1317 and assign priorities to each of the items in our loader
specification. You mentioned Wednesday that all of the coding
involved in PSR1317 might take 3 months to complete. While we
ultimately need all parts of the specification completed for us to be fully
functional, we have identified several items which we consider
'DROP DEAD HIGH' priority that we must have before loading can go
live:
I.A.1
I.A.2 For each $a in the 019, add the prefix 'ocm" and add
leading zeros to create a fixed length 019 field with
numeric characters. Map each occurrence of 019 $a to
$a in separate 035 fields.
I.A.3
I.B.1
I.B.2
I.B.3
I.B.3.a
I.B.3.b
I.B.4
III.C.
IV.
The following spec items are 'medium' priority.
III.A.
III.B.
The remaining items in the spec are 'low' priority. These must be
completed before we can sign off on the loader. *Please note the
change in wording and the selection of our preferred option in II.B.:
I.A.2.Match each occurrence of 019 $a against the CN index.
Strip the 019 field from the incoming record.
II.A.
* II.B. OPTION 1 modified as follows: 'Cancel' command records:
The cancel holdings transaction is utilized when all
copies of a title are withdrawn from the MIT Libraries
collections. Therefore, when the record has (x03) in
offset 22 of the leader, the cancelled record should check
for matches in the 001 and 035 fields. IF A MATCH IS
FOUND, OVERWRITE THE EXISTING RECORD WITH THE INCOMING
RECORD AND MOVE THE RESULTING RECORD FROM THE BIB FILE
TO THE DELETE WORKFILE.
Thank you for your help in facilitating the work on the specifications.
If you have any questions about our priorities or the specifications,
please let me know. I will be leaving for ALA on Wednesday and
have an off campus meeting Tuesday afternoon, so, today, Friday, or
Monday, are the optimum times to reach me.
After ALA, our implementation group would like to take you up on your
offer to meet with us. Our next critical area is authorities. There
are a number of issues including our authorities specifications and
how Advance does its matching that we would like to discuss with you.
We thought it would be easiest if we could meet in the MIT training
room so that we could use the system to demonstrate some of the areas
that concern us. What dates/times do you have available between June
29 and July 7? Our committee usually meets Thursday afternoons
2-3:30, so, that would be our first preference, I think.
We look forward to meeting with you.
--Sarah Mitchell
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