======================================================================== Received: from TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL by VM1.HUJI.AC.IL (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7091; Tue, 28 Nov 89 06:16:18 IST Received: by TAUNIVM (Mailer R2.03B) id 2540; Tue, 28 Nov 89 06:17:55 IST Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 08:49:58 CST Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum From: "from Bob Young, University of Sussex Library" Subject: Short entry catalogues To: avrum goodblatt ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Picking up on Peter Graham's message of 17 nov: the fullest account of the work on short entry catalogues done by the Centre for Catalogue Research at the University of Bath, UK is in: Full and short entry catalogues : library needs and uses / Alan Seal, Philip Bryant, Carolyn Hall. - Bath : Bath University Library, 1982. - (BLRD report; 5669). - ISBN 0-86197-048-9. This report contains just the "minimal set of data elements" which would give Mary Nakagawa a flying start. The Bath work was being published at the time we here at Sussex University were beginning to set up catalogue records within a Geac circulation system, and the record format we eventually chose was based very firmly on the Bath recommendations for "maximal-access/minimal redundancy" records. These (non-MARC) records have served us well: eight years on we have converted ALL of our catalogue records to machine-readable form (that's just over 430,000 titles); public access to the catalogue is now entirely through an OPAC (9502 searches on a typical day last week); and the records are easy to manipulate with a report generator for various stock management purposes. If we had been converting to MARC (the equivalent of putting everything one might ever need into a very large suitcase?) we wouldn't be half way through the conversion. Instead we have "cabin baggage" catalogue records: fast, slim and fit! Occasionally, of course, something you'd like isn't in the record, but it's impossible anyway to please all of the people all of the time. (We wrote up some of this Sussex work in two papers in *program*: vol.20 no.1, January 1986, pp.1-25 and (specifically on the OPAC): vol.20 no.2, April 1986, pp.138-150. But my main message is to encourage American librarians to have a good look at the Bath work: it's salutary. Bob Young (b.young@cluster.sussex.ac.uk) Systems Office University of Sussex Library Brighton BN1 9QL England Received: from TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL by VM1.HUJI.AC.IL (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2356; Thu, 30 Nov 89 09:10:41 IST Received: by TAUNIVM (Mailer R2.03B) id 8041; Thu, 30 Nov 89 03:02:09 IST Date: Wed, 29 Nov 89 09:07:46 CST Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum From: 213 MARY NAKAGAWA 209-1345 Subject: is the answer providing links beyond what we have? To: avrum goodblatt ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Thanks to everyone responding to the question on short records I had. I'm still thinking of subject access in the catalog. What's possible in a large database, (such as a database of bibliographic records in MARC format), in improving access with short records? I'd be interested in particularily in back end ideas. My instructor is getting a lot of my mail so can you send this to my new account? (izzyw26@uclavms) Thanks. Mary Nakagawa 2nd yr. MLS, UCLA Grad. School of Library & Information Science Received: from TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL by VM1.HUJI.AC.IL (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 0809; Sun, 17 Dec 89 11:02:43 IST Received: by TAUNIVM (Mailer R2.03B) id 3704; Sat, 16 Dec 89 04:53:22 IST Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 09:49:38 CST Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum From: Steve Cisler Subject: Page recognition software To: Yechiel Greenbaum ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Has anyone had experience using page recognition software (a.k.a OCR software) on slavic, cyrillic, or hebrew fonts? Steve Cisler Apple Library Received: from TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL by VM1.HUJI.AC.IL (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 1300; Sun, 17 Dec 89 11:44:22 IST Received: by TAUNIVM (Mailer R2.03B) id 2579; Sat, 16 Dec 89 20:29:16 IST Date: Tue, 12 Dec 89 08:59:15 CST Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum From: "Christopher W. Donald" Subject: OCR software for languages other than english To: Yechiel Greenbaum ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Does anyone know of optical character recognition software for languages other than english? I am especially interested in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and German. Please reply via direct mail. I will post a summary if people are interested. Christopher Donald Division of Government The University of Kansas DONALD@UKANVM.bitnet