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Magda El-Sherbini Head, Collection Description and

Access Department The Ohio State University Library

Background

OSU Linked data project

Remarks

Next steps

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The ALCTS (Association for Library

Collections and Technical Services)

Steering Committee to oversee the

implementation of the recommendations

contained in the report of the ACLTS Task

Force on Non-English Access 2007-2009

http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alc

ts/files/content/ianda/nonenglish/0510_f

inal_report.pdf

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http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/ianda/nonenglish/0510_final_report.pdf




Assign the ALCTS Subject Analysis

Committee (SAC) working with

appropriate library organization, to study

the needs of library users for multilingual

subject access in the appropriate

script(s), and to propose steps to address

those needs

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Extremely vague.

Broad.

A research project that might never be

completed.

Is outside SAC’s scope. SAC doesn’t do

much research on end users or their

needs.

Promote research on the non-English

subject access.

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Promote research on the non-English

subject access.

An Assessment of the Need to Provide

Non-Roman Subject Access to the Library

Online Catalog. Cataloging &

Classification Quarterly. Volume 49, Issue

6, 2011

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http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wccq20?open=49#vol_49

http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wccq20?open=49#vol_49

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wccq20/49/6

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wccq20/49/6

End users were not completely

dissatisfied with the current library

catalog;

end users and librarians want a system

That is more open to multilingual subject

headings;

Highlighted areas of opportunity for

libraries to make significant

improvements to the catalog.

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Fulbright Grant

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

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Search OCLC for copy

• No verification of access point

Create original records only in their OPAC

• Search OCLC Authority file and download

• Create access points based on AACR2

Daily report and post cataloging authority

processing

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Daily List of Access Points


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Search for “media literacy” in the local VIRTUA

database to check for duplication

Search the LC/OCLC Authority File and

download the authority record

If the authority record is not found, the

cataloger creates a new record locally.

For either downloaded or newly created

authority records, search the BA database to

determine if there are items under term in

another language that is equivalent

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Search

OCLC

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Export the record to their local

system

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Edit the record

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Result

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How it works?

What is the result?

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In the daily report, the cataloger finds the

subject “Database management”

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Adding the French and Arabic equivalent terms

to the English Authority record

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Adding the English and French equivalent terms to

Arabic Authority record

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Notice: $2 is for

the Source of

heading or

term


Adding the English and Arabic equivalent terms to the French Authority record

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User’s ability to search materials by

subject in three languages and different

scripts.

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Searching by Arabic Term

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Searching by the English Term

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Cross references

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Searching by the French Term

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Extensive work has been done to manually map

concepts from different knowledge

organization systems (LSCH, Rameau, and

Arabic Subject headings), which is a tedious

and expensive process

Mapping depends on the cataloger’s

understanding of the concepts in these three

languages

Sometimes the concepts can be used to mean

something else in different languages.

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Started in February 2015 Established a basic guidelines Requested some MARC fields to be

indexed in the online catalog Decided on the Arabic Subject Headings

tools to use Future: Linking the Arabic subject

heading to the LSCH through the authority record

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MARC fields: Use 6xx second indictor 7. Arabic subject headings are assigned from : (Qa’imat

ru’us al-mawdu‘at al-‘Arabiyah al-qiyasiyah lil-maktabat wa-marakiz al-malumat wa-qawaid al-bayanat (QRMAK)

• General subject headings list

• The most up to date list (published 2001)

• A subject cataloguing manual is available in the introduction

• Includes free-floating subdivisions

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When the term is taken from the Arabic

Subject Heading, use in $2 qrmak to

indicate that the source of the subject is

specified.

When term is not in qrmak, add locally

assigned term in $2 local/OSU

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Structure the Arabic subject terms based on FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology )

structure. It is a:

• simple syntax

• easy to understand, control, apply, and use

• Support faceted retrieval

However, there are some differences between “FAST” and the Arabic terms construction and formulation of terms due to differences in Arabic language structure.

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Lebanese AU Lib. Uses $4 for

“Source not

specified

OSU Lib. Uses

$7 for source is

specified in $2


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Select

Browse

WorldCat


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Possibility to create an Arabic subject authority center that would serve the Arab world through cooperative arrangements.

The possibility of developing resource sharing and cooperation on a global scale.

The Need to established procedures for creating standard forms for Arabic subject headings.

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American Univ. of Sharjah


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American Univ. of Beirut Lebanese American Univ.


Planning to add Arabic Subject Headings

for Legacy records.

Add other languages such as Chinese

and Korean.

Explore the possibility of linking Non-

Roman terms to the LC authority File.

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