Post #3245923
2025-06-11 16:48 UTC
@kiru@openbiblio.social It's hard for me to see ISNI or VIAF as data that catalogers need to add to MARC records. I would like to see some attempts to assign those algorithmically. Edward Betts did some interesting coding for the Open Library by combining names and book titles to identify an author.
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@kcoyle@mstdn.social 2025-06-11 16:52
@kiru@openbiblio.social As for DDC/UDC/LCC, it should be possible to search hierarchically, seeing what the library has at each node. We can't expect users to magically zero in on a precise category; classification should be all about exploring from general to specific.
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@kiru@openbiblio.social 2025-06-11 18:27
@kcoyle@mstdn.social Not manually. I agree with you that in scale it can be done only programmatically with a human-in-the-loop approach to supervise the results. See e.g. @SvenLieber@hcommons.social work at the BELTRANS project, e.g. https://zenodo.org/records/7372986. I am also doing similar things to extract place names, translators etc. from non authorised MARC fields. Do you have a reference for Edward's work?