MARCIVE - An Overview Part one of an authority workshop presented September 2001 by: Jenifer Marquardt Assistant Authorities Librarian University of Georgia

What does MARCIVE do? 1. Receives your bibliographic records 2. Processes them according to the Ongoing Authorities Profile you established 3. Delivers to you any authority records they have not sent you in the past that you need to have based on bib. records just processed

What does MARCIVE do? 4. Sends you reports of the results of bibliographic record processing 5. Sends you changed authority records if they have sent you the original authority record (Notification Service) 6. Responds promptly if you have questions

What reports? Full statistical report provided free Optional reports – you make choice each year Unrecognized main headings Unrecognized geographic subdivisions Multiple matches Heading activity report Verified without change All authority records provided

Let’s take a look at each type of report Full Statistical Report – called MARCIVE Bibliographic Authority Control Statistics Useful to see: what processing is being done what types of headings are being used what areas might be problems

Includes basic statistics

Also very specific statistical categories such as:

Another category

Also includes code list of type of correction made seen in the Heading correction activity report EXAMPLES: CN- The original tag identifier code was corrected to direct order CORPORATE name [X10(2)]. D - The $d subfield (birth/death date) in a personal name was verified or corrected. PS- The original tag identifier code was corrected to a PERSONAL surname [X00(1)]. $t- An initial article has been removed from a title ($t subfield).

Unrecognized main headings These headings are not necessarily wrong – just no authority record exists A lot of authors are not established – or at least, they are not established at the time you and MARCIVE process their first work Set priorities If a 650 is listed, for example, it is very often wrong

System Number (035a) Tag and Indicators Heading If you print this report, use landscape setting. Year of pub.

Lets look at some specific lines Uniform titles often do not have authority records established for them

Author headings – 100, 110, 111, 600, 610, 611, 700, 710 & 711s Many authors and corporate bodies are not in the authority file when processed Good headings to postpone fixing or reviewing – give time for heading to be established in the authority file.

Subjects (other than 600s, 610s & 630s) These are almost always true errors Should be a high priority

Series headings – 400, 410, 411, 440, 800, 810, 811 & 830 These are very often true problems as well for us, as we have two folks trained to establish series in the national file 810 1b A^Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949-) ^B^Mecklenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv.^T^Verèoffentlichung

Unrecognized Geographic Subdivisions Report Most of the entries in the report are not problems. They arise because the form in the authority record does not match the usage in the bibliographic record 650s Example: 151 in authority record has: Laredo (Tex.) 650 would present that as: |z Texas |z Laredo

Other Non-Problems The terms “Metropolitan Area,” “Region,” and “Suburban Area” can be added to geographic headings. There does not have to be an authority record, and there often is not.

Common Problems in the Unrecognized Geo. Subd. Rpt. Non-geographic information appears in delimiter z that should be in a different subfield (v, x, y) |z Description and travel |z Membership |z Statistics |z Public opinion |z 20th century

Common problems continued Geographic information has simple misspelling |z Indua |z Great Gritain |z Swden |z Developing countreis

Other less common problems Delimiter symbol missing |z Georgia x History Spacing |zSanta Cruz

View of a typical report page

Multiple Matches Report This report shows headings which MARCIVE did not change because there were multiple headings which the programming thought might match This is another report for which you should choose your landscape printing option

A typical page

What to do? Search OCLC Your heading may not have a matching authority record There are often more possibilities than those listed on the report For instance, Braun, Otto, |d could have been set up without dates at all, using a fuller form of name, etc. For example: Braun, Otto Rudolf

Heading Activity Report This report shows what the heading was and what it was changed to. It can also show a code (explained in the statistical report) that tells what type of action was taken to correct the heading

|a Mazoyer, Aelis changed to: Mazoyer, Emelie, |d

This time a code is present |a Canadian Music Centre. CN |a Canadian Music Centre CN- The original tag identifier code was corrected to direct order CORPORATE name [X10(2)].

Another coded change |a Ethnology |z Hong Kong. Z |a Ethnology |z China |z Hong Kong. Z - For subject headings, a geographic subdivision ($z subfield) was corrected.

Useful Report? This might be a useful report to monitor the changes MARCIVE is making. To see what sorts of errors you are making as a cataloger We used at first to see what MARCIVE did and did not do, but with plenty of real problems to work on we decided to drop this report after the first year.

Verified Without Change Report This lists headings MARCIVE was successfully able to match against the LC authority file. No problems in this report, so not very useful

All authority records report This report just literally duplicates each authority record provided.

Notification report This is very similar – lists the authority records supplied because of a change. It has the new authority record and the record it replaces. You can pick up some important info. here if you don’t get it reported elsewhere – cancelled records – but a tedious method to use.

One problem that MARCIVE can’t really help us on is: Gap records – those authority records which are newly created but not yet in MARCIVE’s file. They get LC’s authority file weekly. Takes LC a while to pick up new authority records from OCLC, RLIN. If you or another NACO library create a heading, it will commonly not get to MARCIVE for 3 weeks This means that MARCIVE might resolve the heading on your bibliographic record incorrectly – changing it to match something else in the file

What to do? Can delay sending records to MARCIVE. We are doing that with one special project group that is creating and revising many, many headings Can check back on headings you create to see that they were resolved correctly and correct those that were not Not much to do for headings that other Libraries created and you don’t know about

How do I access the reports? Sent electronically as related files when the bibliographic records are returned. UGA has password protected web access – really easy to go in and view or print what you need If you don’t have easy access, you can ask your server administrator to set something similar up

Here is a typical notification

Here is our access

Related files – reports of bibliographic file processing

Related, related 2, related3, etc… Each a different type Full statistical reports Unrecognized main headings reports

Example report

Monthly reports also have action taken during bulk load

Files under monthly report Error file will hold any authority record that Voyager was not able to load due to incorrect formatting - usually two fields normalize the same and create internal conflict

Discard file holds records that could not be added, merged, or replaced because there were multiple records above the replace threshold or the warning threshold

UGALALL is the complete file of authority records loaded

The log file shows the results of the authority file load. At the end is this statistical compilation.

The delete file shows cancelled authority records. These records could not be loaded into GIL and are dumped into one file that makes it easy to find them.

Documentation for GIL Bulkimport file descriptions are in the Technical manual – part named “Additional Files” (for Voyager they begin on page 59)