1. Hong Kong Chinese Authority (Name) Project Latest developments CEAL 2002 Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. Maria Lau HKCAN Workgroup

2. Overview  HKCAN Database –Still working on de-duplication –Improved Diacritics and Chinese characters display –Further standardization of record structure and software enhancement is needed –Statistics and sample screens  System vendor support of 7xx redirections –Under testing, will have beta test on individual member libraries –Sample screens

3. HKCAN Database OPAC Screen. Chinese mode English mode

4. Statistics (March 2002)  Total : 79,552  CJK enhanced NAF records : 55%  Created by member libraries : 45%  Growth : ~800 / month

5. Samples of HKCAN records

6. Allow swapping between 1xx and 7xx field.

8. HKCAN OPAC browse display.

9. Regular full record display.

10. Select to view in MARC format

11. Library Catalogue Support of 7xx redirections (Screens from III test site)

12. 7xx 1xx Search of 1xx entry on OPAC. Title browse screen and redirections.

13. Search of 7xx entry. Title browse screen and redirections.

14. Search of romanized see-reference heading, redirection is given.

15. Search key has no exact match, index browse display.

16. Search of Chinese see-reference name.

17. Conclusion  CJK Enhanced records benefits both users and cataloguers  Moving closer to meet the bilingual characteristics of the local community  Labor intensive, but cost and time will be justified in a long run  More issues to be resolved, such as undifferentiated romanized names become differentiable with enhanced CJK, MARC record structure, etc.

18. Thank you Documentation on the project development is available at hkcan.ln.edu.hk