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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: An evaluation of the quality of Chinese-language records in the OCLC OLUC database and a study of a rule-based data validation system for online Chinese cataloging Abstract: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the quality of Chinese-language records in a large multilingual bibliographic database, and to develop a viable approach for improving its quality. Research questions included current quality of and commonly occurring errors in the member-contributed Chinese records in the OCLC database, and the development of a set of production rules for a data validation system for Chinese online cataloging. 1,306 member-contributed Chinese records were randomly selected from the OCLC database and classified into a OCLC Sample and an RLIN Sample based on source of the record. Errors were categorized into 3 classes and 19 subgroups: Format errors covered incorrect use of tags, indicators, subfield codes, and incorrect punctuation and spaces as required by ISBD; Content errors included missing fields, inconsistency between fields and/or attributes, etc.; and Editing and inputting errors included inadequate spacing, misspelling, etc. |
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Students under Lei Zeng
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- None
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Jane Greenberg - University of Pittsburgh (1998)
- L. Tiffany Evans - University of Pittsburgh (2004)