Abstract
A meeting in April 2015 explored the potential withdrawal of valuable collections of microfilm held by the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries. This resulted in a project to identify OCLC record numbers (OCN) for addition to OCLC’s Chadwyck-Healey Early English Books Online (EEBO) KBART file.[i] Initially, the project was an attempt to adapt cataloging workflows to a new environment in which the copy cataloging of e-resources takes place within discovery system tools rather than traditional cataloging utilities and MARC record set or individual record downloads into online catalogs. In the course of the project, it was discovered that the microfilm and e-version bibliographic records contained metadata which had not been utilized by OCLC to improve its link resolution and discovery services for digitized versions of the microfilm resources. This metadata may be advantageous to OCLC and to others in their work to transition from MARC to linked data on the Semantic Web. With MARC record field indexing and linked data implementations, this collection and others could better support scholarly research.[i] A KBART file is a file compliant with the NISO recommended practice, Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART). See KBART Phase II Working Group, Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART): Recommended Practice: NISO RP-9-2014 (Baltimore, MD: National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2014), accessed March 14, 2017, http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/rp-9-2014/.
Highlights
Early English Books Online (EEBO), Related Resources and Bibliographic RecordsMuch has been written on EEBO’s inception and continuing development as a collection of digital reproductions of microfilm reproductions of pre-1700 print resources, and on its scholarly value (Kitchuk, 2007; Martin, 2007; Gadd, 2009; Mak, 2013; Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015).[12]Alfred Pollard and Gilbert Redgrave’s A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (“STC”), and the “companion” volume, Donald Wing's Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (“Wing”), respectively, were used in selecting the print resources for filming.[13]
Snapshots of data are sent by EEBO to English Short Title Catalog (ESTC) but there is no guarantee that a correction or revision made to an ESTC entry will be replicated in the corresponding EEBO or vice-versa: neither ESTC nor EEBO will necessarily know when the other made a correction.[17]
As to Gadd’s (2009) critique concerning the lack of a formal synchronization mechanism and increasing likelihood of discrepancies between EEBO and ESTC, further examination of EEBO and ESTC bibliographic record displays such as those shown in Figures 5 and 6 suggest that the British Library is working with ProQuest to align their data
Summary
Much has been written on EEBO’s inception and continuing development as a collection of digital reproductions of microfilm reproductions of pre-1700 print resources, and on its scholarly value (Kitchuk, 2007; Martin, 2007; Gadd, 2009; Mak, 2013; Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015).[12]. As to Gadd’s (2009) critique concerning the lack of a formal synchronization mechanism and increasing likelihood of discrepancies between EEBO and ESTC, further examination of EEBO and ESTC bibliographic record displays such as those shown in Figures 5 and 6 suggest that the British Library is working with ProQuest to align their data It appears a focus of the British Library may be to inform the scholar of the availability of the microfilm and electronic versions of the print resources. Further investigation identified errors of misappropriation of OCN in the KBART file to EEBO version records describing copies of editions filmed at locations other than those noted in the corresponding OCLC records. A proclamation for the adiournement of part of Trinitie terme,” identified in the WCKB as associated with OCN 71492075, links the scholar to a resource described by the EEBO version record as the copy filmed at the British Library.
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