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January 2020 :: Best practices for editing WorldCat bibliographic records

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Charlene Morrison and Shanna Griffith presented: Best practices for editing WorldCat bib records. Their presentation included spot-the-error audience participation poll questions. The main focus of this presentation was correcting cataloging errors to conform to cataloging guidelines.

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February 2020 :: Best practices for enriching WorldCat bibliographic records

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Hayley Moreno and Cynthia Whitacre presented Best Practices for Enriching Worldcat Bibliographic Records.

  • Hayley Moreno described in detail the difference between Editing, Enriching and Enhancing bibliographic records in  WorldCat. She also provided an Overview of Levels of Cataloging.
  • Cynthia Whitacre talked about Enrichment. She explained adding fields that are not already present in existing records in WorldCat, which fields you can and cannot add and why.

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March 2020 :: Punctuation updates and policies

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Robert Bremer presented: Punctuation updates and policies. The presentation provides the rationale for the removal of punctuation, with the main focus on creating and editing records based on these updates and policies.

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April 2020 :: Updates to record validation and the OCLC MARC update

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Jay Weitz and Bryan Baldus presented on updates to record validation and the OCLC MARC update. The topic included the principles behind validation and some real life examples of some of the common messages you may see.

May 2020 :: The mysterious 3xx fields

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Robin Six and Jay Wietz presented on the mysterious 3xx fields. Robin provided a breakdown of the fields along with examples showing how the fields are used in bibliographic records and Jay covered the vocabularies used within these fields along with the current best practices associated with these fields.

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June 2020 :: Updates on OCLC encoding levels

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Robert Bremer and Cynthia Whitacre presented on the Updates on OCLC encoding levels. Robin provided a breakdown of the fields along with examples showing how the fields are used in bibliographic records and Jay covered the vocabularies used within these fields along with the current best practices associated with these fields.

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August 2020 :: Unraveling the Mysteries of a Merge and DDR Improvements

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Cynthia Whitacre introduced the session, informing participants that today's topic, and the topics for the remainder of this year's sessions, were selected from topics suggested from past user survey responses. Shanna Griffith presented a background view of merging and Metadata Quality staff’s use of Journal History (an internal tool) to investigate possible incorrect merges. Laura Ramsey presented on improvements to DDR (Duplicate Detections and Resolution). Joining them during the Question & Answer section were Robert Bremer and Jay Weitz.

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September 2020 :: Connexion macros

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Robert Bremer and Robin Six gave an overview of Connexion Macros. Robert explained the OCLC Macro language along with the different statements that users can make such as conditional statements. He also talked about several example macros that appear in the OCLC Macrobook. Robin then walked through the creation of a custom macro and highlighted documentation for learning how to make your own macros.

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October 2020 :: Linked data, and the road to learning about it

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Nathan Putnam & Cynthia Whitacre introduced the sessions, informing participants that that day’s topic, and the topics for the remainder of this year's sessions, were selected from topics suggested from past user survey responses. The presentation provided by Charlene Morrison covered the basics of linked data; how OCLC has been and continues to work with linked data, as well as how Metadata Quality staff are participating. Then concluded with some resources for furthering your understanding of linked data within the library community. Joining them during the Question & Answer section were Becky Dean, Robert Bremer, and Shanna Griffith.

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November 2020 :: OMG, there are so many 5xx fields, what do I do?

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Hayley Moreno and Cynthia Whitacre presented on MARC 5xx fields. The fields covered in this presentation were those that are “Required if applicable” for full level records that include fields 500, 501, 502, 504, 508, 511, 513, 515, 518, 525, 526, 532, 533, 534, 538, 545, 546, 547, 550, 555, 580, and 588. Information was also shared on what fields will transfer as a result of a merge transaction.

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