Cataloging in CORC: A work in progress

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 89-109

  Edmunds, Jeff ^a   Brisson, Roger ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalog); Dublin Core; Library catalogs and cataloging; Metadata; Organization and control of internet resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039677565     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v04n01_09     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Background information on the Penn State CORC Taskforce can he found at: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/o/rob1/corc/
2. OCLC maintains an extensive Website for CORC General background information on the CORC Project can be found at: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/corc/about/ about.htm
3. Other than an automatically generated title (and perhaps the name of the page creator), very few Web pages currently possess useful descriptive metadata. The intent in making a standard like Dublin Core a simple one to learn is to foster the use of metadata by authors themselves in describing their Websites.
4. See the official Dublin Core Website for additional information on this evolving standard (http://purl.org/dcf).
5. The InterCat database contributed approximately 50,000 records to CORC, and NetFirst around 100,000 records. The latter service began in 1996 and is currently available in WorldCat as a database of Internet resources that presents to the user concise, index-like records.
6. An overview, along with functional requirements, of cataloging in CORC can be found at: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/corc/ppt/199910/1099corccatattrain.ppt
7. See the chapter "Insert Diacritics and Special Characters" in the Edit Records part of the CORC System User Guide for a Full description of how to insert diacritics in CORC. As noted, diacritic insertion is similar to the older OCLC Prism system, where a character string with pipes represents the diacritic. For example, the German word täglich would be represented as 't{pipe}um{pipe}aglich' in CORC. As one could surmise, this has not endeared CORC to the many academic catalogers in North America or in those countries with languages possessing diacritics, who must manually convert all the diacritics taken from a Website to the piped character form necessary for the CORC database.
8. At meetings during the 2000 ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio, OCLC announced it would be implementing some form of the Master Record concept in the production version of CORC, but it was unclear at this early stage exactly how this would be structured in CORC.
9. An interesting exposition of granularity can be found in Carl Lagoze's "From Static to Dynamic Surrogates," D-Lib Magazine, June 1997 (http://www.dlib.org/ dlib/june97/06lagoze.html).
10. See http://orc.rsch.oclc.org:5061/ for a general description of the OCLC WordSmith Project.
11. A list of general articles and other resources on Dublin Core can be found at Penn State's CORC Taskforce Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/ r/o/rub1/corc/dublin_core_resources.htm
12. See current OCLC research using DDC for classifying Web resources at its Knowledge Organization Research Website: http://www.oclvc.org:5047/~vizine/kor/ index.htm
13. As of the fall 1999 CORC meeting, there were well over 100 institutional participants from around the world, and the number was growing rapidly. Most of the participants were academic libraries, with a significant number of government libraries also involved.
14. See the CORC Documentation page at: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/corc/ documentation/index.htm
15. A brief summary of the important issues discussed at the fall 1999 CORC meeting, composed by one of the authors of the present article, can be found at: http://www.persanal.psu.edu/faculty/r/o/rob1/carc/fall1999meetig.htm