Problems with Authority
One of the projects of the HathiTrust’s U.S. Federal Government Documents Program is to develop a metadata registry of every work published by the Federal government, for which I am the principal data wrangler and mangler. Measuring the completeness of the corpus and therefore our success and failure is difficult. One way to measure completeness is to evaluate a smaller known subset. Are we missing records for agencies that should be represented in the corpus or are there suspicious gaps in the publication history? Before we answer that question, we have to be able to reliably identify authors. Read More
About Chua Junjie
Junjie is a Scholarly Communication librarian (research impact and copyright). He has an honours degree in Psychology from NUS and a Masters of Information Studies from NTU. In his free time, he enjoys learning foreign languages, playing the piano, fine arts, fiddling with R programming, inferential statistics – e.g. GLMs, predictive modelling & more.
22. February 2018 by Chua Junjie
Categories: General |
Tags: MARC records, Meta-data |
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