http://www.mcdu.unt.edu Inquiry and Analysis Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:10:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 The MCDU Project investigated catalogers’ use of MARC fields, subfields, and other content designation structures (CDS) in over 56 million MARC bibliographic records from OCLC’s WorldCat database. As we confirmed through our analysis that a relatively small percentage of available CDS are typically used, the recurring question was: Why do ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=48 The MCDU Project focused on analyzing cataloger’s use of MARC fields, subfields, and other content designation structures (CDS). The first phase of that analysis examined the use of MARC CDS based on format of material and source of cataloging. We know, however, that over time the CDS available to catalogers ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=47 The frequency count analysis and the identification of commonly used elements provide the basis for addressing another project objective, namely, examining the extent to which the four user tasks identified in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) are supported by catalogers’ utilization of MARC elements in the MCDU dataset. ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=46 One of the research goals of the project, to provide empirical evidence to document MARC21 content designation use by catalogers, has been partially met by the objective of conducting frequency counts of all fields and subfields used in the OCLC WorldCat database. Another research objective is to identify commonly used ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=45 The first phase of our analyses focused on determining the frequency of occurrences of all the MARC content designation structures. We profiled the entire dataset, and the results are listed in the first document below. The entire dataset was separated into 20 databases based on format of material described (e.g., ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=43 The MCDU Project Team’s first challenge was to prepare the 56 million MARC records for analysis. This page has links to documents that provide information about the decomposition of the MARC records, the design of a MySQL database to hold the decomposed records, the database loading, and the validation ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=42 Throughout the MCDU Project. we have publish on this site reports and other documents from the various analyses completed. This page links to documents that contain results of our analysis and other project deliverables. During the project we addressed a variety of project objectives and activities. We have organized documents ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=41 The project team is committed to disseminating information about the MCDU Project. This page has links to presentations and published papers. Presentations October 18, 2007. Georgia Council of Media Organizations (GaCOMO) Conference, Jekyll Island, GA. Presentation by Amy Eklund. Comparing Cataloging Practices: An Analysis of MARC Use by Georgia Catalogers ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=40 The MCDU Project is dedicated to Henriette D. Avram, fondly known as the Mother of MARC. During the 1960s, Henriette let a team of librarians at the Library of Congress in a development effort that resulted in the Machine-Readable Catalog record. An obituary from the New York Times provides a ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=39 Contact: William E. Moen, Ph.D. (wemoen@unt.edu) Shawne D. Miksa, Ph. D. (smiksa@unt.edu) Corrie Marsh (cmarsh@unt.edu) Texas Center for Digital Knowledge PO Box 311068 Denton TX 76203 Tel: 940.565.4552 Fax: 940.565.3101 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (11 May 2005) LIBRARY CATALOG RECORDS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE DENTON, TX – University of North Texas School of Library and ... http://www.mcdu.unt.edu/?p=35