OCLC CJK USERS GROUP

OCLC-CJK Toolkit 

I. Background

This toolkit attempts to utilize the features and functions fully to expedite the processing of CJK materials in Connexion. In addition to existing features, sharing customized macros with a larger community would be one of our goals as well.

II. Categories

1) Cataloging tools

a. Connexion client Macros 

i. Customized cataloging macros:

1. NACOCJK.mbk CJK NACO macro for Connexion 2.50 (courtesy of Ryan Finnerty, Hideyuki Morimoto and Joel Hahn)

2. HM-temp.mbk Supplemental macro for 8xx (name-title to be used in conjunction with NACOCJK.mbk (courtesy of Hideyuki Morimoto) 

ii. Connexion client macrobook

iii. Share macros, e.g. Joel Hahn’s macros, Walt Nickeson’s macros, Gary Strawn’s Authority Toolkit

1. Korean Romanization macro: Korean2Latin

2. Chinese romanization macro 

b. The icons from toolbar editor:

i. MARC8 characters: 

1. Verify MARC8 (EditMARC-8CharactersVerify)

2. Convert to MARC8 (EditMARC-8CharactersConverttoMARC-8CJK) 

ii. Link (EditLinkingFieldsLinkFields) and unlink (EditLinkingFieldsUnlinkFields) parallel fields

iii. Show my institution record (CatalogingShowInstitutionRecords)

iv. Insert from cited record (EditInsertfromCitedRecord)

v. Guided entry for adding 006 (EditGuidedEntryInsert006<Format>)

c. Text strings with short-cut key

i. 667 Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n

ii. 667 Not the same as

iii. 667 Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.

iv. 5880 [Source of description, e.g., Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar. 2020)]; title from title page.

5880 Online resource; title from PDF title page ([Platform], viewed [month date, year]).

5880 [Source of description, e.g., Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar. 2020)]; title from PDF title page ([Platform], viewed [month date, year]).

v. 500 Cover title.

vi. 504 Includes bibliographical references.

vii. 042 pcc

viii. 77608 $i Online version: $a $t $z $w (DLC) $w (OCoLC) [for monographic records]

ix. 77608 $i Online version:  $t $x $w (DLC) $w (OCoLC) [for serial records]

x. 77608 $i Print version: $t $x $w (DLC) $w (OCoLC)

xi. Parallel fields for 250 1版, 제 1판, 初版, 초판

250 Di 1 ban.

250 Dai 1-han.

250 Che 1-p'an.

250 Chu ban.

250 Shohan.

250 Ch'op'an.

xii. 936 PR 

d. Default Function Keys

e. MarcEdit Plug-ins

i. OCLC Connexion Bib File Reader: calls the Connexion records for editing in MarcEdit and puts records back into the Connexion save file; downloadable in MarcEdit under the task, Plugin Manager

ii. Chinese: AddPinyin (downloadable here)

f. MatchMarc: A Google sheets extension (addon) for batch searching OCLC records by ISBN/ISSN and outputting the OCLC number and other bib info of your “best” record according to the preset criteria through API 

2) WorldCat Collection-Level Settings in Query Collections

3) Reference tools for WorldCat

a. Qwidget for Folio

b. Citations: EndNotes, Refworks, etc.

4) Error reporting

a. Duplicates and merging FAQ

b. Emails:

i. E-mail bibliographic requests to: bibchange@oclc.org

ii. E-mail authority requests to: authfile@oclc.org

5) Non-OCLC resources

a. Chinese

i. Baidu

ii. CALIS

iii. National Library of China

iv. Chinese Name Authority Portal

v. National Central Library (Republic of China (Taiwan))

vi. ALA-LC Chinese Romanization Table

b. Japanese

i. CiNii Books

ii. National Diet Library

iii. Tokyo Metropolitan Libraries

iv. Waseda University Library

v. Webcat Plus

vi. Web NDL Authorities

vii. ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table

c. Korean

i. 국립 국어 연구원 (Kungnip Kugo Yŏn’guwŏn), 표준 국어 대사전 (P’yojun Kugŏ Taesajŏn) (to see standard pronunciation for Romanizing Korean language) 

ii. Naver site (to get information for personal name heading in authority records)

iii. K-Romanizer

iv. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Korean Romanization and Word Division

d. General

i. VIAF

ii. ISNI

iii. Wikidata

iv. ORCID

v. Getty Union List of Names Online

vi. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online

vii. Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms

viii. GNS

ix. ALA-LC Romanization Tables


Note: drafted on 12/21/09 and revised on 2/25/10 by Erica S. Chang, Charlene Chou and Keiko Suzuki; special thanks to Hideyuki Morimoto for sharing his customized macros; revised on 2/23/24 by Hyun Chu Kim, Bie-hwa Ma, Kumiko Reichert and Anlin Yang