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APIS: Berkeley Metadata Review:
8/2003 file submission

          Path: Digital Library Projects  : APIS : Partners : Berkeley

  1. Missing dd510_dd fields (Duke Databank Citations) (ca. 1400 records)

    For future reference, see instructions at:

    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/apis/documentation/ddbdp.html

    especially Note 8.

    In order to get these in process for the next round of data loading, I've gone ahead and created a set of DDBDP-formatted citations based on the presence of P.Tebt. (etc.) in the incoming dd510 fields. In the spreadsheet referenced below, there are up to 3 dd510_dd fields per record. Since these are mechanically generated, they include bogus links to literary papyri and documentary papyri volumes not yet available in the DDBDP.

    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/apis/berkeley/input/ddbdp_generation.xls

    My suggestion is that someone in your shop find a way to review the DDBDP-type citations in the spreadsheet, cull out any incorrect ones, and then amalgamate these fields into your central database. Or you may be able to find an alternate way to generate needed DDBDP citations, as I believe John Weise did at Michigan.

    When inputting new records into your system, however, or adding publication information to existing records, you'll probably want either to define new fields for the parallel manual input of these structured citations, or else generate them semi-automatically in the input system when keying traditional citations, or else generate them automatically in some fashion each time you create extract files to send to the central APIS database. (This last alternative will probably be more error-prone.)

  2. Invalid language codes (ca. 17 recs.)

    dd041, e.g. 'grc?', 'dem?' or 'grcd'

    berkeley.apis.3735
    berkeley.apis.3738
    berkeley.apis.3740
    berkeley.apis.3741
    berkeley.apis.3744
    berkeley.apis.3745
    berkeley.apis.3788
    berkeley.apis.3889
    berkeley.apis.3890
    berkeley.apis.3918
    berkeley.apis.4152
    berkeley.apis.4063
    berkeley.apis.4087
    berkeley.apis.4292
    berkeley.apis.4293
    berkeley.apis.4300
    berkeley.apis.4301
    berkeley.apis.3232

  3. Missing presentation (structural) metadata data (ca. 600 records)

    These records have the "Part" structure, but no corresponding "Presentation" structures (i.e., links to images, etc.).  Are there images for these records? If not, no "Part" fields should be included.


    EXAMPLES

    a) berkeley.apis.1015

        cuPart_caption | 1 | Recto
       cuPart_no | 1 | 1
       cuPart_section | 1 | recto

    b) berkeley.apis.850

    cuPart_caption | 1 | Frame 1/4 Verso
    cuPart_caption | 2 | Frame 2/4 Verso
    cuPart_caption | 3 | Frame 3/4 Verso
    cuPart_caption | 4 | Frame 4/4 Verso
    cuPart_no | 1 | 1
    cuPart_no | 2 | 2
    cuPart_no | 3 | 3
    cuPart_no | 4 | 4
    cuPart_section | 1 | verso
    cuPart_section | 2 | verso
    cuPart_section | 3 | verso
    cuPart_section | 4 | verso


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