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Notes on 1/18/2005 Michigan APIS Feed

  1. Records present in previous feed, not present in 1/18/2005 feed

    michigan.apis.7
    michigan.apis.2172
    michigan.apis.3968
    michigan.apis.3976
    michigan.apis.3993

  2. Data changes
    1. Michigan removed dates from from dd245_a field and encoded in dd245_f.

  3. Outstanding data problems:
    1. random hyphen character in 653 fields: e.g.,

      dd653 | 2 | -

    2. unsearchable data in dd100_a fields, e.g.,

      dd100_a | 6 | [. . .] Sempronius Valens, father of Lucius Sempronius Saturninus

  4. Outstanding encoding Problems:
    1. Prefer inclusion of 655_phy for physical format type, e.g.,

      dd655_phy | 1 | Papyri

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

      with normalized APIS format terminology.

    2. Prefer inclusion of LS repository code in dd852, e.g.,:

      dd852 | 1 | MiU 

      see: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/apis/documentation/insitution_codes.html , at bottom.

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