We’ve been inputting non-Latin headings in bibliographic records for many years—will it be possible to make use of this data?
A6. Yes, OCLC has developed a capability to pre-populate the NACO authority file with non-Latin references (authority 4XX fields) derived from non-Latin bibliographic heading fields in WorldCat, making use of data-mining techniques developed for the WorldCat Identities project. This approach of harvesting non-Latin heading forms from bibliographic records that correspond to the entities in the authority file will provide an immediate value for the authority file, based on the significant intellectual work of the many institutions that have provided non-Latin script heading on bibliographic records for decades. Note that this pre-population will only occur on name authority records for personal names, and corporate bodies tagged 110. For specific examples from WorldCat Identities, see the entries for Sun Yat-sen or Isaac Bashevis Singer to see the array of possible non-Latin scripts related to these names. While OCLC’s algorithms may do some transformations of bibliographic headings to
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