Greg Newby wrote:
I don't want to over-specify how I think the workflow should happen. I think that's still to be determined. But the overall flow needs to be somewhat circular: librarians need to import existing PG catalog records, preferably in MARC format, to existing software. (Alev has a couple of programs for this; PGLAF can probably acquire software for other folks who'd like to work a lot on this activity.) Then, updated records would need to be shipped back into the catalog.
I think an easier solution would be to build an ASCII list containing the etext-number and the LoC Call Number for all etexts we have. We would then import the LoC Call Number into a field in the database. The catalog software could then update a number of fields (Subject, LoC Class, Unified Title) automatically from the LoC database (TODO Check copyright status of LoC database !!!) Then we could do a manual pass over the database with the MARC record at hand and fix the author / coauthor attributions, link into wikipedia if an article exists, add summaries etc. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org