HKCANSeminar & Opening

October 4, 2002

Aaron Blazer

白哲安

Director ofInternational

Customer Sales

Perspective from LMS vendorPerspective from LMS vendor

Millennium system enhancements to support HKCAN project

Successes and future views

ObjectivesObjectives Produce comprehensive search

results when 2 (or more) valid forms of a Chinese name authority heading are searched

End-user should be able to search the form known to them, eg.,金庸 or Jin, Yong

Standards-based, following established international MARC norms

Successes….Successes…. Staff end-user experience

Chinese Name Authority records in the Millennium Cataloguing module

Public end-user experience Comprehensive search results in

WebOPAC

Other related features in Other related features in Staff functions…Staff functions…

Auto-Romanization Automatic romanization of Chinese

characters to PinYin equivalents during record editing, importing and exporting

Automated authority control Corrects Bibliographic record headings by

changing the invalid form of the heading in the Bibliographic record to the valid form in the Authority record in MARC21 records

Invalid heading…

… redirected to the valid forms

Future ViewsFuture Views Continue to refine and improve the end-

user experience via robust enhancement process

Continue to evaluate developing and emerging standards and technologies, eg, MARC21, XML, Dublin Core with a view to: Provide better tools and products to

librarians as content providers Enhance access to information to readers

and researchers

谢 谢 !