Precision and consistency errors in descriptive cataloging

  • Ana Maria Martínez Departamento de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Calle 48 e/6 y 7-5º piso, oficina 528, 1900 La Plata
  • Norma Mangiaterra Departamento de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Calle 48 e/6 y 7-5º piso, oficina 528, 1900 La Plata
  • Rosa Z. Pisarello Departamento de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Calle 48 e/6 y 7-5º piso, oficina 528, 1900 La Plata
  • Edgardo A. Stubbs Departamento de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Calle 48 e/6 y 7-5º piso, oficina 528, 1900 La Plata
  • Alicia S. Cap Departamento de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Calle 48 e/6 y 7-5º piso, oficina 528, 1900 La Plata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i7.969
Keywords: Descriptive cataloguing, Consistency errors, Precision errors

Abstract

Precision errors (spelling and typing ones) were identified for personal authors and titles in 1800 bibliographic records from 18 Argentine library catalogs (Group 1), while consistency errors (transgression to the rules and formats) were identified in 104 bibliographic records from 10 Argentine library catalogs with 144 occurrences obtained as a response to the search term ministerio (Group 2). From 260 precision errors, 140 (54%) did not affect the retrieval (upper and lower case, diacritical marks), and 120 (46%) did affect the retrieval (character exchange 2, omission 67, substitution 24, repetition 7, insertion 20). 8% of the records from Group 1 were rejected since they had >1 errors. In Group 2 transgressions were detected in the subfields city (81,2%), country (17,3%), abbreviation (32,6%), official name and major entity (20,8%), and standardized name (93,1%). All the records from Group 2 were rejected since they had at least 1 error. The creation of authority files to avoid both kind of errors is recommended, as well as the implementation of a quality management system to avoid the inclusion of errors in the catalog.

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Published
2004-12-01
How to Cite
Martínez, A. M., Mangiaterra, N., Pisarello, R. Z., Stubbs, E. A., & Cap, A. S. (2004). Precision and consistency errors in descriptive cataloging. Información, Cultura Y Sociedad, (7), 102-109. https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i7.969
Issue
No 7 (2002)
Section
Research

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