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<div>Jill’s idea of KBART comparisons is spot on, and it’s something I’ve worked quite a bit on. Yes, this can be done for both SFX and OCLC. As helpful as KBART is, it’s not the complete answer, though. As an example of what I mean, you might think, ok, both
accept KBART, so why not update one KB with the KBART output of the other? This simply doesn’t work, for a variety of reasons.</div>
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<div>Some of those reasons have already been articulated in other replies. KB vendors simply do not count things in the same way across the board. And the ways in which those KBs are wired to do what they do makes a big difference in terms of how they are created
and maintained. For example, in the OCLC realm, the OCLC number is extremely important. Not true in the SFX realm (although technically one can assign an OCLC number to a title).</div>
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<div>As noted before, I’ve done a lot of work to compare/contrast — even just at the collection level — these two different KBs. They are actually quite different, more so than you might suspect. I completely agree in theory to the principle of simplicity —
just choose one and stick with it. But I’d say that this assumes we are comparing the same things in terms of content coverage, and basically, we are not. At least, I can say that for OCLC vs. SFX.</div>
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<div>I have also found vast disparity between how quickly one KB gets updated vs. another and cannot give a definitive answer to which vendor does a better job of managing their data. I will see that the method used by SFX is much more comfortable for me because
it gives me a lot more control as needed, at a local level, than OCLC WMS KB can possibly do.</div>
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<div>But let me clarify that I’m not trying to point fingers or focus on one vendor vs. the other, but rather, trying to understand why KB discrepancies occur in general. Your responses thus far have been very helpful. I’m also interested in how others successfully
manage to juggle the maintenance of more than one KB at a time, however success is defined.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Eril-l on behalf of "Katherine T. Silton"<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 2:50 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"Donley, Leah", "<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>"<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I have previously had to maintain multiple KBs (EBSCO and Ser Sol) and I think that Leah’s explanation is a good one. Long-term, it’s definitely a
lot of work to maintain two and I wouldn’t recommend it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Eril-l [<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Donley, Leah<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 8, 2015 2:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] KB discrepancies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">In addition to everything mentioned so far, I’ve worked with publishers and KB providers in the past to correct title lists for collections. I suspect that
when this happens, the KB feeds aren’t always updated (or maybe not updated for all KB providers, not exactly sure how that works), because we’ve switched providers a few times and often a collection I’ve corrected with one provider will not be correct in
the new provider’s KB. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">-Leah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Leah Donley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Brookhaven National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jill Emery<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 08, 2015 1:59 PM<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] KB discrepancies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">is it possible to get the KBART feeds for both knowledgebases? That may explain the difference. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Both companies endorse KBART so that may help get to the bottom of this situation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the registry contact information for both providers: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/kbartregistry/">https://sites.google.com/site/kbartregistry/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Daniel Peterson <<a href="mailto:dcpcreations@gmail.com" target="_blank">dcpcreations@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm not sure how SFX and OCLC KBs work, but issues I can think of to take into account are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. How are journal title changes tracked? Single entry for all title versions, or separate for each title/ISSN variant?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">4. Conference proceedings and monographic serials can be a mess<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Steve Oberg <<a href="mailto:steve.oberg@wheaton.edu" target="_blank">steve.oberg@wheaton.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">I'm managing SFX as well as the OCLC WMS KB. I don't intend to open the can of worms of: why have more than one? So...If you are in a similar situation to mine, and have
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">KB #1 has a particular collection. KB #2 has the same collection. Yet the number of individual titles within each varies wildly. Here's a specific example: SFX has a target
for EBSCOHOST_PSYCBOOKS that has 2,183 portfolios. The same thing in OCLC WMS KB (called a collection, with title, EBSCOhost PsycBOOKS) has 4,021 titles in it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">If the source for each KB is a vendor feed of some sort, isn't it logical to expect the numbers to be somewhat close? But they frequently aren't. I'm not sure there is
a ready solution to the problem but I'm wanting to at least have a better grasp of the possible reasons for these discrepancies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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