{"id":2262,"date":"2008-03-12T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T04:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-03-12T23:05:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T04:05:34","slug":"marc-tags-and-worldcat-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/marc-tags-and-worldcat-stats.html","title":{"rendered":"MARC Tags and WorldCat Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some interesting statistics regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/marc\/umb\/um01to06.html#part3\">MARC tag<\/a> usage in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\">WorldCat<\/a> records, according to Karen Smith-Yoshimura at OCLC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/programs\/default.htm\">RLG Programs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 27 tags are used in more than 10% of WorldCat records.<\/li>\n<li>52 tags are are used in 1% to 9% of WorldCat records.<\/li>\n<li>The remaining 147 tags show up in less than 1% of the records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She wonders if some of these tags might not be necessary.\u00a0 I just wonder if we would do better to have a hierarchy involved&#8230; have a few basic top-level tags, and let catalogers go nuts filling in detail on the nested levels.<\/p>\n<p>Karen&#8217;s post appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/hangingtogether.org\/?p=393\">HangingTogether.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some interesting statistics regarding MARC tag usage in WorldCat records, according to Karen Smith-Yoshimura at OCLC&#8217;s RLG Programs: Only 27 tags are used in more than 10% of WorldCat records. 52 tags are are used in 1% to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/marc-tags-and-worldcat-stats.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2922,2943,2949],"tags":[3783],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cataloging","category-libraries","category-oclc","tag-karen-smith-yoshimura"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}