Dear Robert,
Thanks for asking about re-starting the project to fix the
obsolete multiple surname indicator. We're very interested in moving
ahead with this, but we're doing our first-ever fiscal period close
this weekend. We'd like to keep other activities on our server to a
minimum over the long weekend, so we propose to re-start the project
on October 11. I hope that will be convenient for you.
As we discussed, we would keep to the same schedule, i.e., 1,000
records per day Monday through Thursday; 5,000 records on Fridays.
Once we begin loading Pinyin bibs in earnest, we may ask to put the
multiple surname project in hiatus again. I will alert you if/when
that's necessary.
Would you please consider increasing the daily rate Mon.-Thurs.
to 2,000? After loading 156,000 pinyin authority records, 2,000 per
day seems like a piece of cake. Let me know if this is doable from
your perspective. I'm copying folks at RLG to make sure that they are
aware of our intentions too.
Thanks much.
Ann
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