When I created authority record sh2006001656 for: Skupina 42 (Group of artists), I was notified by CPSO to create the broader term authority: Art, Czech--20th century (sh2006002697) for inclusion in the Skupina record.

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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Subject authority records for validation purposes


Sherman,

We do not require that you make the authority records for the broader terms, we normally do that in Subject Headings Editorial Team.  



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>>> Sherman Clarke <[log in to unmask]> 6/29/2007 11:23 AM >>>
Dear CPSO and PCCLIST colleagues:

In line with this project, we were wondering if new subject proposals should routinely also include a validation record for broader-term references. The heading we proposed:

010 __ |a sh2007004783 
040 __ |a NNU |b eng |c DLC 
150 __ |a Cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého [proposed] 
450 __ |a Jindřich Chalupecký Award 
550 __ |w g |a Art |x Awards |z Czech Republic 

Should we routinely do a proposal for Art -- Awards -- [place] or similar BTs? We did this time. I note that SCM:SH H200 says that editorial staff will create records for generic terms divided by specific places or heading-subdivisions. If you can do it algorithmically, it probably makes sense to automate these validation records.

Thanks for your advice.

Sherman Clarke
New York University Libraries
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Date: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:28 am
Subject: [PCCLIST] Subject authority records for validation purposes
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>  As announced in the CDS bulletin of May 25 2007 <  CPSO has begun a

> project to create subject authority records for every subject string

> appearing in bibliographic records to aid Library of Congress
> catalogers, and external users in the validation of LCSH subject 
> heading strings.   Effective immediately subject authority records
are 
> being created for valid subject strings obtained from bibliographic
> records.  Formerly, these subject strings did not prompt the creation

> of subject authority records, because they contained free-floating
> subdivision[s]. 
>  
>  Some of these records are being created manually by the Cataloging
> Policy and Support Office staff, and some will be generated by 
> machine, but all of them will be reviewed before distribution occurs.

> We anticipate at least 200 records per month at the start of this
> project.  These records will NOT be printed in the annual editions of

> LCSH (the "red books").  The records can be identified by the legend

> "[proposed validation record]" appearing at the end of the 1xx
string. 
>  This legend will be removed once the records have been approved and

> distributed.  Additionally each record will contain a 667 field with

> this data: "Record generated for validation purposes."
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