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Cataloging Linguistic Data Consortium Corpora
1. LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM
Linguistic Data Consortium corpora consist of CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, hard-drives and online titles. The Linguistic Data Consortium notifies the AUL for Collections when new corpora are released, and she requests they be sent and signs the licenses when necessary.
Cataloging receives the discs from Acquisitions Receiving Coordinator along with accompanying invoices. A corpus or transcript available online may be included on the invoice.
The corpora and transcripts are catalogued cataloged in OCLC and exported to our system. There is an inline constant data record “ldc” for the optical discs.
CD-ROMs are cataloged as:
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Location: DMC
Item cat1: NEW
DVD-ROMs are cataloged as:
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Location: DMC
Item cat1: NEW
Hard-drives are cataloged as:
Type: HARDDRIVE
Location: DMC
Item cat1: NEW
Files available remotely are cataloged as:
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Call No. : INTERNET
Class Scheme: ASIS
When multiple copies of discs are available, the additional copies are sent to the CIRC-DESK:
Additional CD-ROMs are cataloged as:
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Location: CIRC-DESK
Item cat1: NEW
Information about the releases may be found at the LDC website: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
Prepared by: Brian E. SurrattHweifen Weng
Last updated: September 20October 15, 20112014
Index Terms: Linguistic Data Consortium corpora.