2014 AAS CEAL Annual Meeting
Sarah S. Elman
Columbia University
March 2014

 Online training completed in Nov. 2012
 Post-training review
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16 catalogers have been reviewed by CJK
NACO Project reviewers-- 8 are independent as of mid-March 2014.
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Some were reviewed by their institutional reviewers (status unknown)
 6 new catalogers (in 2 institutions) joined the project in 2013

 Workshops co-sponsored with CEAL CTP:
1) March 2013
 CJK NACO Workshop – RDA highlights, updates, etc.
 53 people registered
2) March 2014
 Advanced CJK NACO Workshop
 40 people registered

 To clarify cataloging rules and provide recommendations for dealing with CJK NACO records
 Location: CJK NACO Project website http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/naco/CJK/CJK%20NAC
O%20Best%20Practice.doc
 Current topics:
◦
Names with “jin shi” (
進士
) or “ju ren” (
舉人
) dates
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Treatment of
籍貫
/
本籍
/
原籍
/
祖籍 and “<Place>
人
”, etc.
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Treatment of
字 and
號
/
号 for personal names
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Abbreviations in 670 $b
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Treatment of variant pronunciations of characters (
多音字
)
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Romanization of ambiguous place names
 Will be updated when new topics are proposed

 Maintain and update CJK NACO Project website
 Engage in discussions related to CJK NACO authority work and work with relevant parties to develop best practices
 Organize CJK NACO trainings or webinars as needed
 Participate in CJK authority record clean-up projects as needed, e.g., conversion of Taiwan place names from WG to pinyin, etc.
 Increase no. of CJK NACO contributors and reviewers

 CJK NACO Project Website http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/naco/CJK.html
 Coordinator
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Sarah S. Elman (Columbia University) sse2109@columbia.edu
 LC/PCC Liaison
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Jessalyn Zoom (Library of Congress) jiwu@loc.gov