24 november 20111 1 heritage of the printed book database
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Heritage of the Printed Book database
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Heritage of the Printed Book database
• bibliographic data for material printed in the handpress-era (i.e. c. 1455-c. 1830)
• Started in 1997• Aims to give a comprehensive overview
on the entirety of Europe’s printed heritage
• Mostly high-level bibliographical records created by book-in-hand cataloguing
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Users of the HPB
Bibliographic reference tool for • Users from areas of study that use early
printed books as source material• Librarians• Antiquarian booksellers• …More and more also directing to digitised
versions
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Contents of the HPB
• Over 3.5 million records from– 34 institutions with at least 5.000
libraries in– 18 European countries and the US
• Hosted by OCLC (Dublin, Ohio)• MARC21 format• Files added and updated per batch
load processing
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Access to the HPB
• Retrieval– FirstSearch– worldcat.org
• Editing– Connexion client– Connexion browser
• Derived cataloguing, remote querying– Z39.50
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HPB in FirstSearch
• http://firstsearch.oclc.org/ • IP-recognition access in member
library‘s reading rooms• HPB specific enhancements to
FirstSearch:– Annotation facility– Assisted Searching
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Record linking
• MARC 21 76x-78x fields:Relationships between editions and items
• E.g.– Hierachical records for multivolume works– Translations, parallel editions– Items bound together– same editions from different sources
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Recent additions
• Dutch early printed material• Polish National Library• University Library Wrocław• Vatican Incunabula Short Title
Catalogue
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Upcoming new files
• Public Library Lyon • University Library Tartu• Czech National Library• Royal Library Brussels• French ABES networks• Leighton Library, Dunblane
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Provenance Index
• OCLC is currently setting up a new keyword index based on MARC 21 fields– 70x and 71x with relevant relator codes– 561Ownership and Custodial History – 563 Binding Information