OCLC CJK Users Group Annual Meeting 2006

OCLC CJK Users Group 2006 Annual Meeting
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Palace Hotel San Francisco
2 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA

Agenda

8:00-8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast

8:30-8:40 a.m.      Welcome and Chair Report - Hsi-chu Bolick, Chair, OCLC CJK Users Group
8:40-8:50 a.m.      20th Anniversary Celebration Introduction - Karen Wei, Vice-chair/Chair-elect, OCLC CJK Users Group
8:50-9:55 a.m.      EACC to Unicode Migration (A&B)
8:50-9:10 a.m.

A. Migrating Library Systems to the Unicode-based Environment: the Need of EACC to Unicode Mapping Table, MARC-8 versus UTF-8 MARC Records
     Mr. K.T. Lam, Head of Library Systems, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Library

9:10-10:25 a.m.

B. Technical Issues:
I. Chinese - K.T. Lam, HKUST Library
    Input, Font, Display, Search Issues; TSVCC (Traditional, Simplified and Variant Chinese Characters) Linking

9:25-9:40 a.m.

II. Japanese - Robert Britt, University of Washington
    Japanese Records and Whether or Not to Switch From EACC to Unicode - The University of Washington Law Library's Decision Process

9:40-9:55 a.m.

III. Korean - Young K. Lee, Library of Congress
     1. The problem on Non-roman Character Search in LC, WorldCat & RLIN Systems.
     2. LC's CJK Compatibility Database

9:55-10:10 a.m.      Two Are Better Than One: WorldCat + RefWorks in Collection Development and References

         Vickie Fu Doll, University of Kansas

10:10-10:25 a.m.      UCSD Project on Enhancing Pre-AACR2 Records for Chinese-American Scholars

         Jim Cheng, Shi Deng, University of California, San Diego

10:25-10:40 a.m.      Break
10:40-11:20 a.m.      OCLC Update - Jay Jordan,President and CEO, OCLC
11:20-11:35 a.m.      OCLC CJK Client 1.50 Update - Hisako Kotaka, Senior Product Manager, Cataloging & Metadata Services, OCLC
11:35-11:45 a.m.      Inaugurate Luncheon Celebration - Andrew Wang, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Services & New Initiatives, OCLC

OCLC CJK Services 20th Anniversary Celebration

12:00-12:05 p.m.      Introduction of Speakers - Karen Wei, Vice-chair/Chair-Elect, OCLC CJK Users Group
12:05-12:45 p.m.      OCLC NetLibrary's Strategy to Incorporate Asian Contents - Rich Rosy, Vice President, Content Management, OCLC
12:45-1:00 p.m.        Beyond Technology - Eugene Wu, Librarian Emeritus, Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University
1:00-1:15 p.m.          CJK, A Byte That Breaches the Dam

- Karl Lo, Librarian Emeritus of East Asian Collections and IR/PS Library, University of California, San Diego

OCLC Connexion Client 1.50 Workshop

1:30-4:30 p.m.           OCLC Client 1.50 Workshop - Hisako Kotaka, Senior Product Manager, Cataloging & Metadata Services, OCLC

(Held at San Francisco Public Library)

Minutes

Welcome and Chair Report - Hsi-chu Bolick
Hsi-chu Bolick, Chair, convened the meeting at 8:30 a.m. She welcomed all the participants and thanked all the speakers. Ms. Bolick summarized the annual program including a conference theme - EACC to Unicode Migration, and a special event -- celebration luncheon for the OCLCCJK Service 20th anniversary. She thanked OCLC for hosting the meeting and the celebration luncheon.

20th Anniversary Celebration Introduction - Karen Wei
Karen Wei briefed how the 20th Anniversary Celebration was organized. She thanked OCLC for providing the celebration luncheon. She also thanked Andrew Wang for inviting Jay Jordan, President and CEO, OCLC and Rich Rosy, Vice President, Content Management, OCLC to attend the celebration and to make reports. Finally, she welcomed Eugene Wu & Karl Lo, the first and the second chair of the users group, joined the Users Group for this celebration.

Migrating Library Systems to the Unicode-based Environment: the Need of EACC to Unicode Mapping Table, MARC-8 versus UTF-8 MARC Records - K.T. Lam
Input, Font, Display, Search Issues; TSVCC (Traditional, Simplified and Variant Chinese Characters) Linking - K.T. Lam
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Japanese Records and Whether or Not to Switch From EACC to Unicode - Robert Britt
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1. The problem on Non-roman Character Search in LC, WorldCat & RLIN Systems.
2. LC's CJK Compatibility Database - Young K. Lee
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Two Are Better Than One: WorldCat + RefWorks in Collection Development and References - Vickie Fu Doll
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UCSD Project on Enhancing Pre-AACR2 Records for Chinese-American Scholars - Jim Cheng, Shi Deng
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OCLC Update - Jay Jordan
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OCLC CJK Client 1.50 Update - Hisako Kotaka
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Inaugurate Luncheon Celebration - Andrew Wang
Andrew Wang briefed how the OCLC CJK system has grown up from its childhood stage to the adolescent stage and became an adult in 20 years. He thanked all the user group participants and previous chairs, especially the two who can be with us today, Eugene Wu & Karl Lo.

The meeting adjourned at 11:50 a.m. The 20th anniversary celebration luncheon began at 12:00 p.m. at the same location.

OCLC CJK Services 20th Anniversary Celebration

Introduction of Speakers - Karen Wei
Karen Wei introduced the three speakers who gave their speeches during the luncheon:
Rich Rosy, Vice President, Content Management, OCLC
Eugene Wu, Librarian Emeritus, Harvard Yenching Library, Harvard University
Karl Lo, Librarian Emeritus of East Asian Collections and IR/PS Library, University of California, San Diego

OCLC NetLibrary's Strategy to Incorporate Asian Contents - Rich Rosy
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Beyond Technology - Eugene Wu
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CJK, A Byte That Breaches the Dam - Karl Lo
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The celebration luncheon ended at 1:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Ai-lin Yang
University of California, Berkeley