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Any errors in WorldCat can be reported to [log in to unmask] We take record quality seriously, but as you can imagine when you take in records from thousands of sources around the world, this is a constant struggle. We have our own quality control efforts, but individuals reporting problems are also an important strategy. Roy On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Lars Aronsson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This big mess of broken bibliographic records that started out > as Google Book Search, and then spread to Hathi Trust, is now > also spreading to OCLC Worldcat. I find the same kind of > misspellings and misconceptions in all three places. So far, > the VIAF author names seem to be more correct, but maybe they > will soon import all the misspellings from Worldcat as well? > > What is the way to stop this downward trend? Where can one post > corrections, so that they go back to the source, and don't > reappear next time? How can I know who copies from whom? > > Does Hathi Trust copy everything from Google? And does > Worldcat discover "new" (misspelled) authors and titles in > Hathi Trust, and import them rather than reporting the errors? > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([log in to unmask]) > Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/