Scope: Procedure for handling batch creation or editing of MARC records of Digitization-related assets slated for delivery to support their management in the Catalog.

Contact: Jasmine Burns

Unit: Batch Processing, Cataloging, Metadata Services, DCAPS

Date created: 02/17/2017

Date of next review: February 2019

Please note that this procedure has been revised extensively as of May 2018, therefore previous references to the procedure may no longer apply


These are the three cases in which DCAPS initiates a Batch process

1. BIBs need eBIBs

Participants: user-0b855, Batch staff

Scenario: Creation of eBIBs for digitized items in delivery systems. eBIBs will only be created if the following criteria is met:

Input: spreadsheet of BIBs with Delivery URLs

Output: eBIBs are created

2. DCAPS needs to know which things have been digitized

Participants: DCAPS Project Manager, user-0b855, Batch representative

Scenario: DCAPS has digitized items and would like the catalog record to note that these items have been digitized (single items). There is likely not to be an eBIB for these items because we do not catalog this type of access point (i.e. Hathi Trust), or the item is not in a delivery system.

Input: spreadsheet of BIBs and the date that the items were digitized

Output: BIBs get 899 code (INSERT CODE HERE)

3. DCAPS needs to know what items are in a digital collection

Participants: DCAPS Project Manager, user-0b855, Batch representative

Scenario: DCAPS has a group of records that belong to a single digital collection and would like the catalog records to note that they belong to that collection

  1. if representation of these items exists somewhere as a collection (i.e. finding aid, catalog record, etc.), this will be the likely scenario
  2. it is strongly preferred that all items from a collection are sent at the same time, please email user-0b855 prior to the request if this is not possible and must be sent in batches
  3. DCAPS will work with the curator to decide whether to group these items on the eBIB or the BIB record

Input: spreadsheet of BIBs

Output: BIBs get 899 code

PostScript: Linking the Digital Asset Bib Record to the Physical/Analog Asset Bib Record

When deriving digital asset Catalog records from physical or analog asset Catalog records, we want to indicate the derivative relationship between the two resources.