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An Analytical Study of Typographical Errors in OPACs and Corrective Measures

An Analytical Study of Typographical Errors in OPACs and Corrective Measures . Surendran Cherukodan G.Santhosh Kumar Sheeja N K Cochin University ( CUSAT ) Humayoon Kabir S University of Kerala . Introduction . Deals with Typographical errors in OPAcs

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An Analytical Study of Typographical Errors in OPACs and Corrective Measures

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  1. An Analytical Study of Typographical Errors in OPACs and Corrective Measures SurendranCherukodan G.Santhosh Kumar Sheeja N K Cochin University (CUSAT) HumayoonKabir S University of Kerala

  2. Introduction Deals with Typographical errors in OPAcs Typographical errors are the mistaken addition, deletion, transposition or substitution of letters or other characters in a word, or the addition or deletion of spaces within or between words (Gardner, 1992). The problem of spelling mistakes is a global phenomenon (Ballard 2008).

  3. Problem • The spelling mistakes occurred during data entry work are left unnoticed by library professionals • Typos affects the quality of OPACs • Block access to an available item

  4. Previous Research

  5. Previous Research Terry Ballard

  6. Present Study • Whether the problem exists ? • The word “management’ was chosen for search – example • Search conducted on local, national and international library OPACs by deliberately typing in possible variation of the word • It was found that “management” is wrongly entered in several OPACs

  7. Management –error variants

  8. Management-Error Variants

  9. The Problem Occurs • in-house • When importing • When source itself having error

  10. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/

  11. http://www.sciencedirect.com/

  12. Amazon

  13. Corrective measures • Human Intelligence- Proof reading, careful attention –in-house, importing, copying. • Check your catalogue with the list of word produced by Ballard • Receiving authority records from Co-operative programmes- NACO • Listserv –Blogs - etc

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