MOKKA: rebuilding its database and the lessons we learnt
Koltay Klára Dr. <>
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The Hungarian National Shared Catalogue (MOKKA)
hopes for major developments in the near future. It, however, has had the
opportunity to carry out some data modification and to introduce some new features
while it was reinitiated on a new server provided for its purposes in the National Széchényi Library. The new
database was rebuilt using a modified method for deduplication which tries to
compensate for various cataloguing practices of member libraries, and modified
the mechanisms if not the theory of
handling multivolume records. The MOKKA database has always been a
database using authority records linked with the headings and subject headings
in bibliographic records, but it did not make full use of the potentials of the
arrangement. Having loaded the authority records of some of the member
libraries, the new database aims at improving its search potentials based on
information in the authority records. The project resulted also in some insight
on how the bibliographic records of some thirty libraries coexist in the
database and how the way they are handled is to be modified at some points.