Upgrade StorageGovernment Documents as Item Type
Have you thought of teaching the translators for WorldCat and library catalogs to recognize government documents? I don't think the "Material Type" field in WorldCat is a reliable indicator of whether or not something is a government document. Still, WorldCat figured out recently how to distinguish between government documents and non-government documents. Here is a URL for an example of this:
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Aindians+congress&fq=s0%3A98000000&qt=facet_s0%3A
With library catalogs, you might be able to teach the translators to recognize SuDoc call numbers, which were clearly different from LC and Dewey, and to classify items on this basis as government documents. This is not a fail proof method, but teaching translators to recognize some variation of "Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O." in the publisher field would be another possible solution. Here is the URL for an example of how this would work:
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Aindians+congress&fq=s0%3A98000000+%3E+s1%3A98100000&qt=facet_s1%3A
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Aindians+congress&fq=s0%3A98000000&qt=facet_s0%3A
With library catalogs, you might be able to teach the translators to recognize SuDoc call numbers, which were clearly different from LC and Dewey, and to classify items on this basis as government documents. This is not a fail proof method, but teaching translators to recognize some variation of "Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O." in the publisher field would be another possible solution. Here is the URL for an example of how this would work:
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Aindians+congress&fq=s0%3A98000000+%3E+s1%3A98100000&qt=facet_s1%3A
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