Showing papers on "Authority control published in 2003"

Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electronic Environment [English version presented at the International Conference] = L’authority control nel contesto del controllo bibliografico in ambiente elettronico [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

Abstract: There is a sense in which authority control and bibliographic control are coterminous - two sides of the same coin. At the very least, bibliographic control is literally impossible without authority control. Cataloguing cannot exist without standardized access points and authority control is the mechanism by which we achieve the necessary degree of standardization. The same name, title, or subject should always have the same denotation (in natural language or the artificial languages of classification) each time it occurs in a bibliographic record, no matter how many times that may be. We cannot have real library service without a bibliographic architecture and we cannot have that bibliographic architecture without authority control.

Authority Control: State of the Art and New Perspectives [English version presented at the International Conference] = Authority control: stato dell’arte e nuove prospettive [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

Abstract: The Internet has brought us a new way to convey information and has opened up possibilities and opportunities that we never dreamt of even a few years ago. Catalogers can build authority records using the Web and all communities (publishers, rights management agencies, archives, museums, and other libraries) can use this information and reduce costs worldwide. Authority control will help users of the Web to benefit from collocation and search precision that authority control enables. And, very importantly, it also means we can do it in ways that are meaningful to users in their preferred language and script. We can open up the valuable information within our authority records to users worldwide and use the authority records as tools to connect, not only to bibliographic data, but to biographical dictionaries, telephone directories, abstracting and indexing services, official Web sites for the entity, and more. The authority records can be a key part, a building block for the infrastructure of the Semantic Web and beyond.

MACS (Multilingual access to subjects): a virtual authority file across languages [English version presented at the International Conference] = MACS (Multilingual Access to Subject): un authority file virtuale multilingue [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

Abstract: Shared authority files and co-operation in the development of national lists, both author and subject, have enabled libraries to share resources and improve access to their collections. Attempts are now being made to build on the significant work carried out in many countries to build and maintain subject headings languages and authority files. Whereas traditionally, bilingual/multilingual access was assured through multiple subject headings coded in the authority records, today many research initiatives seek to provide access through Internet based linking processes. Concepts such as language cross-linking, or interoperability in subject headings languages, which are common in today’s research in multilingual access were limited ten years ago to language specialists. MACS uses the stable authority control environment and this linking process to extend the use of subject heading languages on an international networked multilingual level.

Chinese Name Authority Control in Asia: An Overview [English version presented at the International Conference] = Gli ultimi sviluppi dell’authority work per i nomi cinesi in Estremo Oriente: una panoramica [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

Abstract: This research paper consists of 5 parts. Part I and II features the Chinese authority files created by the National Library of China, as well as the “Chinese Authority Database” set up jointly by the National Central Library and the National Taiwan University Library. Part III is dedicated to the different authority control works and their latest developments implemented by the National Diet Library (Japan), “Toshokan Ryustu Centre”, NACSISCAT operated by the National Institute of Informatics (Japan), and the MARC formats currently being used by the Waseda University Library (Tokyo). Part IV focuses on the working relations between “China Academic Library & Information System” and NACSIS-CAT. Part V is devoted to the “JULAC-Hong Kong Chinese Authority, Name (HKCAN)” Database established by the academic libraries in Hong Kong since 1999.

Education for Cataloging and the Organization of Information: Pitfalls and the Pendulum

Abstract: * Pitfalls and the Pendulum: Reconsidering Education for Cataloging and the Organization of Information: Preface * A MATTER OF OPINION * Why Teach Cataloging and Classification? * Persistent Issues in Cataloging Education: Considering the Past and Looking Toward the Future * Why Does Everybody Hate Cataloging? * Cataloging: An Exciting Subject for Exciting Times * THE CONTEXT * Demographic Trends Affecting Professional Technical Services Staffing in ARL Libraries * A New Look at US Graduate Courses in Bibliographic Control * Textbooks Used in Bibliographic Control Education Courses * Where Are We and How Did We Get Here? or, The Changing Place of Cataloging in the Library and Information Science Curriculum: Causes and Consequences * "If I Knew Then What I Know Now": UNCG LIS Graduates' Perspectives on Cataloging Education * Cataloging or Knowledge Management: Perspectives of Library Educators on Cataloging Education for Entry-Level Academic Librarians * EDUCATION FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES * Format Integration and the Design of Cataloging and Classification Curricula * Cataloging and Metadata Education: Asserting a Central Role in Information Organization * On Teaching Subject Cataloging * Education for Authority Control: Whose Responsibility Is It? * What Else Do You Need to Know? Practical Skills for Catalogers and Managers * ALTERNATIVES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY * Innovations in Standard Classroom Instruction * Online Mentoring: A Student Experience at Dominican University * Online Distance Learning with Cataloging Mentors: The Mentor's Viewpoint * When Donkeys Fly: Distance Education for Cataloging * An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of OCLC Online Computer Library Center's Web-Based Module on Cataloging Internet Resources Using the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and MARC21 * Cataloging Internet Resources Using MARC 21 and AACR2: Online Training for Working Catalogers * The Program for Cooperative Cataloging and Training for Catalogers * Catalog Training for People Who Are Not Catalogers: The Colorado Digitization Project Experience * The Community of Catalogers: Its Role in the Education of Catalogers * Index * Reference Notes Included

Metadata and Authority Control in the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

Abstract: At the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), the Special Collections and the Bibliographic Services departments collaborate to provide online access to the photographs, letters, diaries, oral histories, and posters in the library's Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. To create access to individual digitized items for materials traditionally cataloged only at the collection level, the libraries have simplified the cataloging of these items by producing Dublin Core metadata records and assigning post-coordinate subject headings. This article discusses the project workflow, recounts the choices made regarding authority work, and assesses the impact of supporting the digital archive records with PCC activity.

Commercial Services for Providing Authority Control: Outsourcing the Process [English version presented at the International Conference] = I servizi commerciali per l’authority control: dare in gestione il processo [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

Abstract: I have focused on the vendors and processes that are now available in the United States and Canada, but I do not claim to know the state of commercially provided authority control here in Europe and elsewhere in the world. I do know that there are serious issues that must be worked out before authority control vendors can cope with the types of international authority control that we have discussed during this conference. Before we can begin to approach commercial processing using a virtual international authority file, the FRANAR issue needs to be resolved. Many interoperability problems must be solved, including issues of MARC/UNIMARC authority format harmonization, and methods that will allow libraries to use a variety of national authority databases for the matching process, and provide the flexibility to select the authorized form that is appropriate for the local users.

Project InterParty: from library authority files to e-commerce [English version presented at the International Conference] = Progetto InterParty: dagli authority file delle biblioteche al commercio elettronico [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

Abstract: To give a presentation on the work of the InterParty project the working title that first occurred to me was "From library authority files to e-commerce". This seemed to capture the thought that we were pushing boundaries by applying the familiar principles and benefits of library authority files to the management of e-content by working in co-operation with publishing and trade sectors for whom authority control is not a familiar notion. On reflection I think it is a more accurate reflection of the key drivers of the project to reverse the caption to read "From e-commerce to library authority files". For in fact this is a project initiated by people working in the trade sector who have identified a "problem" and seen part of the solution as pre-existing in library authority files. I hope to show in this presentation that, although InterParty is not a library-led project, it does offer to open up potential new partnerships that would greatly benefit authority control work in libraries.

System and method for photo community service

Abstract: PURPOSE: A system and a method for a photo community service are provided to upload the image data taken by a camera phone of a user to the network through wireless communication, to directly give an access authority for the uploaded image data to the user, and to form a community with the persons having the access authority as a member. CONSTITUTION: The system(200) comprises an image receiving part(210) receiving the image data pictured by the camera phone of the user, a community forming part(220) offering the community service, a database(230) storing the image data and the user information, a control part(240), and a message transmitting part(250) informing the member of the upload completion. The community forming part(220) comprises an image storing part(222) storing the image data, an access authority control part(224) giving the access authority for the image data stored in the image storing part(222) to the second user, and a community part(226) appointing the member of a group in connection with the access authority for the image data.

What’s in a name: associated costs or authority work for artists’ names

Abstract: Authority control is both the most expensive and important quality of any library catalog. Controlling headings for artists’ names can be more expensive than other personal names, as more time is required for the necessary research needed to determine the preferred form of name and variants. However, the cost associated with controlling artists’ names can be managed through effective use of reference materials and time. How artist headings are used also suggests that, over time, the initial investment can save a library from expenses associated with future catalog maintenance.

Controllo bibliografico e authority control dai Principi di Parigi a oggi [Italian version presented at the International Conference]

Abstract: Bibliographic control is the context in which authority control develops and distinguishes itself. Within the allowed limits I’ll draw a concise evolutive profile of authority control in the last forty years considering various aspects: theoric analysis, rules and standards, implementations, relating to the technological innovation of the catalogue and to the changing context in which libraries work. For the sake of brevity and simplification, I’ll refer above all to personal authors, but the paper intends to comprehend – with the due adaptations – also corporate bodies and titles. I note three stages: the beginning one (Sixties), the development one (Seventies and Eighties) and the turning-point one (Nineties).

A magyar Országos Közös Katalógus projekt elsö szakaszànak tapasztalatai

Abstract: After five years of difficult birth, the Hungarian shared cataloguing project reached in 2003 the state so that libraries and their users could begin to use its services. The main database include records of the OPACs of the fifteen largest Hungarian libraries. This means over 1,8 million records, after checking the duplicate records in the database. Also, the database uses authority control on the names. Naturally, the records contain the location codes of the member libraries. Through the links related to these codes the local databases can be accessed (e.g. for holdings information). The central database is updated regularly as the material is exported and filled by the member libraries.

Normdaten und Metadaten Die Idee eines Internationalen Authority File

Abstract: Authority files are a special sort of metadata: metadata for metadata. In a set of authority records that is separate from the metadata of a publication, the names or identifiers of entities which differ from those used in the publications are collected and standarized. By using authority records as metadata it is possible to monitor and ensure, for example, that for authors, copyright holders, publishers, key words, etc., a consistent and identical search path and access point is established (authority control). For queries, authority standards ensure that relevant publications can be retrieved via any of the name-forms and identifiers contained in the authority data file. By assigning attributes and relational links to the individual entities, additionally networked access points can be provided. Authority data are hence ideal for forming semantic navigational networks to search and access publications and other entities. The standardized vocabulary and numbering system of an authority file is, however, only valid in its own scope of application, and the joint usage of title data can be impeded by the use of differing authority files. The IFLA Working Group FRANAR has developed a model - based on the vision of a joint Virtual Autority File - for establishing the interoperability of national authority files in the library world. In order to prove the feasibility of such a scheme, the Library of Congress, OCLC and the Deutsche Bibliothek have agreed to conduct a joint project in which the construction a VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) will be demonstrated in the case of personal name authority records.

A Framework for Unified Authority Files: A Case Study of Corporate Body Names in the FAO Catalogue

Abstract: We present a Unified Authority File for Names for use with the FAO Catalogue. This authority file will include all authorized forms of names, and can be used for highly precise resource discovery, as well as for record sharing. Other approaches of creating unified authority files are discussed. A major advantage of our proposal lies in the ease and sustainability of sharing records across authority files. The public would benefit from the Unified Authority File with its possibilities for cross-collection searching, and metadata creators would also have a greater possibility to utilize bibliographic records from other collections. A case study describes the treatment and use of corporate body names used in the catalogue of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Essential Cataloguing: The Basics

Abstract: Mystified by main entry? Confused by corporate bodies? Can't tell a description from an access point? Then this is the book for you. Cataloguing is important, despite what some people may tell you. Because it is hardly taught nowadays, there is all the more likelihood that you will find yourself having to catalogue without having been taught anything about it. This book covers descriptive cataloguing, and is designed as a simple companion to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (revised 2002 edition). Dealing primarily with printed books, but including many references to other formats, the author leads you step by step through the cataloguing process, covering: description; access points; multipart works; headings for persons; headings for corporate bodies; authority control and uniform titles.

Controllo d’autorità e linguaggi di indicizzazione per soggetto [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale] = Authority control and subject indexing languages [English version presented at the International Conference]

Abstract: Analogously with natural languages, artificial languages with which the mediation between a collection of documents and its potential users takes place are also made up of four necessary components: vocabulary, semantics, syntax, pragmatics. Authority control involves the first component, vocabulary, and comes about in the second, semantics. Authority control being unique and general, and thus adequate for the situation created by technological progress, must make use of the most advanced theoretic reflection on subject indexing languages, and at the same time must satisfy the needs of subject indexing languages much more than it has until now.