[(Authority Control in Organising and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience )] [Author: Arlene G. Taylor] [Feb-2005]

by Arlene G. Taylor

International authority control will soon be a reality. Examine the projects that are moving the information science professions in that direction today! In Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Definition and International Experience, international experts examine the state of the art and explore new theoretical perspectives. This essential resource, which has its origins in the International Conference on Authority Control (Italy, 2003), addresses standards, exchange formats, and metadata—with sections on authority control for names, works, and subjects. Twenty fascinating case examples show how authority control is practiced at institutions in various nations around the world.Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information provides an essential definition of authority control and then begins its sharply focused examinations of essential aspects of authority control with a section entitled "State of the Art and New Theoretical Perspectives." Here you'll find chapters focusing the current state of the art—with suggestions for future developmentsthe importance (and current lack) of teaching authority control as part of a library/information science curriculumthe guidelines and methodology used in the creation of Italy's SBN Authority File Next, "Standards, Exchange Formats, and Metadata" Italy's Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana UNIMARC database, which was created using authority control principlesthe past and present activities of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and an examination of IFLA's Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR)metadata standards as a means for accomplishing authority control in digital librariestraditional international library standards for bibliographic and authority controlthe evolution and current status of authority control tools for art and material culture informationthe UNIMARC authorities format—what it is and how to work with it "Authority Control for Names and Works" brings you useful, current information changes and new features in the new edition of the International Standard Archival Authority Record (Corporate Bodies, Persons, Families)Encoded Archival Context (EAC)—and its role in enhancing access to and understanding of records, and how it enables repositories to share creator descriptionthe LEAF model for collection, harvesting, linking, and providing access to existing local/national name authority datanational bibliographic control in China, Japan, and Korea, plus suggestions for future cooperation between bibliographic agencies in East Asiaauthority control of printers, publishers, and booksellershow to create up-to-date corporate name authority recordsauthority control (and the lack of it) for works "Authority Control for Subjects" updates you subject gateways—with a look at the differences between the Program for Cooperative Cataloging's SACO program and browsable online subject gatewaysMACS—a virtual authority file that crosses language barriers to provide multilingual accessOCLC's FAST project, which strives to retain the rich vocabulary of LCSH while making the schema easier to understand, control, apply, and usethe efforts of Italy's National Central Library toward semantic authority controlthe interrelationship of subject indexing languages and authority control—with a look at the "semantics vs. syntax" issuehow subject indexing is done in Italy's Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale "Authority Control Experiences and Projects" presents authoritative commentary the intricacies of authority control in music (names and titles)the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) thesaurus filethe Bavarian Library Network and the authority files used in German librariesProject InterParty—a new way to handle rights management with linked metadata and develop a common system that supports the needs of e-commerce as well as the traditional requirements of library authority controlcommercial authority control services and the challenge of convincing vendors to participate in international authority controlthe problems that arise when people and corporate bodies use multiple namesthe latest developments in Chinese authority control, as implemented in Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, and Hong KongItaly's Progetto Lombardo Archivi in INternet (PLAIN), which enables easy public access to electronic descriptions of historical archivesFrance's Association francaise de normalization (AFNOR) and its method of modeling authority data for libraries, archives, and museumsthe ACOLIT project for authority control of religious entities for the Catholic Churchthe Bibliotheque Nationale de France's COFAR and CORELI programs . . . and a great deal more! With contributions from 17 countries and three continents, Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information is truly an international collection. No one working in authority control in any part of the world should be without...

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First published January 1, 2005