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Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience

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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 metadatawith 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 Next, Standards, Exchange Formats, and Metadata Authority Control for Names and Works brings you useful, current information Authority Control for Subjects updates you Authority Control Experiences and Proje

672 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

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