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Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information - Definition and International Experience (Hardcover, New)
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Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information - Definition and International Experience (Hardcover, New)
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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 Information: 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 on:
the current state of the artwith suggestions for future
developments the importance (and current lack) of teaching
authority control as part of a library/information science
curriculum the guidelines and methodology used in the creation of
Italy's SBN Authority File Next, Standards, Exchange Formats, and
Metadata covers: Italy's Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana UNIMARC
database, which was created using authority control principles the
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 libraries traditional
international library standards for bibliographic and authority
control the evolution and current status of authority control tools
for art and material culture information the UNIMARC authorities
formatwhat it is and how to work with it Authority Control for
Names and Works brings you useful, current information on: 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 description the LEAF model for collection,
harvesting, linking, and providing access to existing
local/national name authority data national bibliographic control
in China, Japan, and Korea, plus suggestions for future cooperation
between bibliographic agencies in East Asia authority control of
printers, publishers, and booksellers how to create up-to-date
corporate name authority records authority control (and the lack of
it) for works Authority Control for Subjects updates you on:
subject gatewayswith a look at the differences between the Program
for Cooperative Cataloging's SACO program and browsable online
subject gateways MACSa virtual authority file that crosses language
barriers to provide multilingual access OCLC's FAST project, which
strives to retain the rich vocabulary of LCSH while making the
schema easier to understand, control, apply, and use the efforts of
Italy's National Central Library toward semantic authority control
the interrelationship of subject indexing languages and authority
controlwith a look at the semantics vs. syntax issue how subject
indexing is done in Italy's Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
Authority Control Experiences and Proje
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