strengthening knowledge connections: authority control in library catalogs, present and future...
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Strengthening Knowledge Connections:
Authority Control in Library Catalogs, Present and Future
Jennifer A. LissSpencer M. Anspach
Aaron K. Smith
Indiana Library Federation 2015 Annual Conference17 November 2015
Who’s here?
What is authority control?•Where description and access meet•Requires cooperative discernment
•KDL What’s Next•MCPL Juvenile series and sequels
•Establishing a single access point where various forms of a given name or idea have been used in description
Constituting Headings:Personal Names•The name of the creator as found in his published
works.• If more than one name, choose the latest.• If more than one form, choose that found most
often most recently.• If all else fails, choose the fullest form.•Add dates and middle names to resolve conflicts.
Richard P. Smiraglia
Palmer School of Library and Information Science, College of Information and Computer Sciences
Long Island University FRBR/CRM Harmonisation Meeting #10
20th century•Physical collocation of materials•Collocation of local library metadata
• Card environment• Database environment
•Focus on names and subjects (subject thesauri: Sears, LCSH, LC annotated card, etc.), lesser focus on other descriptive aspects
•Gradually increasing need for connectivity between multiple institutions, leading to NACO, SACO, ultimately toward VIAF
21st century•Collocation of materials and concepts, both virtual and physical
•Collocation of increasingly universal metadata, involving all information sources and handlers
•Expansion to include a maximum number of descriptive and access elements of metadata
•Application of ordered triples•subject-predicate-object structures•RDF/XML (Resource Description Framework)
Liabilities and challenges •Language•Precedent and inertia of local practice•Service population and user need
•Literacy•Infrastructure•Administrative will
•Resources and awareness
When it works as it should …
… not so much
Discovery layers and authority•Relevance vs. return•Comprehensive or scattershot results?•Fuzzy search: gift and curse•Need for authority interface in discovery layer applications
Really, what can I do?
But I’m not an expert!
I work in a small library…
What difference can I make?
Why? (and: Why me?)
Jennifer A. LissIndiana University
@cursedstorm
The semantic web.
WHY?
Image: Elco van Staveren linked data
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McGinnis, Mindy
Not a drop to drink, 2013: ǂb ECIP t.p. (Mindy McGinnis)
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McGinnis, Mindy
Ohio
Young adult fiction
Otterbein University
Librarians ; Authors
female
Not a drop to drink, 2013: ǂb ECIP t.p. (Mindy McGinnis)
Author's website, 6 Nov. 2015 ǂb (Mindy McGinnis; asst. YA librarian; lives in OH; BA in English lit. and religion from Otterbein Univ.) ǂu http://www.mindymcginnis.com/
RDA 9.15
RDA 29.1.3
RDA 9.16
RDA 9.7
RDA 9.8
BEFORE 2010 Update AFTER 2010 Update
“Richer authority data”? MARC21 Format for Authority Data
“But none of our discovery systems *use* authority data…”
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)
Bibliographic data is a discovery dataset.
Bibliographic data is a discovery dataset.
Authority data
Want to know more about SNAC? Start here:
SNAC Prototype. Retrieved from http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/snac/search
Pitti, D., Hu, R., Larson, R., Tingle, B. & Turner, A. (2014). Social Networks and Archival Context: From project to cooperative archive program. Journal of Archival Organization 12(1-2), 77-97.
Pitti, D. & Tingle, B. (2015). Social Networks and Archival Context Project: from R&D to cooperative program. Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2015 Membership Meeting, April 13-14, 2015. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/127296716
THANK YOU!
Aaron K. Smith [email protected]/Assistant Manager, The Genealogy CenterAllen County Public Library
Spencer M. Anspach [email protected] Head, Database Management & Library Systems Analyst/ProgrammerIndiana University
Jennifer A. Liss [email protected] Head, Monographic Image Cataloging & Metadata LibrarianIndiana University