Authority Control in a Digital Repository: Preparing for Linked Data

Transferring Cataloging Legacies into Descriptive Metadata Creation in Digital Projects: Catalogers’ Perspective

“…Niu (2013) proposed a revolutionary framework in which authorized name headings should be replaced by globally unique identifiers either in or outside of the library community. Myntti and Cothran (2013) brought Linked Data into authority control in digital repositories, which are usually coded in Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) or other standards. In this project, certain metadata fields in XML files were standardized and normalized in accordance with the Library of Congress Names Authority Files (LCNAF) and the LCSH.…”

Extending Name Authority Work beyond the Cataloging Department: A Case Study at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries

“…The project was motivated by not the desire to implement standards across collections, but the desire to implement linked data-friendly metadata. "The premise of linked data is that information need only be updated once since the relevant information in linked data references resides in a single location" 7 Myntti asserts the importance of using LCNAF records when possible because they are stable but acknowledges that digital collections tend to use local names that are seldom present in the LCNAF. 8 Linked data initiatives provide another motivation for digital collections managers to create authority records that are interoperable across institutions.…”

Notes on Operations: Using Automation and Batch Processing to Remediate Duplicate Series Data in a Shared Bibliographic Catalog

“…This process adapted existing services provided by Backstage Library Works to utilize algorithms for reconciling uncontrolled names and subject terms in XML data and replace them with authorized constructions. 15 Frank outlined a method of batch-processing MARC records using MarcEdit and Python, an open source programming language, plus PyMARC, a Python library for parsing MARC record data. 16 To automate the importing of metadata and content during a data migration into the DSpace archive directory format, Walsh at Ohio State University Libraries used Excel, Python, and Perl, another open-source programming language.…”