New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information

Max, Kaiser; Lieder, Hans-Jörg; Majcen, Kurt; Vallan, Heribert

doi:10.1045/november2003-lieder

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“…More work is needed to study the process of extending existing authority files based on historical reference works, merging controlled vocabularies from multiple sources, and finally incorporating local authority files into general authority files as it seems appropriate. Our experience suggests that a distributed model of authority control as suggested by several researchers [20,17,31] could provide a standardized infrastructure for this process.…”

Section: Named Entitiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The LEAF project reported that "a common format is not yet available for the exchange of authority data within the archival community or for the cross domain exchange of such data between libraries, archives, museums and related institutions." [17] OCLC is also currently working on a Virtual International Authority File project with the LC and the German National Library to test automatic linking of LC-NAF and German Personal Name Authority File through OCLCs matching algorithms [32]. In a recent article, the LCs Barbara Tillett has also suggested the possible creation of a "virtual union authority file" that would link all national authority files to a central server, each authority file would be hosted locally and this server would simply harvest data as requested by the user [31].…”

Section: Authority List Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2005

Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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One of the criticisms library users often make of catalogs is that they rarely include information below the bibliographic level. It is generally impossible to search a catalog for the titles and subjects of particular chapters or volumes. There has been no way to add this information to catalog records without exponentially increasing the workload of catalogers. At the same time, well-structured full-text XML transcriptions of printed works are becoming increasingly available. This paper describes how existing investments in full text digitization and structural markup combined with current named-entity extraction technology can efficiently generate the detailed level of catalog data that users want, at no significant additional cost. This system is demonstrated on an existing digital collection within the Perseus Digital Library.

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Section: Named Entitiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Authority List Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finding a catalog

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Jones

Crane

2005

Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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“…Highly visible attempts at author disambiguation can be seen in would permit national or regional variations in authorized form to co-exist, thereby supporting worldwide users' needs for variations in preferred language, script, and spelling [5]. The possibility of global integrated authority control data has made feasible many potential scenarios of use [7,12]. A key idea has been to use authority records as a building block for the Semantic Web [23].…”

Section: The Expansion In the Population Of Authors Seen Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive context-aware user-driven metadata correction in digital libraries

2012

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Personal name variants are a common problem in digital libraries, reducing the precision of searches and complicating browsing-based interaction. The bookcentric approach of name authority control has not scaled to match the growth and diversity of digital repositories. In this paper we present a novel system for user-driven integration of name variants when interacting with web-based informationin particular digital librarysystems. We approach these issues via a clientside JavaScript browser extension that can reorganize web content and also integrate remote data sources. Designed to be agnostic towards the web sites it is applied to, we illustrate the developed proof-of-concept system through worked examples using three dierent digital libraries. We discuss the extensibility of the approach in the context of other user-driven information systems and the growth of the Semantic Web. Bibliometrics: Downloads (6 Weeks): 1, Downloads (12 Months): 9, Downloads (Overall): 170, Citation Count: 6 This paper outlines a system for searching and browsing 1.14 million images from the World Wide Web (WWW) based on their visual content. At the heart of the system lies an automatically constructed network of images that can be navigated quickly by following ... Bibliometrics: Downloads (6 Weeks): 1, Downloads (12 Months): 9, Downloads (Overall): 170, Citation Count: 6 This paper outlines a system for searching and browsing 1.14 million images from the World Wide Web (WWW) based on their visual content. At the heart of the system lies an automatically constructed network of images that can be navigated quickly by following ... Result page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next >> start a new search) Found 221 within The ACM Guide to Computing Literature (Bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing) Bibliometrics: Downloads (6 Weeks): 1, Downloads (12 Months): 9, Downloads (Overall): 170, Citation Count: 6 This paper outlines a system for searching and browsing 1.14 million images from the World Wide Web (WWW) based on their visual content. At the heart of the system lies an automatically constructed network of images that can be navigated quickly by following ... Bibliometrics: Downloads (6 Weeks): 1, Downloads (12 Months): 9, Downloads (Overall): 170, Citation Count: 6This paper outlines a system for searching and browsing 1.14 million images from the World Wide Web (WWW) based on their visual content. At the heart of the system lies an automatically constructed network of images that can be navigated quickly by following ...

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“…Recollecting the main purpose of library authority records-the disambiguation of persons described-it may be argued that those records leading to wrong links are not sufficiently rich in content to serve their original purpose. 18 The project ran as a funded test for thirty-six months, ending in May 2004. Thereafter it was left as an integrated part of the MALVINE search engine, where it is still used because it is seen as "highly relevant [content] to the cultural heritage of Europe."…”

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Supporting Name Authority Control in XML Metadata: A Practical Approach at the University of Tennessee

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2009

Library Resources &Amp; Technical Services

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While many different endeavors to support name authority control in Extensible Markup Language (XML) metadata have been explored, none have been accepted as a best practice. For this reason, libraries continue to experiment with the sche-ma, tool, or process that best suits their local authority control needs in XML. This paper discusses current endeavors to support name authority control in XML for digitized collections and demonstrates an innovative manual solution developed and implemented by the University of Tennessee Libraries to achieve this goal. Even though this method for authority control in XML metadata still relies on manual efforts, it effectively reduces time and research work by efficiently setting priorities, identifying critical descriptive areas in the digital transcriptions, and identifying the most appropriate biographical resources to consult. The effectiveness of this approach in improving the rest of the metadata production workflow is evaluated and presented. Soon after starting digitization projects, many libraries and other institutions often find that keeping track of name access points in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a huge challenge, regardless of the XML schema used. This is particularly the case in many types of digitized objects such as manuscripts, music, and other types of special collections where the number of personal names is exponentially more than the number of items digitized; the names are dispersed all over the digitized transcriptions; and information about these names is ambiguous, vague, and incomplete. However, no matter how difficult keeping track of name access points in digitized materials is, it is necessary in order to keep digitized objects retrievable. Access points not only help in the retrieval process of documents, but also help keep materials by the same creators or about the same subjects together. To keep a successful track of name access points in XML documents, libraries have been experimenting with many different endeavors to find an effective way to achieve this goal. So far the efforts created to support name authority control in XML metadata consist of (1) using XML schemas to encode authority data; (2) endeavors for shared, cooperative, national, and international XML name databases; (3) manual and automated conversion tools from Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) to XML; and (4) automated generation of authority control through especially designed systems. The problem with most of these endeavors is that they only address the issue of how to encode name access points utilizing XML authority schema; they do not address the issue of how to extract or harvest these names directly from the XML records and transform them into useful access points. The few endeavors that have tried, such as the systems for automated generation of authority control, have only been successful in extracting names from XML records but not in turning them into

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New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information

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Interactive context-aware user-driven metadata correction in digital libraries

Supporting Name Authority Control in XML Metadata: A Practical Approach at the University of Tennessee

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