Organisation and Maintenance of Library Authority Files in Russia and Abroad

The article provides review of foreign and domestic publications on the problems of creation, development and use of authority files (AF) of names of persons, names of organizations, geographical names and other objects both at the international, national and regional levels. The paper presents analysis of the foreign experience of AF maintenance. The authors note that, due to the availability of universal collections and qualified specialists, AF formation abroad is usually carried out by national libraries. A substantive analysis of foreign publications has shown that national AFs (NAF) are characterized by data variability and diversity of approaches. The authors studied the experience of successful combination of NAF created according to different methods within the framework of the international corporate project — Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). The article notes that most of the Russian libraries do not use AF, since AF, created in republican and regional scientific libraries, as a rule, are not publicly available. At the same time, creation by a separate library of its own AF leads to high labour and material costs, and the formation of a large number of AF leads to the variability of the AFs created for the same objects. The authors conclude that for efficient use of AFs within the country, it is necessary to apply unified methods and rules for creation of authority records. Another way out is the application of the Semantic Web technology, which allows linking AFs created according to different methods. It is necessary to make maximum use of existing dictionaries or create dictionaries based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Resource Description Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) standards.

Bibliothekarische Normdaten und digitale Musikwissenschaft

The paper presents the authority data provided by the German authority file (GND), its hisrory and conceptual founding in FRBR and FRAD. Referring to selected examples, the text scrutinizes carefully the potential and obstacles of using name authority data in digital humanities projects. However, the focus lies on the newly implemented work authority data that promises to be highly relevant for digital musicology. Challenges of theoretical concepts as well as practical realization are shown and different application scenarios are discussed. The author calls for a lively exchange between musicologists and librarians on the design and potential of the GND as basic musicological ontology.

An Australian collector's authority file, 1973–2020

Biodiversity databases contain omissions and errors, including those resulting from data entry mistakes and from the use of outdated or incorrect data sources. Some of these omissions and errors can be minimised by the use of authority files, such as expert-compiled taxonomic name databases. However, there are few publicly available authority files for collecting events, and the "where", "when" and "by whom" of specimen data are typically entered into biodiversity databases separately and directly, item by item from specimen labels. Here I describe a publicly available compilation of 3829 of my own collecting events over a 48-year period in Australia. Each record contains a unique combination of date, georeferenced location and location notes.

Author identifier analysis: Name authority control in two institutional repositories

The aim of this poster is to analyze name authority control in two institutional repositories to determine the extent to which faculty researchers are represented in researcher identifier databases. A purposive sample of 50 faculty authors from Florida Southern College (FSC) and Ryerson University (RU) were compared against five different authority databases: Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF), Scopus, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), and International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). We first analyzed the results locally, then compared them between the two institutions. The findings show that while LCNAF and Scopus results are comparable between the two institutions, the difference in the ORCID, VIAF, and ISNI are considerable. Additionally, the results show that the majority of authors at each institution are represented in two or three external databases. This has implications for enhancing local authority data by linking to external identifier authority data to augment institutional repository metadata.

Author identifier analysis: Name authority control in two institutional repositories

The aim of this poster is to analyze name authority control in two institutional repositories to determine the extent to which faculty researchers are represented in researcher identifier databases. A purposive sample of 50 faculty authors from Florida Southern College (FSC) and Ryerson University (RU) were compared against five different authority databases: Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF), Scopus, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), and International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). We first analyzed the results locally, then compared them between the two institutions. The findings show that while LCNAF and Scopus results are comparable between the two institutions, the difference in the ORCID, VIAF, and ISNI are considerable. Additionally, the results show that the majority of authors at each institution are represented in two or three external databases. This has implications for enhancing local authority data by linking to external identifier authority data to augment institutional repository metadata.

Representação e recuperação de nomes de pessoas em catálogos de autoridades

Objetivo: avaliar os recursos funcionais de catálogos de autoridades quanto à representação e à recuperação de nomes de pessoas, bem como a existência ou não de padrão na forma de descrição de nomes de pessoas nos catálogos analisados.Método: trata-se de estudo com abordagem qualitativa, de finalidade aplicada e método descritivo-exploratório, que é parte de um projeto de mestrado da área de Ciência da Informação. Os procedimentos metodológicos da pesquisa foram divididos em duas fases de execução. Na primeira fase da pesquisa, selecionaram-se nove bases de dados e catálogos de autoridades para análise estrutural e funcional global. Na segunda fase, selecionaram-se os catálogos de autoridades do Senado Federal, da Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil e o Virtual International Authority File para avaliação mais detalhada e comparativa, sobretudo em relação à forma de representação e aos recursos de recuperação de nomes de pessoas.Conclusões: os três catálogos de autoridades avaliados na segunda fase do estudo não apresentam inconsistências significativas relacionadas ao controle de autoridades de nomes de pessoas, tal como ocorre nas outras bases de dados analisadas na primeira fase.Resultados: o estudo contribui para o desenvolvimento e aperfeiçoamento de requisitos técnicos em catálogos de autoridades institucionais ou, ainda, para aqueles usuários que precisam utilizar os catálogos analisados neste estudo como fonte de informação, pois apresenta os recursos de busca e recuperação da informação disponíveis e suas funcionalidades práticas, bem como as inconsistências causadas pela falta desses recursos.

Névterekkel az egységes névkezelés felé

Name spaces for unified name management Due to the large amount of data available in online databases and the catalogues of public collections, there is now a legitimate need to find all name and written variants of the same proper name or common name connected to a primary name form, with all the relevant information and features, in a central interface, being able to see the connections among them. This need is fulfilled by so called name spaces, which are online semantic systems and structured dictionaries of mostly personal and place names. The paper describes the general characteristics of name spaces and then presents two global name spaces: the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) and GeoNames. Finally, outlining the situation in Hungary, the paper presents a local name space, that of the Petőfi Literary Museum, and provides an outlook on the upcoming National Name Space.