Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electronic Environment

Gorman, Michael

doi:10.1300/j104v38n03_03

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“…Catalogers are responsible for describing these materials and creating access points. Cataloging also includes authority control to ensure the consistency of access points through terminological control (Gorman, 2004;Svenonius, 1986;Tillett, 2004). These access points-typically name and subject terms and phrases-are then used to help the user find, identify, select, and obtain relevant resources via the library catalog.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authority Control for Scientific Data: The Case of Molecular Biology

Stvilia

Lee

2012

Journal of Library Metadata

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This article analyzes the authority control practices in molecular biology using literature review and scenario analysis and makes a comparison with bibliographic authority control. The analysis indicates the absence of conceptual authority control model in molecular bioinformatics. In addition to traditional knowledge organization tools, authority control in molecular biology requires the use of reference sequences and version numbers to identify entities and keep track of entity changes. The identified authority control issues are conceptualized as quality problems caused by four sources. This study can inform librarians and educators of the need for and approaches to authority control in molecular biology.

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Authority Control for Scientific Data: The Case of Molecular Biology

Stvilia

Lee

2012

Journal of Library Metadata

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“…To be truly useful as a tool for access and collocation, he argues, the content of metadata fields must be subject to some level of authority control. 4 The application of this concept to ERM data presents strong support for NCSU Libraries' decision incorporate a name authority into E-Matrix.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 90%

Creating Organization Name Authority within an Electronic Resources Management System

Blake¹,

Samples²

2009

Library Resources &Amp; Technical Services

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Staff members at North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries have identified the need for name authority control within E-Matrix, a locally developed electronic resources management (ERM) system, to support collection intelligence, the process of collecting, collocating, and analyzing data associated with a collection to gain a sophisticated understanding of its qualities for strategic planning and decision making. This paper examines the value of establishing authority control over organization names within an ERM system in addition to describing NCSU's design for conducting name authority work in E-Matrix. A discussion of the creation of a name authority tool within E-Matrix is provided along with illustrations and examples of workflow design and implementation for the assignment of authoritative headings. Current practices related to authority control and ERM systems in academic libraries and within organizations such as the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) are also investigated and summarized to provide context for this project. Future possibilities for the use of this type of authority control on the part of librarians, vendors, and standards bodies are explored. A s electronic resources management (ERM) systems become more advanced and their use more widespread, libraries have begun to consider the potential of these systems to aid in collections decisions by performing advanced data analysis functions. Name authority control is of critical importance if ERM systems are to be put to this use because information drawn into a system from different sources must be collocated to produce accurate and useful analyses and reports. Throughout the development of E-Matrix, a homegrown ERM system, North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries has focused on the application's potential to facilitate effective collection intelligence, the process of collecting, collocating, and analyzing data associated with a collection to gain a sophisticated understanding of its qualities in order to strategically plan and make decisions. E-Matrix centralizes information from the library's catalog, link resolver, and assorted flat files within a single database and can perform analysis functions that include data from all of these sources. A challenge presented by this process is the identification and collocation of data elements imported to E-Matrix in a multiplicity of uncontrolled formats. Data about organizations, such as the names of publishers, vendors, providers , and licensors of serials and electronic resources, has been the most difficult element to normalize within E-Matrix. Because organization names are imported from unformatted fields created for outside applications, the data in E-Matrix naturally lacks consistency. The names of organizations appear in dozens of variant and erroneous forms, with neither any indication of connections between entities that indicate business relationships nor authorized forms of names. In aiming to use E-matrix as a sophisticated reporting and collection intelligence tool, ...

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“…O controle de autoridade busca a consistência dos pontos de acesso e correta identificação das entidades responsáveis pelas obras e historicamente é um dos aspectos mais dispendiosos na descrição bibliográfica (BURGER, 1985;GORMAN, 2003;ASSUMPÇÃO;SANTOS, 2012).…”

Section: Ao Longo Da úLtima Década Novos Instrumentos De Modelagem Runclassified

Bibframe: modelo de dados interligados para bibliotecas

Ramalho

2016

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Introdução: O desenvolvimento tecnológico da última década tem proporcionado novos instrumentos de modelagem, representação e organização de recursos informacionais nas mais diversas áreas do conhecimento. No campo da Ciência da Informação destaca-se o Bibliographic Framework (BIBFRAME) como um novo modelo de dados que possibilita a descrição formal dos relacionamentos entre os recursos. Este modelo está relacionado com as tendências de pesquisa envolvendo Linked Data; Data Science; Publicação Ampliada e Web Semântica.Objetivo: Fornecer subsídios teóricos que contribuam para uma melhor compreensão do modelo de dados BIBFRAME, descrever seus elementos e apresentar uma discussão sobre os principais desafios e perspectivas de uso deste novo modelo de dados em bibliotecas.Metodologia: Pesquisa exploratória e descritiva, com abordagem teórica.Resultados: Foram apresentadas as principais tecnologias, elementos conceituais e características do modelo BIBFRAME e relatados os desafios e perspectivas de uso deste novo modelo de dados em bibliotecas. Conclusões: O modelo BIBFRAME contribui para uma mudança de paradigma em relação à forma como encaramos os processos de controle, troca e compartilhamento de recursos informacionais, fornecendo um impulso para o reposicionamento das bibliotecas no cenário contemporâneo, a fim de fortalecer atividades relacionada à identificação e formalização dos relacionamentos entre recursos disponíveis na Web.

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Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electronic Environment

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Authority Control for Scientific Data: The Case of Molecular Biology

Authority Control for Scientific Data: The Case of Molecular Biology

Creating Organization Name Authority within an Electronic Resources Management System

Bibframe: modelo de dados interligados para bibliotecas

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