Exploring Models for Shared Identity Management at a Global Scale: The Work of the PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO

Abstract

The paper discusses the efforts of the PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO to explore and advance identity management activities. The Task Group's work serves as a recent example of how the Program for Cooperative Cataloging has engaged the metadata community to incubate practical solutions to the perennial capacity issues that libraries face in creating and maintaining authority and bibliographic data. The Task Group's multi-pronged charge compelled several outputs including research, collaboration, education, and publication. This paper outlines the Task Group's labors within the context of the decades of innovations carried out under the banner of the PCC.

Authority Control of Arabic Personal Names: RDA and Beyond

“…70 To that end, it has initiated several projects in preparation to accommodate a NACO Lite program that would encompass "streamlined procedures for contributing authority data and … broadened participation in that activity." 71 One such project is the PCC URIs in MARC Pilot, in which participants add Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to bibliographic and authority records. 72 The success of such pilots may lead to NACO Lite authority records that require only a name string and a URI from a source such as Wikidata, as recently described by Frank.…”