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Authorities as Things

Authorities as Things. Karen Coyle June, 2011. Authority CONTROL. What does it control?. “To ensure consistency, an authority record is created for each authorized heading for a proper name or subject.”. Lois Mai Chan, Cataloging and Classification, Ed. 2 , p . 165. Focus.

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Authorities as Things

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  1. Authorities as Things Karen Coyle June, 2011

  2. Authority CONTROL What does it control?

  3. “To ensure consistency, an authority record is created for each authorized heading for a proper name or subject.” Lois Mai Chan, Cataloging and Classification, Ed.2, p. 165

  4. Focus Authority control Data web • “Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616”

  5. You can say something about a thing has name “William Shakespeare” was born in Statford-upon-Avon was married to Anne Hathaway wrote As You Like It

  6. You can say something about a thing has name “William Shakespeare” was born in Statford-upon-Avon in shire Warwickshire was married to Anne Hathaway born in 1555 wrote As You Like It is genre comedy

  7. “Name” data – about the name HEADING: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 100 1_ |a Shakespeare, William, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Shakspeare, William, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Saixpēr, Gouilliam, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Shakspere, William, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Shikisbīr, Wilyam, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Szekspir, Wiliam, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Šekspyras, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Šekspir, Viljem, |d 1564-1616 400 1_ |a Tsikinya-chaka, |d 1564-1616 670 __ |a His The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, 1966: |b t.p. (William Shakspeare) 670 __ |a Syeiksŭpʻio, 1978: |b t.p. (Syeiksŭpʻio)

  8. “Thing” data – about the thing

  9. Thing or string? 100 1_ $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 “Personal name” “Dates associated with a name”

  10. Things get identifiers • Consistent • Persistent • Unique in some context

  11. Rules for consistence Same identifier always means same thing do NOT reuse identifiers!

  12. 1. 2. Persistence 3.

  13. Unique… globally 001 2343928 003 CaSfIA http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sj96005301

  14. Identifiers v. names dog =

  15. Words are ambiguous dog =

  16. Identifiers must be precise IDa87nn3 66.ah.773m

  17. Internationalization (i18n) hund (lang=de) dog (lang=en) perro(lang=sp) IDa87nn3 chien (lang=fr)

  18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain = http://viaf.org/viaf/50566653/

  19. Things create connections real name: “Samuel Clemens” born in Florida, Missouri located in Monroe County USA married Olivia Langdon children: 3 wrote Innocents Abroad genre: travel literature

  20. Strings are endpointsThings can connect to other things http://example.org/123 http://example.org/1793 http://example.org/AAbc “William Shakespeare”

  21. FRBR = Entity/RelationshipEntity = THING Work Person Corp Body Family Expression Concept Object Manifestation Event Place Item

  22. FRBR = Entity/RelationshipRelationship = LINK Work Person Corp Body Family Expression Concept Object Manifestation Event Place Item

  23. FRAD/FRSAD Thema Nomen Work Subject Name Work URI has subject Thing URI Label

  24. authority control… can control the names (strings) of things by using identifiers for things and creating labels (strings)

  25. Thank you! http://kcoyle.net/presentations kcoyle@kcoyle.net

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