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Distributed authority control in the age of web 2.0: The case of LibraryThing

This article explores the challenges and benefits of distributed authority control in the digital age, using LibraryThing as a case study. It discusses the combination and separation of works, common knowledge pages, expert vs. crowd opinions, and the role of subject headings and tags.

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Distributed authority control in the age of web 2.0: The case of LibraryThing

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  1. Distributed authority control in the age of web 2.0:The case of LibraryThing Amanda Watson Questioning Authority conference March 29, 2008

  2. http://www.librarything.com

  3. Part of the LibraryThing tag cloud

  4. Combining and separating works

  5. Combined tags: “19th century”

  6. Detail: author page for Mark Twain, showing combined name variants

  7. Common Knowledge page for The Hobbit

  8. Expert vs. crowd Images: “Authority of Law” sculpture by James Earle Fraser, U.S. Supreme Court (photo credit: D. B. King) Rally in Union Square, early 1910s (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection)

  9. LC subject search for “Cookery, Italian”

  10. Subject headings and tags in action

  11. Disambiguation: William Gibson

  12. Popular & unpopular authors J. R. R. Tolkien Barnabe Barnes

  13. LibraryThing for Libraries (Claremont Colleges)

  14. Title confusion in Web of Science

  15. Thank you! Amanda Watson (amanda . watson @ gmail . com)

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