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Authorities Futures. T Hickey OCLC. Why authorities?. Searching. Browsing. Variations on Tchaikovsky. NACO: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich,‡1840-1893 German: Čajkovskij, Pëtr I.‡1840-1893 French: Čajkovskij‡Piotr Ilʹič‡1840-1893 Cyrillic: Чайк o вский, Пётр Ильич (1840-1893).
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Variations on Tchaikovsky NACO: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich,‡1840-1893 German: Čajkovskij, Pëtr I.‡1840-1893 French: Čajkovskij‡Piotr Ilʹič‡1840-1893 Cyrillic: Чайкoвский, Пётр Ильич (1840-1893)
More ways to say Chajkowskii Ciaikovsky, Piotr Ilic 1840-1893Tschaikowsky, Peter Iljitch 1840-1893Tchaikowsky, Peter Iljitch 1840-1893Ciaikovsky, Pjotr Iljc 1840-1893Cajkovskij, P. I. 1840-1893Tsjaikovsky, Peter Iljitsj 1840-1893Czajkowski, Piotr 1840-1893Chaikovsky, P. I. 1840-1893Csajkovszkij, Pjotr Iljics 1840-1893Tsjaïkovskiej, Pjotr Iljietsj 1840-1893Tjajkovskij, Pjotr Ilitj 1840-1893Čaikovskis, P. 1840-1893Chaĭkovskiĭ, Petr Ilʹich 1840-1893Tchaikovski, P. 1840-1893Tchaikovski, Piotr Ilyitch 1840-1893Chaĭkovskiĭ, P. 1840-1893Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893Tchaïkovsky, Piotr Ilitch 1840-1893Tschaikowsky, Pjotr Iljitsch 1840-1893 Tschajkowskij, Pjotr Iljitsch 1840-1893Tchaïkovski, P. I. 1840-1893Ciaikovskij, Piotr 1840-1893Ciaikovskji, Piotr Ilijich 1840-1893Tschaikowski, P. I. 1840-1893Tschaikowski, Peter Illic 1840-1893Tjajkovskij, Peter 1840-1893Chaĭkovski, Pʹotr Ilich 1840-1893Tschaikousky 1840-1893Tschaijkowskij, P. I. 1840-1893Tschaikowsky, P. I. 1840-1893Chaĭkovski, P. I. 1840-1893Tchaïkovski, Petr Ilitch 1840-1893Ciaikovski, Peter Ilic 1840-1893Tschaikowski, Pjotr 1840-1893Tchaikowsky, Pyotr 1840-1893Sinopov, P. 1840-1893Tchaikovskij, Piotr Ilic 1840-1893柴可夫斯基
Wider coverage Published, unpublished, objects, licensed, archival • Multiple sources Machine generated Info. professionals, scholars, researchers, enthusiasts • Broader use of APIs Multiple views Better context Better navigation More mashups Authorities touch everything
Controlling WorldCat • Virtual International Authority File • WorldCat Identities
Controlling names in WorldCat • Has been done semi-manually • Encourages review of all links • For Identities we did this automatically • Research copy of WorldCat • Very aggressive matching • How to move links to WorldCat?
Pretend you are a Connexion Client • Program to: • Log in • Search for record • Verify heading hasn’t changed • Insert authorized form • Add link • Do replace
Then just replace 26 million records • Each update takes two transactions • Retrieve the record • Replace the record • If it takes 2 seconds/update • 52,000,000 seconds • ~ 2 years
But, we can run multiple clients • Connexion can handle 40+ of these clients • ~ 20 records/second • Offline processing has limited capacity • Run 32 clients for 12 hours for 16 updates/second • ~700,000 overnight • Up to a million/day • 3 million/week • 2-3 months elapsed time
DNB Bib & Authority BnF Bib & Authority LC Bib & Authority VIAF • ~7.5 million personal name authority records • ~25 million bibliographic records • ~1.2 million links between files VIAF
Match on • Names and dates in headings • Standard numbers • Titles • Coauthors • Publishers • Personal name as subject
Čajkovskij, Pëtr I. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich Čajkovskij, Pëtr I./ Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich/ Чайкoвский, Пётр Ильич Чайкoвский, Пётр Ильич
Fournier, Marcel,‡1945- Fournier, Marcel Fournier, Marcel,‡1946-
What makes a match? 1,338,606 Title 526,234 Double date 67,749 Joint author 47,499 LCCN 15,867 Partial date and partial title 6,454 Partial date and publisher 4,673 Partial title and publisher 4,116 Name as subject 2,158 Standard number
Next steps for VIAF • Merged display • Better documentation • More participants • Geographics
Merged result • Immediately visible in Identities • Persistent in Identities • Information fed into established channels
Implementation • SRU/SRW server (Z39.50 for the Web) • XML returned • XSLT style sheets transform it to HTML
Syndication • Searchable via SRU, OpenURL • Sitemaps for harvesters • HTML for harvesters and mobile devices • Links in Wikipedia
Thomas Hickey Chief Scientist OCLC hickey@oclc.org http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-54463 http://orlabs.oclc.org/viaf/LC|n82054463