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Charles Kiplagat closed DS-159.
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Resolution: Fixed
desired features from salo discussion
> Authority Control
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> Key: DS-159
> URL: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-159
> Project: DSpace 1.x
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Charles Kiplagat
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> Once faculty and staff are trained to submit content, their metadata is
> surprisingly rich. But there are some problems with the submissions,
> including lack of authority control. # Authority control is desperately
> needed for metadata - for example, using dropdown menus with author names,
> dept. names, degrees offered, etc. As far as I know, there is no general
> approach to name authority control via the DSpace submission UI today. You're
> probably remembering the experiment we did with OCLC using their name
> authority Web Service, which worked quite well except for the fact that most
> of our DSpace submitters aren't published book authors so they weren't in the
> authority file. That's the main problem with authority control in IRs... who
> has the authoritative list of names? If you have a name authority list to
> use, then if it's small you could make the author field a drop-down list. If
> it's large (as I'm sure it is in your case) then you would need a Web Service
> like OCLC's that contained all your names. MIT is working on something like
> that with our campus HR system, but we don't have it working yet -- maybe in
> six months? And if it works here then you might be able to do something
> similar for your own institution. Best, MacKenzie
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