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
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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