Powerpoints from Martha Yee's and Ed Jones' presentations available

Powerpoints from Martha Yee's and Ed Jones' presentations concerning an alternative way to FRBRize the cataloging rules, given at the ALCTS Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum Monday, January 14, 2008, at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia, are now available at: http://my

Re: Future of authority control?

I'm sure they do know all that information. Maybe their reticence has as much to do with the idea of distributing private information as much as it does with not wanting to incur the business costs (labor, resources)it would take to compile, retain, and update that data. I don't think libraries

Re: Future of authority control?

Ed Jones wrote: On a related question, as long as this collocating function is satisfied, I don't know that it matters anymore whether a name is unique in its display form. Yeah, this is something I've been talking about for a while too and trying to get people to think about. If the collocat

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As an example, data taken from WorldCat Identities would help draw out well-known authors. This could be easily conveyed to the user by the size of the font (the technique used in WorldCat Identities, where font size measures an interaction between the number of manifestations and the number of r

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It seems to me that the value of multiple sources of name information are similar to the better understood use of multiple subject vocabularies. We're now quite comfortable with the idea that there may be multiple sources of subject terms in records, but somehow we haven't gotten our minds aroun

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"Given the publishers must identify the creators of current products (if for no other reason than to send them a check from time to time), they should be brought into the identification task as well." We've already been through part of this discussion on Autocat. Publishers need an author's firs

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Have you ever used the Internet Movie Database? There they have a simple way of qualifying people, even if it does make people look like kings or popes. Ed Jones (I) Ed Jones (II) Ed Jones (III) I thought of this simple numbering system when CC:DA was discussing how best to qualify names at t

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Mike, I understand that publishers do not need to go beyond the author's first and last names, but presumably somewhere they know what publication is connected to the author in order to assign royalties. This is in the business system, not the marketing area. I also presume they have a mailing ad

Future of authority control?

Did others receive an e-mail yesterday from Thomson Scientific about their new ResearcherID service? It's a way for scholars to collect information about themselves. Each person is assigned an ID number and a URL (unique identifiers!). One of the "roles" one can

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The important thing from the user's point of view is finding out if so-and-so has published anything else. Any source that will help in this task is useful. On a related question, as long as this collocating function is satisfied, I don't know that it matters anymore whether a name is unique in

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I'd heard that some of the journal publishers were working on author ID solutions -- it's interesting to see one in practice. It seems to me that we could have more than one author "authority" solution. For current authors, especially those that don't have a real representative (e.g. a fiscal r