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A Virtual International Authority File
Presentation byBarbara B. Tillett, Ph.D.
Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office Library of Congress
for the Council on East Asian Libraries, Association for Asian Studies, Committee on Technical Processing, 2002 Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
April 4, 2002
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Objectives
Assure consistency (following a standard set of rules and guidelines)
Use controlled forms to efficiently collocate
Facilitate sharing to reduce cataloguing costs to libraries, museums, archives, rights management agencies, etc.
Enable users to access information in the language, script, form they prefer
Simplify creation and maintenance of authority records internationally
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Authority control virtues
“Precision” in searchingSyndetic structure of references to help
navigate (the variant forms of name/title/subject/etc.)
Displays to collocate worksLinks to forms used in particular
resourcesBring library catalogues into the mix of
tools available on the Web
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Projects to facilitate authority control on a global scale
EU: AUTHOR Project, LEAF, <indecs>, INTERPARTY
IFLA: FRBR, MLAR, FRANARDublin Core “Agents”DELOS/NSF “Actors-Roles”CORC (OCLC)Unicode (Multiple Scripts)NACO/SACO for AACR2 and LSCH Users
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Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
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IFLA UBC authority principles
Each country responsible for authority headings for its own personal and corporate authors
National authority records available for everyone to use
Same form and structure used worldwide
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New view of UBC
User perspective - to display script/language of one’s own country
National Bibliographic Agencies still responsible for control in their own countries (or region/cataloguing rules/etc.)
Link forms established in “national” authority files to create a virtual international authority file
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Same Entity/Variant Scripts
Japanese
japanisch
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Computer programs to facilitate future authority work
Automatic check of heading against existing local authority file
If not found, automatic check against “virtual” international authority file
Display found matches for editing or reference
Insert authorized forms into local authority record for future link
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Switching for displays
Library defaultUser-selected preferences
Client set-up, “cookies,” or future methodLanguageScriptCulture (country)/spelling
• Labor vs. Labour
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Scenario 1
Original cataloguing with match found for same entity in local authority file
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Scenario 1
Create bibliographic record
100 1 ‡a Tchaikovsky, Peter I
245 ‡a Piano concerto
Check local authority file
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Scenario 1
Corrects bibliographic record
100 1 ‡a Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, ‡ d 1840-1893
245 ‡a Piano concerto
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Scenario 2 - Web launch
Original cataloguing with no match found in local authority file
Launches Web search of virtual international authority file Assumes response times/system
reliability will improve in future
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Scenario 2
Create bibliographic record
100 1 ‡a Tchaikovsky, Peter I
245 ‡a Piano concerto
Not found in local authority file.Checking VIAF.
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RUSMARC-recordМаркер: 00445nx 22001453 450001: 10326005: 20001108144619.0100: $a20001108arusy0103 ca200: 1$8rus$7ca$aЧайковский$bП. И.$f1840- 1893$gПетр Ильич$4070200: 1$8rus$7ba$aChajkovskij$bP. I.$f1840-1893$gPetr Il'ich$4070300: 0 $aРусский композитор, ученик А.Г. Рубинштейна.700: 1$310327$8rus$7ba$4070810: $aВсемирный биографический энциклопедический словарь. - М., 1998.801: 0$arus$brnb$c20001108
810: $aГАК РНБ.
Your search of the Virtual International Authority File found the following match:
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Scenario 2
Link authorities
100 1 ‡a Tchaikovsky, Peter I
Create and Link? Yes
No
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700 1 ‡a Чайковский‡b П. И.‡d 1840-1893‡q Петр Ильич ‡0 ()10326 ‡2 ‡l rus
Automatically creates local authority record
010 ‡a n 79072979 040 ‡a DLC ‡b eng 100 1 ‡a Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, ‡d 1840-1893 400 1 ‡a Chajkovskii, Petr Il’ich, ‡d 1840-1893
Cataloguer adds AACR2 form
with link
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Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
Tchaikovsky
()10326
(LC)n79072979
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Scenario 2
Corrects bibliographic record
100 1 ‡a Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, ‡ d 1840-1893
245 ‡a Piano concerto
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Local system - User view
User’s cookie specifies Cyrillic/Russian preferred.
Display 700 form, building on local system’s authority structure
, , 1840-1893
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Matching retrospective files
One time projectMatching algorithms, such as those
developed by Ed O’Neill and others at OCLC
Links Text strings Control numbers
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Centralized - Union Authority File (OAI Model)
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Semantic Web Building Blocks
End-user
A&I controlledvocabularies
(Library) authority files
Other controlled vocabularies
“Ontologies”
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Semantic Web Building Blocks
End-user
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Semantic Web Building Blocks
End-user
“Ontologies”
Web search engines
Digital world
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Future