What's in a Name? : the role of authorities in the 21st century
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Dockside Convention Centre, Sydney
Monday
31st January 2005
Presenters
Ann Huthwaite
Biographical Information
Ann Huthwaite is the Library Resource Services Manager at the QUT Library. Ann has been a member of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing since 1992. From 1995 to 2003 she was the Australian representative on the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC), and was the chair of this committee from 1999 until the end of her term in 2003.
Deirdre Kiorgaard
Biographical Information
Deirdre Kiorgaard was appointed the Manager of Bibliographic Standards & Policy at the National Library of Australia in 2001. As well as being responsible for bibliographic standards policy within technical services at the National Library of Australia, she is also active in the Australian Committee on Cataloguing and the Kinetica Subject Headings Expert Advisory Group. In September 2003 she replaced Ann Huthwaite as the ACOC representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR.
Abstract of Presentation (Joint paper)
Authority control is a vital component of any catalogue. Although AACR2 does provide guidance on choosing access points for bibliographic records and on formulating headings and references, until now it has neglected authority control. AACR2 does not provide information on the principles of authority control or guidance on the essential elements of an authority record.
AACR3, due for publication in 2007, offers the perfect opportunity to redress this. Explicit guidance on authority control and the construction of authority records will be included in a new Part III. Building on the conceptual model provided in FRBR, there will be greater opportunity to expose bibliographic relationships through the use of headings for works and headings for expressions
Gavan McCarthy
Biographical Information
In 1985 Gavan McCarthy was appointed foundation chief archivist of Australian Science Archives Project, then located within and closely connected with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. The Project became a centre within the University in 1999 - the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre - with McCarthy as Director. He is known internationally for his innovative approach to archival description and contextual information management.
Abstract of Presentation
This presentation will briefly present the recently released International Council on Archives standard for archival authorities, ISAAR(CPF), and its accompanying XML document type definition, Encoded Archival Context. Examples will be given of how these standards are being successfully utilised both in Australia and overseas but more particularly attention will be drawn to the potential for archival authority records to be used to achieve the archival vision of an international network of contextually related reference resources. Local and overseas experience from early implementations will be examined and an analysis will be presented of the mechanisms and technologies used.
Ed O'Neill
Biographical Information
Edward T. O'Neill joined the staff at the Office of Research, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, as a Senior Research Scientist in 1983, serving as co-acting Director of Research from 1993 until 1994. Since 1990 he has been Consulting Research Scientist. Dr. O'Neill did his graduate work at Purdue University in Operations Research. He was a faculty member in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University at Buffalo and was later Dean of the Matthew A. Baxter School of Library and Information Science at Case Western Reserve University. His research interests include authority control, subject analysis, database quality, preservation, collection management, bibliographic relationships, and Web characterization. He may be contacted at the Office of Research, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, Ohio 43017. E-mail: oneill@oclc.org
Abstract of Presentation
The VIAF Project
Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB), the
Library of Congress (LC), and OCLC are jointly conducting a project to link
authority records for personal names. OCLC is developing the matching software
to link the authority records from DDB and LC. Shared OAI servers will maintain
the authority files and provide user access. The resulting authority file will
allow users to see the names appropriately displayed. German users will be able
to have the name displayed as it was established by the DDB while American
users will see the name as LC established it, creating the Virtual
International Authority File
The FAST Project
FAST (Faceted Application of Subject
Terminology) is an adaptation the Library of Congress Subject Headings using a
simplified syntax which has been developed by OCLC with the support of the
Library of Congress. It retains the rich vocabulary of the Library of
Congress's Subject Headings in a faceted schema that is easier to understand,
control, apply, and use. The initial version of FAST consists of approximately
two million authority records in six facets: Topical, Geographic, Personal
Name, Corporate Name, Form (Type, Genre), and Chronological (Time, Period. It's
designed to be easy to understand, control, and apply
Margaret Kennedy
Biographical Information
Margaret Kennedy is the Acting Director of Kinetica Database Services at the National Library of Australia. Margaret has been involved in several major projects aimed at increasing the coverage of the National Bibliographic Database (NBD) using new technologies to harvest metadata from contributing sites and converting the data to load to the NBD. She also chaired the Kinetica Expert Advisory Group on Authority Record Delivery, which reported its findings to the Kinetica Advisory Committee in August 2002. Margaret was formerly the Manager of the Kinetica Document Delivery System, Australian Libraries Gateway and the InterLibrary Resource Sharing Directory. Prior to joining Kinetica, Margaret managed the Integrated Library Management System at the National Library.
Roxanne Missingham
Biographical Information
Roxanne Missingham is Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division, National Library of Australia. In this position she is responsible for the Kinetica service, which supports libraries and library users and enables more than 6 million searches to be undertaken each year on databases including the National Bibliographic Database which contains information on material held by Australian libraries (over 38 million holdings). The Division also includes PictureAustralia, Australian Libraries Gateway, Document Supply Services and resource sharing policy. She has a long career in libraries and IT focused on the development of digital delivery and digital services. She has been a library educator, library management and researcher. Active in the library profession, Roxanne was convenor of the Federal Libraries Information Network for 6 years and has been President of the ACT Branch of the Australian Library and Information Association. She has a Degree in Science, a Graduate Diploma In Library and Information Studies and a Masters in Public Administration. She has written extensively on the developments in digital reference and database services and changing needs of clients. E-mail: rmissingham@nla.gov.au
Abstract of Presentation (Joint paper)
People Portal is a term adopted by the National Library of Australia to describe an alternative service model for resource discovery based on people or organisations as the primary objects for retrieval rather than resources. The Library is looking at the feasibility of developing such a service by repurposing and enhancing the content of the Kinetica Name Authority File. Such a service would increase the return of investment made by Australian libraries in the development and maintenance of the Name Authority File, as well as providing opportunities to exploit information about people and organisations created by other cultural agencies and the educational sector. This paper outlines the problem to be solved by the People Portal approach, what the Library has done so far and what would need to be in place to launch a pilot service.


