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ACIG 2011 Annual Program Announcement

  • 1.  ACIG 2011 Annual Program Announcement

    Posted May 31, 2011 07:26 AM

    The Authority Control Interest Group (ACIG) invites you to join us for our featured speakers and business meeting to be held Sunday, June 26, 1:30-5:30 at the Sheraton in the Waterbury Ballroom.

    Co-sponsored by ALA, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, and MARCIVE, Inc.

     

    Program Topic: Authority Control in the Next Generation

    Sponsored by: Authority Control Interest Group (ACIG)

    Time: Sunday, June 26, 1:30-5:30

    Location: Sheraton, Waterbury Ballroom

     

    LC report, presented by Janis Young, Policy and Standards Division, Library of Congress.

     

    Authority Control, New Library Standards, and the Semantic Web, presented by Gordon Dunsire, a freelance consultant with a background in cataloguing and systems librarianship, and a member of the FRBR Review Group and ISBD/XML Study Group.

    This presentation will discuss the place of authority control in new bibliographic standards such as the Functional requirements family for bibliographic records (FRBR), authority data (FRAD), and subject authority data (FRSAD), Resource Description and Access (RDA), and the consolidated edition of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD). RDA incorporates authority control to a much greater extent than its predecessor, the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, while ISBD employs controlled vocabularies for the first time, in the new Area 0 for content form and media type. A brief non-technical introduction to the concept of triples and linked data is followed by a discussion of the importance of authority control concepts in the Semantic Web and their application to library linked data. The presentation will also discuss the potential impact of the linked data environment on the development and maintenance of library authority data.

     

    Authorities: The Things of Library Data, presented by Karen Coyle, a librarian with over thirty years of experience with library technology.

    One of the basic concepts of the semantic web is that the information world is made up of Things that have relationships to other Things. To make this work, a community that produces data needs to define all of the Things that will be part of the community's data set, and every Thing has to have a unique identifier. In fact, libraries have been doing this for over a century with authority data. This talk will highlight some of the differences between how the semantic web and libraries have managed their Things, and will show how these differences can be (and are being) overcome.

     

    The Getty Vocabularies: Issues in Authority Control for Art and Architecture, presented by Robin Johnson, a senior standards editor in the Getty Vocabulary Program, Getty Research Institute.

    The Getty vocabularies may be used as non-authoritarian authorities for cataloging art and architecture. This approach to designing terminology was necessary for art information several decades ago, and it is now seen as a practical approach to utilizing terminology across many disciplines and incorporating vocabularies as linked data. This presentation will describe the Getty vocabularies, the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)®, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®, the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)®, and the new vocabulary in development, the Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)™.

     

    A business meeting and elections will follow the featured presentations.