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RE: Authorities/Database Maintenance Librarian in a consortium setting

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 27, 2010 09:46 AM
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Consortiums involve group effort--which is good; however, it also demands an ability to work together and come to an agreement on practice. It also helps to have someone overseeing/coordinating effort. When it comes to authority control, there usually needs to be someone responsible for loading regular ...

RE: ACIG networks

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 27, 2010 09:35 AM
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Richard, I agree that too many tools can hinder networking as much as help. If it is ALA related, I like using ALA Connect because it is one source everyone has access to and it provides a history of the discussion.

ACIG Midwinter 2010 Program & Business Meeting

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Feb 11, 2010 01:49 PM
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Program summary and business meeting minutes are attached here for public review. acig_2010_midwinter_session_report_doc_10547.doc #GeneralNewsandDiscussion

RE: ALA Midwinter 2010 ACIG meeting

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Feb 09, 2010 08:44 AM
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The presentations are available from the ACIG wiki, they were posted before Midwinter. On the ACIG wiki go to Programs, click on ALA 2010 Midwinter-Boston, scroll down to the 1:30 ACIG time slot and you will see the various presentations and updates to click on, which will give you the opportunity to ...

ALA Midwinter 2010 ACIG meeting

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jan 13, 2010 10:14 AM
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Authority Control Interest Group Meeting A brief presentation Authority Maintenance: To do, or not to do will be given by Mary Mastraccio, Cataloging & Authorities Manager, MARCIVE, Inc. Reports, followed by question and answer time, will be heard from Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester, on ...

RE: ACIG meeting times for Midwinter

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Oct 21, 2009 10:46 AM
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ACIG only meets once during both Midwinter and Annual (once each conference) but there are two parts to the meeting. The first part is the "program" and the second part is business meeting. So far we have not had to split the timing of these two portions. I have not heard confirmation that we have the ...

RE: LC and SKOS

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Aug 10, 2009 07:49 AM
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Currently the linking of LCSH and the RAMEAU vocabularies is stored on the stitch.cs.vu.nl site, which is the SKOS Vocabulary and Alignment Repository Prototype and has a disclaimer "this service and the interface that provides access to it are research prototypes. The data accessible here is for demonstration ...

RE: Spanish equivalents for LCSH

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Aug 07, 2009 11:56 AM
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One of the issues in the past that has delayed the creation of a more official Spanish list in the U.S. has been the inability to find a "generic" version that will suit the different Spanish dialect groups. How does lcsh-es resolve this difference? Have you had any feed-back from the various regions ...

RE: Virtual International Authority File

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 23, 2009 09:44 AM
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With the work on VIAF has any consideration been given to changing the rules for constructing names so that they are more useful in a global context? Many U.S. Corporate names do not provide a qualifier to show it is an American organization instead of a British or Australian, or Canadian, etc. See "National ...

Cooperative Identities Hub

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 07, 2009 01:30 PM
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Cooperative Identities Hub for Names is an OCLC project. Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research, presentation . How open will this Hub be to other groups that want to add to the project or use the data in another environment? Does a participant have to be an OCLC member?

Global authorities in the local catalog

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 07, 2009 01:29 PM
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Global authorities are now being implemented in local cataloging systems. Jeanne Spala, Civica/CMI presentation .

LC and SKOS

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 07, 2009 01:28 PM
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The availability of LSCH on SKOS is now available through http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/ . Janis L. Young presentation .

LibraryThing a model of global authority control

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 07, 2009 01:25 PM
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LibraryThing provides a model of a global community contributing to bibliographic records and authority control. Tim Spalding, LibraryThing founder, presentation .

Registering the RDA vocabulary

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 07, 2009 01:24 PM
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The RDA vocabulary is registered on the MetadataRegistry.org. Diane I. Hillmann presentation .

Spanish equivalents for LCSH

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 07, 2009 01:22 PM
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In response to a long-standing need for Spanish subject access points lcsh-es.org is providing Spanish equivalents for LCSH. Michael Kreyche, Systems Librarian, Kent State Univ., presentation .

Virtual International Authority File

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jul 07, 2009 01:21 PM
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The VIAF is a cooperative project of OCLC and national libraries. Dr. Thomas Butler, OCLC Research, update presentation .

RE: Hello!

Posted By Mary Mastraccio Jun 03, 2009 02:27 PM
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The ALA Annual meeting is July 12, 2009, 1:30-4:30 at the McCormick Place West,   room W-179. The theme of the program is The Future is Now: Global Authority Control and will look at the expansion of authority control through increased collaboration and technological control of data, as well as added ...