1. Strengthening Knowledge Connections: Authority Control in Library Catalogs, Present and Future Jennifer A. Liss Spencer M. Anspach Aaron K. Smith Indiana Library Federation 2015 Annual Conference 17 November 2015

2. Who’s here?

3. What is authority control? Where description and access meet Requires cooperative discernment KDL What’s Next MCPL Juvenile series and sequels Establishing a single access point where various forms of a given name or idea have been used in description

4. Constituting Headings: Personal Names The name of the creator as found in his published works. If more than one name, choose the latest. If more than one form, choose that found most often most recently. If all else fails, choose the fullest form. Add dates and middle names to resolve conflicts. Richard P. Smiraglia Palmer School of Library and Information Science, College of Information and Computer Sciences Long Island University FRBR/CRM Harmonisation Meeting #10

5. 20th century Physical collocation of materials Collocation of local library metadata Card environment Database environment Focus on names and subjects (subject thesauri: Sears, LCSH, LC annotated card, etc.), lesser focus on other descriptive aspects Gradually increasing need for connectivity between multiple institutions, leading to NACO, SACO, ultimately toward VIAF

6. 21st century Collocation of materials and concepts, both virtual and physical Collocation of increasingly universal metadata, involving all information sources and handlers Expansion to include a maximum number of descriptive and access elements of metadata Application of ordered triples subject-predicate-object structures RDF/XML (Resource Description Framework)

7. Liabilities and challenges Language Precedent and inertia of local practice Service population and user need Literacy Infrastructure Administrative will Resources and awareness

8. When it works as it should …

9. … not so much

10. Discovery layers and authority Relevance vs. return Comprehensive or scattershot results? Fuzzy search: gift and curse Need for authority interface in discovery layer applications

11. Really, what can I do?

13. But I’m not an expert!

18. I work in a small library…

21. What difference can I make?

26. Why? (and: Why me?) Jennifer A. Liss Indiana University @cursedstorm

27. The semantic web. WHY? Image: Elco van Staveren linked datalinked data

28. n 2013004339 McGinnis, Mindy Not a drop to drink, 2013: ǂ b ECIP t.p. (Mindy McGinnis) n 2013004339 McGinnis, Mindy Ohio Young adult fiction Otterbein University Librarians ; Authors female Not a drop to drink, 2013: ǂ b ECIP t.p. (Mindy McGinnis) Author's website, 6 Nov. 2015 ǂ b (Mindy McGinnis; asst. YA librarian; lives in OH; BA in English lit. and religion from Otterbein Univ.) ǂ u http://www.mindymcginnis.com/http://www.mindymcginnis.com/ RDA 9.15 RDA 29.1.3 RDA 9.16 RDA 9.7 RDA 9.8 BEFORE 2010 UpdateAFTER 2010 Update “Richer authority data”? MARC21 Format for Authority Data

29. “But none of our discovery systems *use* authority data…”

30. Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)

36. Bibliographic data is a discovery dataset.

37. Authority data

38. Want to know more about SNAC? Start here: SNAC Prototype. Retrieved from http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/snac/search http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/snac/search Pitti, D., Hu, R., Larson, R., Tingle, B. & Turner, A. (2014). Social Networks and Archival Context: From project to cooperative archive program. Journal of Archival Organization 12(1-2), 77-97. Pitti, D. & Tingle, B. (2015). Social Networks and Archival Context Project: from R&D to cooperative program. Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2015 Membership Meeting, April 13-14, 2015. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/127296716 https://vimeo.com/127296716

39. THANK YOU! Aaron K. Smith asmith@acpl.lib.in.usasmith@acpl.lib.in.us Cataloger/Assistant Manager, The Genealogy Center Allen County Public Library Spencer M. Anspach sanspach@indiana.edusanspach@indiana.edu Head, Database Management & Library Systems Analyst/Programmer Indiana University Jennifer A. Liss jaliss@indiana.edujaliss@indiana.edu Head, Monographic Image Cataloging & Metadata Librarian Indiana University