Jason Griffey schrieb:
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> This is a really interesting idea...something like OpenID for authority information. I adore the idea of distributed authority records, managed through metadata.
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There's the VIAF project, a result of which is OCLC's "Identities":
http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/
VIAF means "Virtual International Authority File"
The goal is distributed authority control.
If only it had an alphabetically arranged browsing index of all forms of
names it contains.
B.Eversberg
Received on Tue May 15 2007 - 01:53:59 EDT