B. Eversberg wrote:
> And an important one too. It gave rise to the VIAF project
> currently under research at OCLC.
> Ultimately, one can imagine an "Authority Google" of sorts,
> a database somewhere in the background that can be consulted
> automatically and transparently by catalog systems (or search
> engines too) every time a personal name is requested. It would
> return (in the positive case) an appropriate ID with which the
> catalog in question can do the actual search.
> With this concept in place, and authority files from the world
> over merged into it eventually, libraries could well stick with
> their national conventions for name headings instead of
> kindly asking their patrons to find and enter enter LC forms of names.
I hope this project is successful. From my understanding of it, it will link the two by providing a link from heading to heading. Will German users get the advantage of searching LC cross-references and English users be able to use the German cross-references?
James Weinheimer
Received on Thu Aug 23 2007 - 07:46:17 EDT