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Authority control in a library environment is the establishment and maintenance of consistent forms of names and terms to be used as authorized access points in records of the library catalog. Authorized access points must not only be consistent, each one must be unique. Traditional library practice focused on controlling names (personal, corporate, governmental, and geographic), works, and subjects. While authority control has always been important for library catalogs, with the growth of new environments of linked data it is becoming even more, with increasing elements in the catalog being represented by authorized forms. (One example: using authorized terms for occupations in authority records.) | Authority control in a library environment is the establishment and maintenance of consistent forms of names and terms to be used as authorized access points in records of the library catalog. Authorized access points must not only be consistent, each one must be unique. Traditional library practice focused on controlling names (personal, corporate, governmental, and geographic), works, and subjects. While authority control has always been important for library catalogs, with the growth of new environments of linked data it is becoming even more, with increasing elements in the catalog being represented by authorized forms. (One example: using authorized terms for occupations in authority records.) | ||
See [[Contacting people for authority control]] for details on contacting authority file subjects directly. | |||
==Authority control at the Folger== | ==Authority control at the Folger== | ||
Revision as of 14:24, 22 December 2014
Authority control in a library environment is the establishment and maintenance of consistent forms of names and terms to be used as authorized access points in records of the library catalog. Authorized access points must not only be consistent, each one must be unique. Traditional library practice focused on controlling names (personal, corporate, governmental, and geographic), works, and subjects. While authority control has always been important for library catalogs, with the growth of new environments of linked data it is becoming even more, with increasing elements in the catalog being represented by authorized forms. (One example: using authorized terms for occupations in authority records.)
See Contacting people for authority control for details on contacting authority file subjects directly.
Authority control at the Folger
The Folger is a member of NACO and SACO; the Folger PCC liaison is Deborah J. Leslie. For NACO training schedule and workflows, see NACO in Bard2.
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Terminology
- control
- to link an instance of an authorized access point to its authority record
- AAP
- authorized access point (formerly, and sometimes still, known as heading)
- BFM
- bibliographic file maintenance
- LC/NACO Authority File
- the authority file maintained by the Library of Congress in collaboration with the PCC
- NACO
- Name Authority Cooperative Program; component of the PCC for name authority records
- NAF
- name authority file
- NAR
- name authority record
- PCC
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging
- PVR
- previously verified record; (used in the context of changes made to existing NARs)
- SACO
- Subject Authority Cooperative Program; component of the PCC for subject authority records
- SAR
- subject authority record
- VIAF
- Virtual International Authority File