Implementing Name Authority Control into Institutional Repositories: A Staged Approach

Submitted by HTarver on Mon, 2013-03-04 19:29
Author(s)
First Name: 
Hannah
Last Name: 
Tarver
Affiliation: 
University of North Texas Libraries
First Name: 
Laura
Last Name: 
Waugh
Affiliation: 
University of North Texas Libraries
First Name: 
Mark
Last Name: 
Phillips
Affiliation: 
University of North Texas Libraries
First Name: 
Will
Last Name: 
Hicks
Affiliation: 
University of North Texas Libraries
Keywords: 
name authority; authority control; applications; implementation
Track: 
General conference
Paper
Abstract: 

This paper outlines some issues with authority control in institutional repositories (IRs) and how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries have approached controlled vocabularies. In particular, it describes the staged approach used for implementing name authority in the UNT Digital Library, which has four steps:

  1. put vocabularies on the Web as five-star open linked data,
  2. make vocabularies available to metadata creators who actively use them,
  3. store links, not strings, and
  4. make data meaningful to users.

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