How should catalogers provide authority control for journal article authors? Name identifiers in the linked data world

Jane Sandberg, Qiang Jin

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Abstract

This article suggests that catalogers can provide authority control for authorsof journal articlesby linkingtoexternal international authority databases. It explores the representation of article authors from three disciplines in four databases: International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Scopus, and Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). VIAF and Scopus are particularly promising databases for journal author names, but we believe that a combination of several name databases holds more promise than relying on a single database. We provide examples of RDF links between bibliographic description and author identifiers, includingapartialBIBFRAME2.0description.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)537-552
Number of pages16
JournalCataloging and Classification Quarterly
Volume54
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 16 2016

Keywords

  • Authority control
  • BIBFRAME
  • Discovery layers
  • Linked data
  • Name authority data
  • Virtual International Authority File
  • Vocabulary control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Library and Information Sciences

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