Bringing Authority Control to the Web
My colleague, Miss Zhang Chunjing, will give a presentation at SILF2008, which is going to be held on the following Tuesday. The presentation is based on a co-authored paper titled “the Authority Control for the Web Resources” by me and herself. To help her prepare the English lecture, I would like to make some of the arguments in the paper more clear with the following background thoughts in English.
In the vision of Semantic Web by Tim Burners-Lee and with the maturing of semantic technology, it gives us an opportunity to spread out the concept of bibliographic control into the Web at the Internet scale. Each piece of information with a URI on the Web can be treated as a “document” (resource), so some of them can be authority controlled by means of an experienced and proved way from Library and Information Science, to bring some kind of authority semantics to the Web, and implement the trusted Web idea to some extent.
Control is a way to go Trust. We can never fully “bibliographically” control of everything on the Web (like DC metadata guys’ wish in the early years of the Web). What we can do is try to implement a little bit “authority” by means of transplant our traditional authority control approaches into the Web. Although we believe “a little control will go a long way.”
Here are the definitions for Bibliographic Control and Authority Control which we followed in our paper:
Bibliographic Control (BC): a broad term encompassing all the activities involved in creating, organizing, managing, and maintaining the file of bibliographic records representing the items held in a library or archival collection, or the sources listed in an index or database, to facilitate access to the information contained in them.
Authority Control (AC): refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic material in a catalog. It fulfills two important functions. First, it enables catalogers to disambiguate items with similar or identical headings. Second, authority control is used by catalogers to collocate materials that logically belong together (ie. with the help of uniform titles). Theoretically, any piece of information is amenable to authority control, but catalogers typically focus on authors and titles. Subject headings fulfill a function similar to authority records, although they are usually considered separately.
Dr. Gorman had a good discussion on the relationship between BC and AC here. Search Engine like Google can be thought as a kind of BC on the Internet. But it has no means of AC.
The ongoing research for the Future Bibliographic Control set a basis and starting point to the Web Authority Control. It contains several aspects as follows:
- FRBR: Provides a framework and model for the AC.
- FRAD: Defines the functional requirement for authority data incl. uniform heading of works and agents, but not including KOS, events, and temporal/spacial name.
- FRSAR: Mainly contains KOS.
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