Library Cataloging
On identifying name equivalences in digital libraries by Dror G. Feitelson appears in Information Research, v. 9, no. 4 (July, 2004)
- Problems With Names
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names shows the computer folks are finding names a problem. We could have told them that a long time ago.So, as a public service, I?m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions...
- Oclc Name Authority Service
OCLC has a name authority service using the LC NAF. They have recently improved the matching algorithm.We developed this service so that remotely located systems -- institutional repository software, for example (DSpace, ePrints UK, CONTENTdm, eprints.org,...
- Lpsc Poster
Tuesday I'll be presenting my poster for LPSC. I'm hoping some of the scientists go back to their libraries and clean-up and get their names submitted into the LC Name Authority File. This is a larger problem for women who marry, change their...
- Nlm Authority File
NLM has announced the implementation of a new authority index feature in the NLM Catalog. This feature provides access to an index of full author names (including dates and name qualifiers), organizations, and conference names, as well as series titles,...
- Controlled Vocabulary
There are plenty of subject, name, genre and form controlled vocabulary lists available. Most commonly used in libraries are the name and subject lists from the Library of Congress. Another source is the Getty lists. Besides being useful in themselves,...
Library Cataloging
Authority
On identifying name equivalences in digital libraries by Dror G. Feitelson appears in Information Research, v. 9, no. 4 (July, 2004)
The services provided by digital libraries can be much improved by correctly identifying variants of the same name. For example, this will allow for better retrieval of all the works by a certain author. We focus on variants caused by abbreviations of first names, and show that significant achievements are possible by simple lexical analysis and comparison of names. This is done in two steps: first a pairwise matching of names is performed, and then these are used to find cliques of equivalent names. However, these steps can each be performed in a variety of ways. We therefore conduct an experimental analysis using two real datasets to find which approaches actually work well in practice. Interestingly, this depends on the size of the repository, as larger repositories may have many more similar names.
- Problems With Names
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names shows the computer folks are finding names a problem. We could have told them that a long time ago.So, as a public service, I?m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions...
- Oclc Name Authority Service
OCLC has a name authority service using the LC NAF. They have recently improved the matching algorithm.We developed this service so that remotely located systems -- institutional repository software, for example (DSpace, ePrints UK, CONTENTdm, eprints.org,...
- Lpsc Poster
Tuesday I'll be presenting my poster for LPSC. I'm hoping some of the scientists go back to their libraries and clean-up and get their names submitted into the LC Name Authority File. This is a larger problem for women who marry, change their...
- Nlm Authority File
NLM has announced the implementation of a new authority index feature in the NLM Catalog. This feature provides access to an index of full author names (including dates and name qualifiers), organizations, and conference names, as well as series titles,...
- Controlled Vocabulary
There are plenty of subject, name, genre and form controlled vocabulary lists available. Most commonly used in libraries are the name and subject lists from the Library of Congress. Another source is the Getty lists. Besides being useful in themselves,...