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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Using Wikipedia to disambiguate names
Silviu Cucerzan at Microsoft Research recently published a paper, "Large-Scale Named Entity Disambiguation Based on Wikipedia Data"
Libraries do something they call "name authority control". For most people in IT, this would be called "assigning unique identifiers to names." Identifying authors is considered one of the essential aspects of library cataloging, and it isn't done in any other bibliographic environment, as far as I know.
VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File
VIAF is a joint project of the Library of Congress (LC), the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), and OCLC. The project's goal is to match and link the library authority files.
The search box at the top of this page searches a prototype of VIAF, which is derived from the personal name authority and related bibliographic data of LC, DNB, and BnF. Matches are shown as links between records (in MARC-21 998 fields).
More information can be found at the OCLC Research VIAF Project page.
IV. Division of Bibliographic Control
Working Group on FRANAR
Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR)
Scope
The Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) was established in April 1999 by the IFLA Division of Bibliographic Control and the IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Programme (UBCIM). Following the end of the UBCIM Programme in 2003, the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) took over joint responsibility for the FRANAR Working Group with the British Library as the responsible body.
The Working Group is charged by the IFLA Division IV:
* To define functional requirements of authority records
* To study the feasibility of an International Standard Authority Data Number
* To serve as the official IFLA liaison to and work with other interested groups concerning authority files.
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