Particularly in light of Rodica Krauss's panel "Evolving Authority Control Resources and Techniques in the Digital Age" in Indianapolis, I thought I'd forward this announcement of the new report "Networking Names", written by a delightfully diverse working group of RLG Partners. Some ARLIS regulars, such as Deborah Kempe, Daniel Starr and Amy Lucker, contributed to the report. Enjoy!
Günter
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Networking Names report now available
The fifteen members of the RLG Partners Networking Names Advisory Group <http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/renovating/leveragevocab/netgroup.htm> have articulated the problem space that the research community needs to address and the necessary components for a "Cooperative Identities Hub" that would have the most impact across different target audiences. The group developed fourteen use case scenarios around academic libraries and scholars, archivists and archival users, and institutional repositories that provide the context in which different communities would benefit from aggregating information about persons and organizations, corporate and government bodies, and families, and making it available on a network level.
Check out the just published Networking Names <http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-05.pdf> report that summarizes the group's recommendations on the functions and attributes needed to support the use case scenarios, and send your reactions and comments to Karen Smith-Yoshimura <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Günter Waibel
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