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 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 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.
Günter Waibel
Program Officer, OCLC Research
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