New ways of sharing and using authority information: The LEAF project

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Kaiser, Max ^a   Lieder, Hans Jörg ^b   Majcen, Kurt ^c   Vallant, Heribert ^c  

^a Austrian National Library   (Austria)

^b State Library Berlin   (Germany)

^c JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

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EID: 3042593373     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/november2003-lieder     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. LEAF project home page, .
2. Current developments in this sector were recently summarized and future trends formulated in: Barbara B. Tillett: Authority Control: State of the Art and New Perspectives (Paper presented at the international conference "Authority Control: Definition and International Experiences", Florence, February 10-12, 2003), .
3. Library of Congress Authorities, , and Autorités RAMEAU, .
4. Personennamendatei, .
5. For an actual overview of the different international initiatives, see the papers presented at the international conference "Authority Control: Definitions and International Experience" held in Florence, February 10-12, 2003, .
6. See the overview in John D. Byrum, Jr.: NACO: A Cooperative Model for Building and Maintaining a Shared Name Authority Database (Paper presented at the international conference "Authority Control: Definition and International Experiences", Florence, February 10-12, 2003), .
7. Library of Congress MARC Standards, .
8. VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File, .
9. Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, .
10. A comprehensive description of the LEAF consortium can be found at the Project website: , link "Partners".
11. Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken-Automated Library Exchange Format; .
12. Encoded Archival Context. See the section "Data Conversion" in this article.
13. MALVINE (Manuscripts And Letters Via Integrated Networks in Europe), .
14. See Encoded Archival Description (EAD), .
15. See Daniel V. Pitti: Creator Description - Encoded Archival Context (Paper presented at the international conference "Authority Control: Definition and International Experiences", Florence, February 10-12, 2003),
16. See the description of the EAD elements , , and in the EAD Tag Library: .
17. See Encoded Archival Context (EAC), .
18. The pre-release of the EAC DTD beta version and a draft tag library is available at .
19. International Council on Archives, Committee on Descriptive Standards, .
20. See International Council on Archives, Committee on Descriptive Standards, Standards and Guidelines, .
21. It is obvious from the above that the result of a particular user interaction-this is also true for the provision of services-largely depends on the type of user who triggers this interaction. The system is of course open for unregistered users who can perform simple and advanced search as well as retrieval operations. Additionally LEAF distinguishes four other types of registered users, ranging from registered public users to professionals (who may either proactively provide authority data to LEAF or not) and external service providers. LEAF allocates different rights to each of these user types.
22. An example: the Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (Library of Congress main heading), is listed in the German PND as "Ivan S. Turgenev" (a German user will probably search for "Iwan Turgenjew") and in the French RAMEAU (Répertoire d'autorité-matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié) as "Ivan Sergueevitch Tourguenev".
23. TEL (The European Library), .
24. See Genevieve Clavel-Merrin: National Libraries as Access points: The Role of TEL and MACS (Paper presented at the 69th IFLA General Conference and Council, Berlin, Germany, August 1-9, 2003), .
25. SRW - Search/Retrieve Web Service, .