Authority control: State of the art and new perspectives

Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-42

  Tillett, Barbara B ^a  

^a LIBRARY OF CONGRESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Access control; Authority control; Cataloging objectives; Precision of searching; Universal bibliographic control; Virtual international authority file

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905813291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v38n03_04     Document Type: Chapter

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9. "The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)-is a structured vocabulary containing more than 220,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants. " See online at: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/ (formerly: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/).
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13. Congress Control Numbers occasionally do change for the same entity, but by and large they can be considered "persistent. "
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