I think this fits in with NACO lite.
Just this week one of my staff members was discussing cataloging
metadata with a music professor who specializes in jazz. She
showed her the entity attributes search in the NAF. She searched
jazz musicians and pulled up 703 jazz musicians and the professor
was thrilled. When she told me the story, I thought how wonderful
it would be if we opened up coding the headings information fields
to the wider community, especially to those in specialized areas.
It seems like any other area of crowd sourcing. People who really
care have both the knowledge and the enthusiasm for the work. I
think many catalogers, on the other hand, see coding attributes as
time consuming and not very useful. If we could get a substantial
body of this data, PCC could perhaps work on use cases. I've
heard that there is some interest in the Blacklight community to
use authority data in discovery systems for example.
Kate
On 10/3/2014 11:33 AM, Beth Picknally Camden wrote:
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Everyone:
It's time for one last strategic theme for discussion. I would
like us to look at Recommendation 3 for the ACI report:
"Significantly expand the ranks of those who can create
identifiers/contribute authority data". They propose two ways of
expanding:
- Expand NACO participation with a “NACO lite” level of
participation
- Endorse the creation of a separate, parallel authority file
to which non-NACO members could make contributions
What are the pros/cons of these options? Should we do both, or
neither? Other thoughts on this recommendations?
-Beth
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