Re: Some remaining questions about the use case document

>OCLC Authority Control Service:
>- Which authority files is OCLC making available as a web service?
>- Do you have any references to available documents, if any?
>- At what stage are these services (design, implementation, production)?

OCLC is implementing the service (in their R&D group) to support a UK
research project called EPrints UK to add subject classifications to
eprints, and to think about name authority control as well.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/mswitch/epuk.shtm

It's part of OCLC's SWITCH initiative
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/mswitch/
which includes a bunch of web services to support various
metadata transformations and annotations.

The name authority files they have would include the Library of Congress
Name Authority File (LCNAF) and the British equivalent. I've spoken to
them about the need to be able to include (somehow) locally created
"authority" files such as a university's LDAP database, which they
thought was an interesting problem.

The OCLC research group agreed in principal to collaborate with
SIMILE on building some of these services (e.g. name authority)
but we haven't pursued this since the original discussion a year ago.

Is that enough background for now?

MacKenzie/

Received on Friday, 9 May 2003 13:57:23 UTC