Issue 3 - Trust Mechanisms in OCLC Authority Control Service

Hi team,

please can I have some comments, particularly from MacKenzie, on this issue
from Dave Reynolds. Specifically, do the PIs agree with Dave that this is
should be part of the OCLC use case?

thanks, M

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Summary: Trust mechanisms in OCLC Authority Control Service
Raised By: Dave Reynolds
Status: open
Description: 

The OCLC Authority Control Service use case is interesting. I wonder is this
could be framed as a test case for trust mechanisms. Supposing that entry
validation against authority files could be made much more decentralized.
Local
communities would be free to adopt small, locally controlled authority files
and
services. Entries could be checked against those as well as the central or
global authority services. Such entries would include, in their provenance
information, the authority files used (perhaps with an optional
cryptographic
signature). Thus one could support multiple alternative field values with
different levels of authority, future mappings between overlapping authority
files can then be applied retrospectively. Seems like there could be a value
to
users of having local, easy to update authority files for some fields.

Received on Wednesday, 21 May 2003 08:52:04 UTC