A Cooperative “Identities Hub”

Amanda Hill announced on the Names Project Blog that OCLC is going to prototype a cooperative Identities Hub. Among the reasons for this project:
The current LC/NACO contributor model has severe limitations, both in who is enabled to add and edit authority records and the rules that constrain what information can be entered (even if the cataloger [...]

Project to control headings in WorldCat

Back in the spring OCLC began a project to control headings in Worldcat.  In his blog Outgoing Thom Hickey described this project here.  Among the reasons behind the project:
Getting more of WorldCat’s headings linked to authority records has a number of benefits.  It gives us a chance to merge some variant forms of headings and makes [...]

Subject headings derived from authority records

On Everybody’s Libraries John Mark Ockerbloom describes a project to add subject headings to the records for an online book collection.  The collection had brief records that lacked subject access, but did have call numbers.  Recognizing that subject authority records frequently include call number ranges, he created a program that used the call number to search authority [...]

IFLA discussion on FRSAR

Over on The FRBR Blog, William Denton reports on the Working Group on FRSAR meeting. The section most relevant to this blog was:
Glenn Patton of OCLC was at the table to discuss FRAD, he chairing the WG on that, and FRAD took up the first hour of the meeting. He said they’d made some changes [...]

International Society for Knowledge Organization 2008 conference

Amanda Hill reports on ISKO 2008 here.  It was the first I had heard of the Names Project, which I see I will have to follow, given these comments:
The questions at the end of my talk included one from a librarian who took exception to the Names project’s aim of not having a preferred form [...]

Karen Coyle’s fall 2007 post on name authority control

When I had bookmarked this post to come back to, I hadn’t noticed that it appeared last September.  However, an issue I just saw raised on AUTOCAT reminded me that I hadn’t come back and commented.  In her post, Coyle focuses on the following issues:
There are some problems with the current method used by libraries to [...]