Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electronic Environment [English version presented at the International Conference] = L’authority control nel contesto del controllo bibliografico in ambiente elettronico [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]
| Main Author: | Gorman, Michael |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | it |
| Terbitan: |
, 2003
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/4164/1/gorman_eng.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/4164/2/gorman_ita.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/4164/ |
Daftar Isi:
- There is a sense in which authority control and bibliographic control are coterminous - two sides of the same coin. At the very least, bibliographic control is literally impossible without authority control. Cataloguing cannot exist without standardized access points and authority control is the mechanism by which we achieve the necessary degree of standardization. The same name, title, or subject should always have the same denotation (in natural language or the artificial languages of classification) each time it occurs in a bibliographic record, no matter how many times that may be. We cannot have real library service without a bibliographic architecture and we cannot have that bibliographic architecture without authority control.