2018 NETSL Annual Spring Conference
New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL)
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, April 2, 2018
Description
Full description: As library catalogers look ahead to linked data changing descriptive practices, we will need tools, training and guidelines to help them transition from traditional authority control to creating and using globally shared identifiers. The Program for Cooperative Cataloging has been for decades a key source of leadership, policy, training and documentation to guide library cataloging practices. The PCC's ISNI Pilot continues that history by joining twelve early-adopter libraries with the work of several PCC Standing Committees and Task Groups to create a pathway for the library community to engage in Identity Management with ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier). In this panel presentation, metadata practitioners from Brown and Harvard will discuss differences between identity management and traditional authority work, describing challenges as well as experiences some call liberating! Come to hear about lessons learned so far in the ISNI Pilot, steps being taken to generalize benefits from the Pilot, the difference and complementary nature of ISNI and ORCID, and how the work of the PCC ISNI Pilot hopes to create a pathway for libraries' broad involvement in creation and management of ISNI identifiers for persons and organizations, connecting our work to metadata from other expert communities on the web.
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