Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electrionic Environment

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This text defines and discusses the role and application of authority control and vocabulary control in modern cataloging. It explores the purpose and use of authority records and authority files, as well as the creation of these records and their data sources. The abstract also critically examines metadata schemes, highlighting their numerous shortcomings, and notes the relationship between Dublin Core and the MARC family of standards, describing the former as simple and the latter as complex and precise. It identifies comprehensiveness and a lack of ambiguity as desirable elements for indexing and retrieval systems, linking these qualities to the practice of authority control. The text also addresses the challenges of cataloging electronic resources and proposes an international initiative within the framework of Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC). This initiative would establish a global descriptive cataloging system based on an international name authority file, urging for immed

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