Authority Control in the 21st Century: An Invitational Conference

Authority Control in Digital Libraries

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Table of Contents

• Authority Control in Digital Libraries
• Presentation outline
• Digital libraries
• Distinguishing features of digital library collections
• Distinguishing features of digital library systems
• Digital library configuration A
• Digital library configuration B
• Digital library configuration C
• Registry collection entry
• Implications for Authority Control
• Collection language content
• UMDL user profiling
• UMDL collection search
• UMDL collection search (continued)
• Challenges of profiling and registry searching
• Cross-collection searching
• A possible solution
• Another possible solution
• Borrowing control from collections that have it
• Authority control implications
• Authority control in digital libraries

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