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- Title
A Study Of Authority Control in Spanish University Repositories.
- Authors
Almuzara, Leticia Barrionuevo; Alvite Díez, M.Luisa; Bravo, Blanca Rodríguez
- Abstract
This paper examines the current state of authority control development in Spanish university repositories. As a decade has now gone by since the initiation of the first projects for institutional repositories in Spain, it would seem a suitable time to draw attention to authority control, an element of the first rank in evaluating the consistency and integrity of systems for recovering bibliographic information. The work is focused on examining the implementation of authorities in twenty-six Spanish university repositories, taking into account the information provided by the standardization experts working in them. The study considers the responses of the coordinators for these digital collections using a set of analytic criteria set out in the study. The handling of authorities in the group of university repositories studied may be described as uneven. Greater interest may be observed in controlling author entries, with laxer solutions for authority control of subjects. It suggests the need to establish effective policies for the management of authorities by means of cooperative efforts permitting the building up of corpora of entries for authorities that would aid the processes of cataloguing, metadata creation, and information retrieval in systems based on syntactic and semantic interoperability in which manual intervention should be minimal.
- Subjects
SPAIN; AUTHORITY files (Information retrieval); ACADEMIC libraries; LIBRARY rules &; regulations; INSTITUTIONAL repositories; CATALOGING standards
- Publication
Knowledge Organization, 2012, Vol 39, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
0943-7444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0943-7444-2012-2-95-1