[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Authority control enhancements in the works

[Duimovich, George]

Hello Dan & IISH,

This is fantastic news. I've asked our cat's some feedback.

I haven't given it much thought on any specifics but wonder:
- what functionality can be exposed to support libraries working in a multi-lingual authority control environment
- what building blocks can begin to be put in place to set us up for the semweb experience (as web services eventually start popping up like: http://id.loc.gov/authorities etc.).

Don't know if it would be helpful or is already familiar, but IFLA has this document on functional requirements for subject authorities: http://www.ifla.org/node/1297.

Toot Toot,

George

George Duimovich
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan



-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
Sent: June 25, 2010 00:07
To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Authority control enhancements in the works

Hello:

In early July, I plan to spend two weeks working with the team at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) - you may have seen Repke and Marjolein on various Evergreen mailing lists. One of our goals is to come out of our time together with some additional functionality, particularly in the areas of authority control (yay!). Our other, arguably primary goal, is to share as much knowledge as I can with the team at IISH and help cultivate more development talent locally at IISH and, by extension, in the general Evergreen community (double yay!).

For the proposed authority enhancements that we plan to work towards, I've created a Launchpad Blueprint at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/evergreen/+spec/respect-my-authorities ; you'll find the meatier details of the proposed enhancements at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:proposal:authorities

We welcome your thoughts, suggestions, warnings, and if you have full-fledged examples including sample authority and bib records to illustrate your concerns or ideas, those would be fabulous.