Why authority control?
 Help the user find what they are looking for
Purposes of authority
control
Functional
Requirements for
Authority Data (FRAD)
User tasks
 Find
 Identify
 Contextualize
 Justify
‫المتطلبات الوظيفية‬
‫للبيانات االستنادية‬
‫تنفيذ المهام من طرف المستخدمين‬
‫العثور‬
‫التحديد السياق‬
‫وضعه في السياق‬
‫التبرير‬
Entities
Attributes
 Located in Muscat, Oman
 Built 1995-2001
Born December 11, 1911
Born in Cairo, Egypt
Novelist
Authorized Access Point
 Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, |d 1911-2006
 Umm Kulthūm, |d 1898-1975
 Al Jazeera (Television network)
 League of Arab States
 Jāmiʻ al-Sulṭān Qābūs al-Kabīr (Muscat, Oman)
Data elements under
authority control
Collocation
Collocation
Camel
Velbloud
Camelus bactrianus
ግመል
Dromedary
‫جمل‬
‫ابل‬
‫ناقة‬
Altweltkamele
ऊँट
Unta
Тэмээн
Disambiguation
‫احمد سليم‬
 Salīm, Aḥmad
 Salīm Aḥmad, 1927-1983
 Salīm, Aḥmad, 1945 Salīm, Aḥmad, D.
 Salīm, Aḥmad (Illustrator)
Name Authority File (NAF)
Subject Authority File (SAF)
 Administered by the Library of Congress
 NACO and SACO programs
 Membership requirements
 Funnels
 Arabic NACO Funnel
 MELA SACO Funnel
Arabic NACO Funnel
 Founded 1997
 2013- Head, Iman Dagher, UCLA
Arabic names in the NAF
 RDA
 Authorized access point is always in romanization
 All Arabic script versions are considered variants,
there is no parallel version of the authorized access
point in Arabic script
Parts of an NAF record
Parts of an NAF record
Parts of an NAF record
Parts of an NAF record
Parts of an NAF record
Parts of an NAF record
Indexing attributes
Indexing attributes
SAF record
‫‪SAF‬‬
‫الخنجر العماني ‪ :‬أصوله‪ ،‬صناعته‪ ،‬انواعه‬
‫‪Daggers--Oman--History‬‬
‫‪ Subjects:‬‬
‫المراكب العربية ‪ :‬تاريخها وأنواعها‬
‫‪Dhows‬‬
‫‪ Subjects:‬‬
Modern names
Classical names
Corporate names
Corporate names
Name changes
Pseudonyms / Name
changes
Pseudonyms
Isssues with Arab names
well-known in English
 Avicenna, |d 980-1037
‫ابن سينا‬
 Averroës, |d 1126-1198
‫‏ابن رشد‬
 Hussein, |c King of
Jordan, |d 1935-1999
‫ ملك األردن‬،‫حسين‬
Issues with Arab names
‫‏‏السيد‬/ ‫سيد‬
Quṭb, Sayyid, |d 1906-1966
Afghānī, Jamāl al-Dīn, |d
1838-1897
Ḥijāb, al-Sayyid ʻAbd alFattāḥ
‫سيد قطب‬
‫سيد جمال الدين الحسينى‬
‫االفغانى‬
‫حجاب السيد عبد الفتاح‬
Issues with Arab names
Normalization
Sālim, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ
‫ عبد الفتاح‬،‫سالم‬
SALIM, ABD AL FATTAH
Salīm, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ
SALIM, ABD AL FATTAH
‫ عبد الفتاح‬،‫سليم‬
Issues with Arab names
‫كريم‬
 Karīm or Kurayyim
‫دسوقي‬
 Dasuqi or Disuqi or Dusuqi
‫‪Issues with Arabic names‬‬
‫أبي الفضل أحمد بن منصور قرطام الحسيني المالكي‬
‫الشاذلي الفلسطيني‬
‫الشهيد السيد الحسن السيد علي القبانچي‬
Issues with Arab names
Conflicts for personal
names
 Date of birth and/or death (RDA 9.19.1.3)
 Fuller form of name (RDA 9.5)
 Sālim, Ibrāhīm ǂq (Ibrāhīm Aḥmad )
 Title of the person (another term indicative of rank,
honor, or office) (RDA 9.19.1.6)
 Profession or occupation (RDA 9.16)
 Ali, Muhammad ǂc (Journalist)
 Period of activity of the person (RDA 9.3.4)
 Qināwī, Masʻūd ibn Ḥasan, |d active 18th century
Conflicts for corporate
bodies
 Place associated with the corporate body (RDA 11.3)
 Matḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī (Alexandria, Egypt)
 Date of establishment (RDA 11.4)
 Institution associated with the corporate body (RDA
11.5)
 African Security Project (Nigerian Institute of
International Affairs)
 Other designation (RDA 11.7)
 Aflām Jamāl al-Laythī lil-Sīnimā wa-al-Vīdiyū (Firm)
Future of authority control
 Faceting
 Globalization
 Linked data
 “things not strings”
 Authority control outside the library world
Globalization
 Languages, scripts, and cultures affect how people
view names and topics
 Name formulation designed to work in a specific
context won’t work in others
Virtual International
Authority File (VIAF)
Virtual International
Authority File (VIAF)
Linked Data
“Things not strings”
 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81076793
 http://viaf.org/viaf/138790748
 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doha&oldi
d=656443157
 Doha
 Dawḥah (Qatar)
 ‫الدوحة‬
Linked Data
“Things not strings”
|0 http://viaf.org/viaf/62350636
<bf:associatedAgent>
<bf:Person>
<bf:hasGNDLink rdf:resource="http://dnb.info/gnd/118858122" />
<bf:label>Buḫārī, Muḥammad Ibn-Ismāʿīl, al-</bf:label>
<bf:resourceRole
rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut" />
</bf:Person>
</bf:associatedAgent>
FAST
Faceted Application of Subject
Terminology
Disambiguation
Disambiguation
Disambiguation
By area of
activity
Then by country
ORCID
Open Researcher and Contributor ID
Thank you!