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Authority Descriptions

AGRIS Vocabulariesclassifies

disambiguates

Resources

describes

Disambiguate metadata, collocate

resources, add consistency, e.g. FAO

Authority Description Concept Scheme

Search for resources, discover

related resources, e.g. AGRIS

Access data, information,

knowledge, e.g. FAO

Publications

Aggregate records, relate records, navigate concepts, associate terms across languages, e.g. AGROVOC

classifies

extends

extends

FAO Authority Description Concept Scheme for Bibliographic Data

FAO of the United Nations Imma SubiratsSarah Dister2010

Authority Control for Bibliographic Data

Context: library information systemsUsed for: access points to bibliographic recordsCorporate bodies, Conferences, Projects, Journal titles…

Definition: Technique/process of assigning a unique form of name and the use of cross-references from obsolete and related forms

Scope: To bring all the works of a bibliographical entity together in one place by selecting a single form of name

FAO Authority Control System

WhyFAO OA Repository project → 170,000 records of legacy data managed by a flat (no cross-references) authority control system↓Features of new Authority Control System • Concept based• Multilingual• URIs

Methodology

Example

UN, New York (USA) - FAODOC formURI http://aims.fao.org/aos/corporatebody/c_1020 Label in English United NationsLabel in French Nations Unies *Label in Spanish Naciones Unidas *Label in Arabic المتحدة * األممLabel in Chinese 联合国 * Acronym in English UN *Acronym in Spanish ONU *Obsolete NoCountry http://www.fao.org/aims/geopolitical.owl#United_States_of_America * * City New York *State NY * FAOTerm Code 49066 *Variant Spelling in English UN, New York (USA) * * *

Content

isSpatiallyIncludedInisSpatiallyIncludedIn

isPublishedByisPublishedBy

isOtherLanguageEditionOfisOtherLanguageEditionOfisFollowedBy/FollowsisFollowedBy/Follows

JOURNAL CONTENT MODEL Example

http://202.73.13.50:54123/authoritycontrolv10/http://202.73.13.50:54123/authoritycontrolv10/

Conclusions

Arbitrary Politically sensitive Expensive

Sharing Standardization Simplification Consistency Reliability

But properly implemented, the authority control provides…

A I M S

Recommendations to produce LOD enabled bibliographical data

Marcia ZengKent State University, Ohio, USA

Imma SubiratsFAO of the UN

What is about?

Encoding recommendations for the exchange of metadata between data providers and VOA3R platform

Target users: AGRIS Data Providers, but not onlyVocabularies• Dublin Core• Dcterms• AgMES• BIBO• FOAF

Identification of group of properties

A I M SA I M S

1 Title Information2 Responsible Body3 Physical Characteristics4 Location (hardcopy holding or file path)5 Subject6 Description of content7 Intellectual property 8 Usage 9 Relation between documents10 Relation between agents11 Meta-metadata

Groups & Properties Identification

A I M S

1. Title Information

2. Responsible Body. Creator

Thank you for your attention

mzeng@kent.eduSarah.dister@fao.org

Imma.subirats@fao.org