A Workshop on the Compilation, Maintenance, and Dissemination of Taxonomic Authority Files |
Workshop Proceedings
| Welcome and Introduction |
| Opening Remarks | |
| Stanley D. Blum — California Academy of Sciences (PI, Taxonomic Authority Files Workshop); and |
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| John N. Mitchell — Cooperative Cataloging Team, Library of
Congress (Chair, Task Force on a Forum for Natural History Cataloging Issues, Cataloging and Classification Section, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services). |
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| Introduction | |
| Stanley D. Blum — California Academy of Sciences | |
| Session I: | Examples Of Taxonomic Authority Compilation Projects |
| The Catalog Of Fishes Project. | |
| William Eschmeyer — Curator, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. | |
| Discussion | |
| The IOPI Global Plant Checklist Project. | |
| Nancy Morin — Executive Director, American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta. | |
| Discussion | |
| The Integrated Taxonomic Information System. | |
| Roy McDiarmid — USGS-BRD / National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. | |
| Discussion | |
| The Combined Plant Name Index: A Cooperatively Developed and Replicated Database of Plant Names. [on ANBG server] | |
| Greg Whitbread — Australian National Botanic Garden, Canberra Sally Hinchcliffe — Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Noel Cross — Harvard University Herbaria Peter F. Stevens — Harvard University Herbaria Eimear nic Lughadha — Royal Botanic Garden, Kew |
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| Discussion | |
| The Species 2000 Programme. | |
| Frank A. Bisby — Centre for Plant Diversity & Systematics, University of Reading | |
| Discussion | |
| General Discussion (I) | |
| Economic and Practical Aspects of Constructing and Maintaining Insect Name Authority Files: Nomina Insecta Nearctica and the ICIPE Insect Biodiversity Project. | |
| Robert Poole — Entomological Information Services. | |
| Discussion | |
| The Economics Of Authority File Compilation: A Perspective From A Self-Sustaining Literature Indexing Enterprise. | |
| Michael N. Dadd — Managing Director, BIOSIS-UK. | |
| Discussion | |
| Session II: | A Framework For Authority Control — From Shared Vocabularies To The Cooperative Cataloging Of Common Data Objects |
| A Bird's Eye View of Authority Control in Cataloging. | |
| Karen Calhoun — Head of Cataloging, Central Technical Services, Cornell University. | |
| Discussion | |
| The Program For Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). | |
| Beacher J. E. Wiggins — Director for Cataloging, Library of Congress. | |
| Discussion | |
| An Overview Of Training Activities In The Program For Cooperative Cataloging. | |
| Joan Swanekamp — Chief Catalog Librarian, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. | |
| Discussion | |
| General Discussion (II) | |
| The State of Cooperative Authority
Work in the Library Community. [ A SOLICITED PAPER, NOT PRESENTED FOR LACK OF TIME ] |
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| John Riemer — Assistant Head, Cataloging Department, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia. | |
| Session III: | Authorities, Gazetteers, and Thesauri |
| Overview Of Library Authority File Record Structure, Format, Content & Processes. | |
| John Riemer — Assistant Head, Cataloging Department, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia. | |
| Discussion | |
| Building Georeferenced Collections: Gazetteer Services. [on ADL server] | |
| Linda Hill — Alexandria Digital Library Project, University of California, Santa Barbara. | |
| Discussion | |
| NISO Z39.19: Standard for Structure and Organization of Information Retrieval Thesauri. | |
| Jessica L. Milstead — The JELEM Company, Brookfield, CT. | |
| Discussion | |
| Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): A Multi-Thesaurus System. | |
| Stuart Nelson — Head, Medical Subject Headings, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD. | |
| Discussion | |
| Session IV: | Data Structures for Taxonomic Names and Classifications |
| Names, Taxa, and Information. | |
| Walter Berendsohn — Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, GERMANY. | |
| Discussion | |
| Relational Data Structures For Extensible Thesauri. | |
| Randy Ballew — Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley. | |
| Also see the more recent paper: "Relational Data Structures for Implementing Thesauri" by Randy Ballew, Thomas Duncan, and Mike Blasingame. (05/03/99) Acrobat PDF (208 KB) | |
| General Discussion (III-IV) | |
| Session V: | Technologies for Accessing and Replicating Authorities |
| Accessing And Distributing Authority Files. | |
| Gary Strawn — Northwestern University Library. | |
| Discussion | |
| Java And Distributed Object Technologies For Replicating Data: Sharing Authoritative Records Of Plant-Name Authors In The Combined Plant Name Index. [on ANBG server] | |
| Noel Cross — Harvard University Herbaria, and Sally Hinchcliffe — Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. |
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| Discussion | |
| General Discussion (IV) | |
| Final Discussion |