LD4P ISNI kickoff, April 29, 2019
ISNI: Areas of interest per institution:
- Alberta: Canadian persons, including French names
- UC San Diego: possibly Sinopia entities as needed; entities in our local digital asset management system
- Duke: local Duke names; possibly unmatched headings in our special collection
- Michigan: video recordings, video games and music is focus for LD4P; also uses in CJK cataloging and Eastern European non-Roman cataloging
- NLM: entities not established elsewhere for their monographic cataloging; possibly for intersections with their LD4P focus on corporate bodies in their serials if original identifiers are needed
- Northwestern: poster and other visual materials
- Penn: entities not established in LC NAF for Sinopia descriptions
- Princeton: focus on non-Roman script names; focused on also comparing workflows that compare NACO work to ISNI
- Harry Ransom Center: archival context for local name authority file; also possible use in Sinopia
- Yale: [no one reported at the 4/29 meeting]
Training walkthrough and brief demo of web interface: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/PCCISNI/PCC+ISNI+documentation+and+training
Assignment: edit or create 5-10 ISNIs over the next week
- Do this in Accept (sandbox)
- Record these in this workspace: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J4Pb0nMZn9yHayzFjaliMKw_sVfrcYGz8TBUH2196Jg/edit?usp=sharing
- Advise making several edits before creating an ISNI from scratch
- Study hall call on May 6 for questions
- Also can send questions to the pccisnipractitioners@library.columbia.edu; preface subject with [LD4P ISNI]
- To subscribe, add your contact info to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i1NqbVcN-FRa7kF2T5OYB6JZb4YtGE7BzpT7e_ycXVo/edit?usp=sharing
Questions:
- Q: Should we keep stats? A: There is no PCC obligation to keep stats at this time. Institutions may choose to keep them internally; for example, this is what Harvard does as a way to track identity management activities and any trends associated with that work.
- Q: News on adding ISNIs to NACO in $024? A: Paul Frank to report on this question at PCC Operations Committee at end of week. We’ll additionally distribute that info to the group.
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