Mission: This working group is looking at Best Practices for providing a search API to authoritative data. The primary goal is to define a path for moving toward a shared approach for defining and providing search APIs that share a common delivery structure and access mechanism using a standards based approach. This will allow for the creation of shared tools around searching authorities and, as a result, increase usage of authorities. The working group is a mix of providers of authorities, consumers of authorities, and developers who create the tools to facilitate the intersection.
- 2020-06-08 Meeting: Introductions and Brainstorming
- 2020-06-22
- 2020-07-06
- 2020-07-20
- 2020-08-03
- 2020-08-17
- 2020-08-31
- 2020-09-14
- 2020-09-28
Deliverables
TBD
Participants
Authority Providers
- Library of Congress
- Nate Trail (LOC)
- Kevin Ford (LOC)
- OCLC
- Kirk Hess (OCLC)
- Rick Bennett (OCLC)
- John Chapman (OCLC)
- Nancy Fallgren (NIH)
- John Graybeal (Bioportal)
- Tiziana Possemato (Casalini)
- Wikidata
- Lydia Pintscher (Wikidata)
- Jens Ohlig (Wikidata)
- Hetty van Zutphen (ISNI)
Authority Consumers
- Steven Folsom (Cornell)
- Christine Fernsebner Eslao (Harvard)
- Rob Sanderson (Yale)
Developers
- Jeremy Nelson (Stanford)
- Justin Littman (Stanford)
- E. Lynette Rayle (Cornell)
Interested Groups
- LD4 Community
- LD4P Grant
- Samvera Community
Communications
Slack channel: authority_api_wg