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Automating the construction of authority files in digital libraries: A case study

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The issue of quality control has become increasingly important as more online databases are integrated into digital libraries. This can have a dramatic effect on the search effectiveness of an online system. Authority work, the need to discover and reconcile variant forms of strings in bibliographic entries, will become more difficult. Spelling variants, misspellings, translation and transliteration differences all increase the difficulty of retrieving information. This paper is a case study of our efforts to automate the creation of an authority file for authors' institutional affiliations in the Astrophysics Data System. The techniques surveyed here for the detection and categorization of variant forms have broader applicability and may be used to help automate authority work for other bibliographic fields.

This work supported in part by Dept. of Energy grant no. DE-FG05-95ER25254, NSF grant CDA-9529253, DARPA contract N66001-97-C-8542, and a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program fellowship.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, 22903, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    James C. French, Allison L. Powell & John L. Pfaltz

  2. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, 22903-2475, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Eric Schulman

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French, J.C., Powell, A.L., Schulman, E., Pfaltz, J.L. (1997). Automating the construction of authority files in digital libraries: A case study. In: Peters, C., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1324. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026721

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