TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Trippel, Thorsten
A1  - Zinn, Claus
ED  - McCrae, John P.
ED  - Chiarcos, Christian
ED  - Montiel Ponsoda, Elena
ED  - Declerck, Thierry
ED  - Osenova, Petya
ED  - Hellmann, Sebastian
T1  - Enhancing the quality of metadata by using authority control
T2  - Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Managing, Building and Using Linked Language Resources (LREC 2016 Workshop). 24 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia
N2  - The Component MetaData Infrastructure (CMDI) is the dominant framework for describing language resources according to ISO 24622 (ISO/TC 37/SC 4, 2015). Within the CLARIN world, CMDI has become a huge success. The Virtual Language Observatory (VLO) now holds over 800.000 resources, all described with CMDI-based metadata. With the metadata being harvested from about thirty centres, there is a considerable amount of heterogeneity in the data. In part, there is some use of controlled vocabularies to keep data heterogeneity in check, say when describing the type of a resource, or the country the resource is originating from.  However, when CMDI data refers to the names of persons or organisations, strings are used in a rather uncontrolled manner. Here, the CMDI community can learn from libraries and archives who maintain standardised lists for all kinds of names. In this paper, we advocate the use of freely available  authority  files  that  support  the  unique  identification  of  persons,  organisations,  and  more.   The  systematic  use  of  authority records enhances the quality of the metadata, hence improves the faceted browsing experience in the VLO, and also prepares the sharing of CMDI-based metadata with the data in library catalogues.
KW  - metadata quality
KW  - bibliographic metadata
KW  - authority records
KW  - Metadaten
KW  - Normung
KW  - Normdatei
KW  - Bibliothekskatalog
KW  - Bibliothek
KW  - Component MetaData Infrastructure (CMDI)
KW  - Virtual Language Observatory (VLO)
KW  - Datenqualität
KW  - Bibliografische Daten
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-108572
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-108572
SP  - 59
EP  - 62
PB  - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
CY  - Paris
ER  -