Creating and Using a Glacier Authority Index to Document Climate Change

作者
Erik Radio, Katie Fletcher & Athea Merredyth
出版地
2020
內容

Authority lists or indices are key components of cataloging and metadata work as they provide critical anchoring points to disambiguate between various entities. This article describes the creation of a glacier index at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Snow and Ice Data Center which required synthesizing various data sources into a comprehensive list. This paper explores the background of this project, criteria used to justify the creation of the index, the complications inherent in creating a data source for two different types of memory institutions, publishing that data in Wikidata, and the impacts the index has for describing aspects of climate change.

刊名
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
關鍵字
Authority control, authority data, glacier data, archives, digital collections
網址連結
發布日期:2020年05月28日 最後更新:2020年05月29日