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August 10, 2006

Authorial authoritative provenance

Jon Udell blogs about Lorcan Dempsey's blogging of the OCLC's fuzzy matching service that searches the Library of Congress Name Authority File, finding misspelled authors' names, etc. Jon discovered that his own name was misspelled in the Authority File, and he explains the process for getting it corrected. And, Jon says, we should be making provenance and ways to correct provenance more explicit. [Tags: jon_udell john_udell jon_edull john_youdell libary_of_congress lorcan_dempsey taxonomy everything_is_miscellaneous libraries]

Posted by D. Weinberger at August 10, 2006 08:06 PM

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I think this post would have more authority if you prepended a few phrases explaining how you KNEW that Jon had blogged that Lorcan had blogged that the OCLC etc.

:-)

Posted by: fp | August 11, 2006 08:20 AM

Sorry, "fp," but I'll need two forms of picture ID before I can respond to your comment.

Posted by: David Weinberger [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 11, 2006 09:02 AM

I have had little pictures of my face tattooed on my fingertips. I call these my "digital identity."

Posted by: fp | August 11, 2006 10:37 PM

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