Thanks also for all the additional commentary! I wanted to do a lot better and have more posts mentioned (I had at least 8 I left out), but I have a paper on mapping thesauri for use by interdisciplinary scientists hanging over my head. It, of course, was projected to be finished when I signed up for this gig. Ah well, my life.

I would have liked to add more links to the two discussions (weeding and teens), for one.

I found Ed somewhere on the site, but couldn’t find the last name. That is usually me, though.

I should have added some commentary to those last couple posts, especially the “techie” ones, but see above.

Lorcan explained the VIAF in a few less words than I would have. But having given a presentation called, “Free the Authorities! Linking authority records and online catalog files,” I am somewhat acquainted with (and very interested in) the VIAF project. I also am trying to keep an eye on both OCLC’s and JISC’s Terminology Services work.

Thanks again, Lorcan, for all the helpful info.

My own post on the Fairfax discussion is at:
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001237.html

And, yes, Inkdroid (Ed Summers) has a nice post.

VIAF is a project looking at how one might bring together different national authority files. It may make use of the technologies Ed discusses here but the two are parallel if related activites.