> The NAF (Name/National Authority File) is still one important database
>> > that we are missing any kind of good machine access to, I believe.
> 
>> > Agreed.  As part of our research project we have enhanced some of the
>> vocabulary data in the service to provide mappings and links between
>> vocabularies.  One issue we noticed with FAST was that many of the mapped
>> terms were not being linked.  We tracked this back to the term being in NAF
>> rather than in LCSH.  So to make the FAST data more usable we would have to
>> include the entire LC authority file, both names and subjects.  It is
>> something we are looking into at the moment... Andy.
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> 
> Question1: who OWNS the NAF/LCSH files that needs to be reimbursed?
> Question2: does OCLC or FAST (etc.) pay that owner for NAF and LCSH, and their
> updates? 
> Assumption: OCLC get NAF and LCSH, and their updates from LC/NACO for free
> (Roy, Andy, correct me if I¹m wrong)
> Proposal: on the same basis OCLC get¹s these files, CODE4LIB could get them as
> well
> Rationale: given opensource technology (for ex. Apache Solr 1.3) and software,
> CODE4LIB could also explore options for controlled vocabularies.
Ya¹aqov 

 
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