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> 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. > =========== > > 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 >