An example of automatic authority control

Abstract

The automatic authority control problem is considered. One possible solution is to use the record linkage approach for authority and bibliographic records. The main aim of this paper is to figure out which concepts and methods are most useful for dealing with our data. An approach based on machine learning method (classification) is considered. A comparative study of different distances and feature sets is made. A study carried out on data of several Russian libraries. The data we deal with are in RUSMARC format which is a variant of UNIMARC popular in Russia.