[Web4lib] Authors name standardization. Your opinion?

[Karen Coyle]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Meanwhile, the national libraries of Germany and the Czech 
> Republic already use ID numbers for authority files in their 
> national union library catalogs. 
>   
In the U.S. we do have the authority records from Library of Congress, 
and each of those has an identifier. We haven't made use of it, at least 
not in a visible way, in our catalogs. In essence, the authoritative 
name is supposed to be an identifier, it just happens to be a textual 
one. Each authoritative entry in the file is unique.
kc

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